Amazing, A semi-civilized question. I'll try to give it the answer it deserves.
I know that Christians are not infallible. I'm a Christian and am reminded of this on a daily basis. However....
Yes, a few hundred Muslims from north Africa joined the Bosnian Muslims during the war in Bosnia. A few hundred American and Canadian Serbs joined the Serbs. A few hundred American and Canadian Croats joined the Croats.
It happened. It does not delegitimize any of the three sides that people came from overseas to fight in the various uniforms. That's not the question.
The question is this: do we allow Serb Nazis, who started and lost three wars against their neighbors, and the United States, in the last ten years, to try to twist their failed attempt to conquer their neighbors into an anti-Islamic crusade to which Americans should have joined them? I say NO. Nazis, of whatever flavor, must be crushed like bugs, whether they are Islamo-nazi terrorists of the Bin Laden variety, or small-town Serbian Nazis of the Arkan variety.
The Bosniacs are no more Muslim than Manhattanites are hardcore Baptists. To attempt to portray them as indistinguishable from gibbering machete wielding Islamonazis in Iraq is nothing more than an attempt to justify the mindless genocide committed against them in the late war, and to lay the groundwork for a second round of genocide if they can get away with it.
Nazis are evil, no matter whose flag they fly.
You did not answer the question, you made a statement Im not talking about the nuts on either side, the 'few hundred'. Im talking about as nations, the US and other NATO nations put their money and sons into defending Bosnia against Serbia. Can you give me an instance of a Muslim nation coming to the defense of Christians under persecution of other Muslims? Why were Palestinians dancing in the streets during 9/11?
The question is this: do we allow Serb Nazis, who started and lost three wars against their neighbors, and the United States, in the last ten years, to try to twist their failed attempt to conquer their neighbors into an anti-Islamic crusade to which Americans should have joined them? I say NO.
Ron where have you been? with the Serbian Army out of Bosnia the anti Serb violence by Bosnian Muslims has been amazingly high. Are the Christians in Bosnia burning their own Milena old monasteries? All the Bosnians have managed to do is make me think maybe the Serbs were not all that terrible. To be honest I dont know, Everything I have seen tells me things were exaggerated.I do know that Albanian Muslims are now demanding a part of Albania which happens to border Bosnia.
The Bosniacs are no more Muslim than Manhattanites are hardcore Baptists. To attempt to portray them as indistinguishable from gibbering machete wielding Islamonazis in Iraq is nothing more than an attempt to justify the mindless genocide committed against them in the late war, and to lay the groundwork for a second round of genocide if they can get away with it.
I look around at the Philippines where like anywhere when a critical mass of Muslims accumulates a call for their own nation emerges. I had Chinese friends in college who had to flee Indonesia because they were Christian. Just today a group that Arafat refuses to denounce set off a bomb at a bus stop in Israel.
To be sure Christianity has this in its past (Colonial Europe) but it has out grown this and started to look inwardly at the church rather than outwardly at conquering nations.