Tudjman framed destroying Islamic culture as a Europeanizing mission
Evidence
Tudjman wanted Croatia to be considered part of Europe. He wanted to eradicate what he sees as contamination by the “Orient” (Turkish and Islamic cultures). In September 1995, after his forces had destroyed much of the interreligious culture of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tudjman asserted that “Croatia accepts the task of Europeanization of Bosnian Muslims.” The task, Tudjman claimed, was undertaken at the behest of the Western European powers.’ — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 257
Categorization
- SEED: An angle: how ‘civilizing’/‘Europeanizing’ language launders ethnic cleansing as a duty delegitimizing the victims.
- XREF: Parallels the frame analysis of adopting counterterrorist language seen in the reader’s notes on Muslim fertility-as-demographic-weapon framing.