The United States was the sole non-Muslim power aiding the Bosnian Muslims
Evidence
In August 1995 the foreign ministers of nine OIC countries declared the U.N. arms embargo invalid, and in September the fifty-two members of the OIC approved arms and economic assistance for the Bosnians. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 790 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
The wealthy states of the ummah, led by Saudi Arabia and Iran, contributed immense amounts of money to develop Bosnian military strength. In the early months of the war in 1992, Saudi government and private sources provided
150 million in aid to the Bosnians, ostensibly for humanitarian purposes but widely acknowledged to have been used largely for military ones. Reportedly the Bosnians got160 million worth of weapons during the first two years of the war. During 1993-1995 the Bosnians received an additional300 million for arms from the Saudis plus500 million in purportedly humanitarian aid. Iran was also a major source of military assistance, and according to American officials, spent hundreds of millions of dollars a year on arms for the Bosnians. According to another report, 80 percent to 90 percent of a total of $2 billion worth of arms that went into Bosnia during the early years of the fighting went to the Muslims. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 793 (#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Foreign Muslim aid decisively transformed the Bosnian army into a winning force; American moral framing, not strategy, drove its anomaly in the Bosnian war; Muslim states supplied roughly two billion dollars in arms to Bosnian Muslims — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 793 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Muslim states supplied roughly two billion dollars in arms to Bosnian Muslims
#complicates(0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 793 - The Islamic world collectively declared the UN arms embargo invalid to arm Bosnian Muslims
#complicates(0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 790