Ideological framing can make a commentator side with perpetrators over victims.

Evidence

An insight into Ye’or’s own sentiments regarding these events was contained in a 1994 interview, in which she compared the Balkan wars to the ‘wars of liberation of the Christian dhimmis’ and explicitly described the Serbs as ‘the continuation of the many rebellions over the centuries by Serbian resistance-movements’. At a time when Bosnian Muslims were being killed, raped and deported in their tens of thousands, Ye’or’s major anxiety was that any future Muslim states in the Balkans might become ‘points of attraction for immigrants, who by obtaining a European nationality, will then be able to circulate freely in Europe’. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 44

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A stark illustration of how a totalizing civilizational framework inverts moral sympathies during a genocide.
• XREF: connects to: Superordinate framing reduces perpetrators’ guilt and raises undue forgiveness expectations. — Johanna Ray Vollhardt and Michelle Sinayobye Twali, Emotion-Based Reconciliation Requires…, 53