Serb nationalist ideology fuses religious identity with race-traitor charges against Muslims

Evidence

The religious ideology of the violence was complex. It was at once part of a modern surge in religious militancy after the cold war, a reappearance of a Serbian nineteenth-century ideology that constructs an “age-old antagonism” between Muslim and Christian in which the Muslim is a race traitor, and a new manifestation in a history of assaults on non-Christian populations in Europe grounded in manipulation of the Christ-killer charge. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 246

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the composite structure of an ideology that blends post-cold-war militancy, nineteenth-century Serbian racial construction, and the Christ-killer charge.
• XREF: connects to: Slavic Muslims were redefined as Turkish invaders through religious nationalism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 124

Related

• Slavic Muslims were redefined as Turkish invaders through religious nationalism (similarity 0.85)
• Both Serb and Croat nationalists shared the view that Slavic Muslims converted from cowardice (similarity 0.85)
• Bosnian Muslims suffered uniquely methodical persecution from both nationalist sides (similarity 0.84)
• Serbian nationalist ideology treats religious conversion as a change of race (similarity 0.84)
• Christoslavism defined Slavic Muslims as traitors outside the nation (similarity 0.83)
• Kosovo mythology transforms religious identity into a racialist ideology (similarity 0.83)
• Militants engineered revenge attacks to fabricate proof of ethnic incompatibility (similarity 0.82)
• Serb extremists drew direct inspiration from religious epics glorifying Muslim extermination (similarity 0.82)
• Religious violence in the post-cold war era is a global, not Balkan, force (similarity 0.82)
• The anti-Muslim genocide reused the Christ-killer myth once aimed at Jews (similarity 0.82)
• A retrieved Serbian tradition could recast Kosovo’s traitor as the genocidaires themselves (similarity 0.81)
• Nationalist myths coalesced into an ideology defining Slavs as innately Christian (similarity 0.81)
• Conflicting identity criteria trapped Slavic Muslims as inescapable traitors (similarity 0.81)
• Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.81)
• The Bosnian conflict divided people on religious identity despite shared language and Slavic descent (similarity 0.80)