Serb Church leaders applied global anti-Muslim stereotypes to Bosnian Muslims

Evidence

Metropolitan Christopher, a Serb Church leader in the United States, gave a list of stereotypes about Muslims, implying they were all like the radical followers of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. When someone asked him whether Muslims in Bosnia were Sunnites or Shiites, he said: “I don’t know very much about Muslims in Bosnia, but they are Muslims.” — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 229

Categorization

• XREF: The template by which a local, syncretic, lived Islam is erased by a globalized stereotype mirrors how colonial administrators flattened indigenous religions — and how the ‘modest dress’ essay shows moral panics flattening local practice into global categories.

Related

• Bosnian government’s religious diversity was erased by the phrase Muslim-dominated (similarity 0.80)
• The Muslim label trapped Bosnians between Western and Islamic stereotyping (similarity 0.78)