A professional biologist converted religious conversion into a genetic defect theory
Evidence
At the height of the “ethnic cleansing” against Bosnian Muslims, Plavsic announced that “it was genet ically deformed material that embraced Islam. And now, of course, with each successive generation this gene simply becomes concentrated. It gets worse and worse. It simply expresses itself and dictates their style of thinking and behaving, which is rooted in their genes.” … Her sudden conversion exemplifies the power and function of the Kosovo-based ideology of Christoslavism examined in this book. Christoslavism maintains that Slavs are Christian by nature, that conversion to another religion entails or presupposes a transformation or deformation of the Slavic race, and that all Muslims in Yugoslavia (whether ethnic Slavs or Albanians) have transformed themselves into Turks and are personally responsible for the death of the Christ-prince Lazar at the Serbian Golgotha (the battle of Kosovo) and for the pollution of the Slavic race. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 28
Categorization
- XREF: Plavsic’s genetic theory of religion parallels Nazi race science and other pseudoscientific biologizations of identity.
Related
- Kosovo mythology transforms religious identity into a racialist ideology (similarity 0.82)
- Christoslavism defined Slavic Muslims as traitors outside the nation (similarity 0.81)
- Serbian nationalist ideology treats religious conversion as a change of race (similarity 0.81)
- Bosnian ethnic identities formed through shifting, multidirectional conversions (similarity 0.79)
- Nationalist myths coalesced into an ideology defining Slavs as innately Christian (similarity 0.78)