Seems like an opportune thread on which to recall what my tag-line would read if FR gave us more characters:
And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was all about. —Slobodan Milosevic
He said this when the kangaroo court in the Hague before which he had been dragged to “answer” for his defense of his people refused to allow him to show in open court pictures of Bosniak jihadis exulting over piles of severed Serb heads.
The first shots fired in the wars of the Yugoslav dissolution were the machine-gunning of an Orthodox Christian (Serb) wedding by Bosniak Muslims. Don’t believe the NATO propaganda ginned up to justify the pro-Muslim interventions in the Balkans.
If you fancy the Bosniaks were secular before the war, you might look at the writings that got Alia Izetbegovic thrown out of the Yugoslav government — they advocate the establishment of a Sharia law regime. I suppose maybe they were secular the way Iraq was secular under the Ba’athists, or Iran was secular under the Shah, but that provides no comfort to their countrymen or neighbors when the authoritarian secularizing government collapses.
I'm aware of Izbegovic's Islamizing tendencies (and I never understood why the US and NATO decided to become allied with Izbegovic, other than perhaps as a gesture of good will to the Saudis), but the point is that his ideology would not have gotten the traction that it did without a civil war as a backdrop.
Does that statement make Milosevic a premature anti-islamofascist?