War transformed Bosnian multiculturalism into Muslim nationalist dominance

Evidence

His reluctance to repudiate publicly and explicitly The Islamic Declaration, generated fear among non-Muslims. As the war went on, Bosnian Serbs and Croats moved from areas controlled by the Bosnian government, and those who remained found themselves gradually excluded from desirable jobs and participation in social institutions. … Religious teaching expanded in the schools, and new textbooks emphasized the benefits of Ottoman rule. The Bosnian language was promoted as distinct from Serbo-Croatian and more and more Turkish and Arabic words were incorporated into it. Government officials attacked mixed marriages and the broadcasting of “aggressor” or Serbian music. The government encouraged the Islamic religion and gave Muslims preference in hirings and promotions. … Most important, the Bosnian army became Islamized, with Muslims constituting over 90 percent of its personnel by 1995. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 744

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general theme in Chapter 5 of civilizational’kin countries’ and ‘torn countries’ — Bosnia as a torn society reshaped by war and external pressures. — connects to: Yugoslav wars shifted European moral judgment against ethnic expulsion — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1115; War converted Americanization from cosmopolitan sympathy into coercive nationalist conformity. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1483
• ADDENDUM: Relates distantly to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ piece only by being about cultural transformation; the real resonance is with Huntington’s civilizational identity argument.