Religious violence in the post-cold war era is a global, not Balkan, force
Evidence
A resurgence in religious violence has caught the post-cold war world off guard. From the subways of Tokyo to the ruins of a mosque in India, from the World Trade Center and the federal building in Oklahoma City to a Jerusalem rally for the Israeli prime minister, religious militants have transgressed the boundaries of civil society in pursuit of their aims. Bosnians have faced the most brutal religious violence unleashed in the aftermath of the cold war, but the forces that assaulted Bosnia are not due to “age-old antagonisms” peculiar to Balkan peoples, as the cliche would have it. They are forces with us all. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 49
Related
- Western betrayal of Bosnia strengthened the very Islamic extremism it feared (similarity 0.83)
- The Bosnia genocide was religious in four distinct, compounding senses (similarity 0.83)
- Serb nationalist ideology fuses religious identity with race-traitor charges against Muslims (similarity 0.82)
- Balkanism falsely frames Balkan violence as fated by history or blood (similarity 0.81)
- Western anti-Muslim and Islamic anti-Western narratives reinforce each other (similarity 0.81)
- Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.81)
- Croat and Serb militias jointly dynamited mosques across eastern Bosnia (similarity 0.81)
- Bosnian Muslims suffered uniquely methodical persecution from both nationalist sides (similarity 0.80)
- Croat forces destroyed Orthodox churches but not systematically like Serbs (similarity 0.79)
- Bosnian Muslims were selected for genocide on religious grounds with Western acquiescence (similarity 0.78)