The anti-Muslim genocide reused the Christ-killer myth once aimed at Jews

Evidence

At the heart of the religious nationalism used to motivate and justify the assault on Bosnia, and on Bosnian Muslims in particular, is the same myth of the Christ killer that was exploited in the past to instigate attacks on Jews. How Muslims, a people whose religion began six centuries after Jesus, could have been singled out for genocide as Christ killers and race traitors is a tale this book seeks to tell. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 50

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: how a six-hundred-year-old anti-Jewish canard was retrofitted onto Muslims, showing religious scapegoating as a transferable template rather than group-specific hatred.

Related

• The Bosnia genocide was religious in four distinct, compounding senses (similarity 0.85)
• The Christ-killer charge is a theological problem for all Christian traditions (similarity 0.83)
• Serb nationalist ideology fuses religious identity with race-traitor charges against Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Serb extremists drew direct inspiration from religious epics glorifying Muslim extermination (similarity 0.80)
• Resisting genocide requires first confronting one’s own traditions’ crimes (similarity 0.80)
• A retrieved Serbian tradition could recast Kosovo’s traitor as the genocidaires themselves (similarity 0.79)
• Serb Orthodox clergy actively supported the genocide and ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.79)
• Western betrayal of Bosnia strengthened the very Islamic extremism it feared (similarity 0.79)
• The 1989 Kosovo commemoration fused Christ-killer myth with anti-Muslim and anti-Albanian hatred (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Semitic Christ-killer imagery is easily sourced while its Muslim counterpart is not (similarity 0.79)
• Bosnian Muslims were selected for genocide on religious grounds with Western acquiescence (similarity 0.78)
• Balkanism falsely frames Balkan violence as fated by history or blood (similarity 0.78)
• Kosovo mythology transforms religious identity into a racialist ideology (similarity 0.78)
• Western anti-Muslim and Islamic anti-Western narratives reinforce each other (similarity 0.78)