Croat nationalists blamed Communist recognition of Muslim nationhood for the Bosnian war

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As Tudjman continued: … The decision of the C[ommunist] P[arty] on recognising the Muslims as a separate nation was not in the Croatian national interest, and not even Khomenei or Gaddafi agreed with it. If the Communists had not made that error, today we most probably would not have had such a war in Bosnia, and maybe this entire tragedy, which we lived through these past years, would have been different! — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1077

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• SHARE: Tudjman’s remark that even Khomeini and Gaddafi opposed recognizing Bosnian Muslims as a nation is a strikingly counterintuitive historical detail worth sharing with anyone interested in the Yugoslav wars.