Christoslavism defined Slavic Muslims as traitors outside the nation

Evidence

Christoslavism-the premise that Slavs are by essence Christian and that conversion to another religion is a betrayal of the people or race-was critical to the genocidal ideology being developed in 1989. Christoslavism places Slavic Muslims and any Christian who would tolerate them in the position of the Judas figure of Kosovo, Vuk Brankovic. It sets the Slavic Muslims outside the boundaries of nation, race, and people. As portrayed in The Mountain Wreath, it demonstrates what can be done to those defined as nonpeople and what is, under certain circumstances, a religious duty and a sacred, cleansing act. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 166

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the key term ‘Christoslavism’ that frames the entire book’s argument.
• XREF: Connects to the complacency-and-righteousness articles already in the library about how moral frameworks manufacture permission for atrocity. — connects to: Slavic Muslims were redefined as Turkish invaders through religious nationalism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 124

Related

• Nationalist myths coalesced into an ideology defining Slavs as innately Christian (similarity 0.86)
• Conflicting identity criteria trapped Slavic Muslims as inescapable traitors (similarity 0.86)
• Slavic Muslims were redefined as Turkish invaders through religious nationalism (similarity 0.84)
• Serb nationalist ideology fuses religious identity with race-traitor charges against Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• Serbian nationalist ideology treats religious conversion as a change of race (similarity 0.83)
• Both Serb and Croat nationalists shared the view that Slavic Muslims converted from cowardice (similarity 0.83)
• A professional biologist converted religious conversion into a genetic defect theory (similarity 0.81)
• Kosovo mythology transforms religious identity into a racialist ideology (similarity 0.81)