Bosnian Serb nationalists persecuted Muslims who shared their language as racial aliens

Evidence

Serbs, in practice this kind of assimilationism was no longer possible or relevant. In the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina that broke out in full in 1992, there was no policy of forced conversion. Serb nationalists in Bosnia- Hercegovina killed, persecuted and expelled Muslims who spoke their language, much as the Serbian regime killed, persecuted and expelled Kosovo Albanians who spoke an entirely different language. They simultaneously viewed Muslims as a racially alien element, while portraying them in their propaganda as part of an international, global threat to Christian Europe— much as antisemites have viewed Jews. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1073

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the antisemitism chapter’s pattern of viewing Jews as both racial aliens and global conspirators; connects to the book’s core antisemitism-Islamophobia thesis.