Western betrayal of Bosnia strengthened the very Islamic extremism it feared

Evidence

As evidenced by those commentators who immediately assumed that the terrorist behind the Oklahoma City bombing was a Muslim, when it turned out the suspect was a follower of the Christian Identity movement, a militant anti-Islamic prejudice has now pervaded much of Western society, subduing any popular sentiment for protecting “them,” the religiously “other” in Bosnia.” Tragically, the betrayal by Western powers of Bosnian Muslims into the hands of genocide will only strengthen the argument of Islamic militants that the West is by nature inimical to Islam, thus further polarizing elements of Muslim and Christian populations. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 321

Categorization

• XREF: A self-fulfilling prophecy logic that connects to the reader’s notes on the Iraq war and blowback dynamics.

Related

• Western anti-Muslim and Islamic anti-Western narratives reinforce each other (similarity 0.86)
• Religious violence in the post-cold war era is a global, not Balkan, force (similarity 0.83)
• Mainstream anti-Muslim prejudice enabled Western acquiescence in the Bosnian assault (similarity 0.80)
• The Muslim label trapped Bosnians between Western and Islamic stereotyping (similarity 0.79)
• Leading Western newspapers would never print such venom about Christianity or Judaism, only Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Croat and Serb militias jointly dynamited mosques across eastern Bosnia (similarity 0.79)
• Bosnian Muslims suffered uniquely methodical persecution from both nationalist sides (similarity 0.79)
• The anti-Muslim genocide reused the Christ-killer myth once aimed at Jews (similarity 0.79)
• Militants engineered revenge attacks to fabricate proof of ethnic incompatibility (similarity 0.78)
• The Bosnia genocide was religious in four distinct, compounding senses (similarity 0.78)