European history of cleansing predicts ghettoized Bosnian Muslims would be destroyed
Evidence
Since the First Crusade in 1096, non-Christian communities in Europe have been subject to annihilation. Throughout the Crusades, Jewish communities were attacked and burned, visited with the kind of atrocities that have occurred in BosniaHerzegovina. In 1492, exactly five hundred years before the beginning of the attack on Bosnia, Queen Isabella of Spain ordered her kingdom “cleansed” of its Jewish population. In 1609, those to be “cleansed” were the Moriscos, all those who kept the customs of the Muslims of Spain, whether or not they were practicing Muslims. A new word, “pogrom,” came into our vocabulary to explain the fate of Jewish communities in eastern Europe for several centuries. Then there was the Holocaust. To advocate the driving of Bosnian Muslims into a Muslim state surrounded by two heavily armed nationalist armies that have tasted blood is to advocate, if a ruthlessly consistent European history tells us anything, the probable destruction of that people. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 386
Categorization
- XREF: The historical ‘cleansing’ genealogy — 1096, 1492, 1609, pogroms, Holocaust — links to earlier chapters’ treatment of the Christoslav myth and cikoslaw.
Related
- Croat and Serb militias jointly dynamited mosques across eastern Bosnia (similarity 0.83)
- The Bosnian conflict divided people on religious identity despite shared language and Slavic descent (similarity 0.79)
- Tudjman framed destroying Islamic culture as a Europeanizing mission (similarity 0.79)
- The destruction campaign attempted to erase an existing Bosnian culture (similarity 0.79)
- Croat forces destroyed Orthodox churches but not systematically like Serbs (similarity 0.78)
- Bosnian culture is multilayered across multiple religions and ethnicities (similarity 0.78)
- Milosevic and Tudjman courted Europe by framing genocide as European defense (similarity 0.78)