Bosnian pluralism directly contradicts the crusader worldview nationalists desire
Evidence
Sarajevo was at the center of such a pluralistic culture. Its mosques, synagogues, Catholic and Orthodox churches stand side by side. Its people are skilled at languages and navigating the concourses of differing traditions-as many discovered when they visited the city for the Winter Olympics in 1984. BosniaHerzegovina could be a bridge between the increasingly polarized spheres of East and West and could play an important role in preventing a war between the majority Christian world and the majority Islamic world, a reversion to the Crusades. It is the polarized world of the Crusades that religious nationalists presuppose and desire and that the complex culture of BosniaHerzegovina contradicts. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 378
Categorization
- XREF: The claim that nationalist genocide presupposes a polarized civilizational frame connects to the book’s earlier analysis of sacralization of land and the Christoslav myth.
Related
- Bosnian culture is multilayered across multiple religions and ethnicities (similarity 0.83)
- Bosnian Muslims suffered uniquely methodical persecution from both nationalist sides (similarity 0.80)
- Bosnian ethnic identities formed through shifting, multidirectional conversions (similarity 0.80)
- Bosnian identity is civic and multi-religious, not ethnoreligious (similarity 0.79)
- Denying Bosnia’s culture logically implies America has no culture either (similarity 0.78)