The patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), Porfirije, will officiate the liturgy in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka, commemorating the founding of Republika Srpska (RS) on Jan.9. This "holiday" was proclaimed unconstitutional by the highest Bosnian court. 1/ For many citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, esp. Bosniaks and Croats, this day represents genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes, including rape and concentration camps. What explains the SOC's long-standing support for Serbian nationalism and the crimes it produced? 2/

The modern state of any type - liberal, Marxist, socialist, praetorian, etc. - has access to the means of coercion that pre-modern states could never even conceive, and it has not shied from using them. The liberal state is wedded to disciplinary/punitive capitalism and ... 1/

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usually outsources coercion and punishment to the marketplace. Think of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who refused to stand for the national anthem, and of Kaepernick, who kneeled during its performance. The liberal market punished both. 2/

When the Nazis occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) in 1941, a group of Bosniak leaders, led by the Muslim scholars, raised the voice against the Nazi mistreatment of the "unwanted" groups of people, mainly Serbs, Jews, and Roma ("Gypsies").
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amazon.com/Muslim-Resolut… In a recently published book, which I co-edited with @hikmet_karcic and Ferid Dautovic, we collected the "Muslim resolutions," as they are known, translated them into English, and added several essays to provide a context. Excerpts included at the link.
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The role of the Serbian Orientalists in justifying genocide against the Bosniak population of Bosnia is not well known. Norman Cigar wrote an excellent paper in which he analyzed the way in which the Serbian scholarship on Islam enabled genocide.

THREAD 1/ The Orientalists used every trope known to an Islamophobe in order to justify genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In some ways, they have created a playbook from which the Islamophobes freely draw until today. 2/

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The horrors of the genocide in Srebrenica (in Bosnia and Herzegovina in general) are becoming more vivid as more and more survivors share their stories. For some of them, it took more than two decades to finally be able to speak publicly.

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balkans.aljazeera.net/vijesti/znas-l… Omer Dudić was a young man, living in Srebrenica, when the war started. Srebrenica was attacked by the Serb forces in 1992. By 1993, the humanitarian situation was unbearable. In April 1993, Srebrenica was designated a "safe area" by the UN.

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"Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Jews are one body" - The Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Husein Kavazović, at the conference, "Coexistence of Muslims and Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 200 years of the Sarajevo Purim."
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#Bosnia #MuslimsandJews
radiosarajevo.ba/amp/metromahal… The conference commemorates 200 years since the Bosnian Muslims rose against the Ottoman governor, who imprisoned the leader of Sarajevo Jews and demanded a huge ransom. The Muslims not only freed Rabbi Moše Danon but sent the governor back to Istanbul.
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"Dictatorship is immoral even when it prohibits a sin, democracy is moral even when it permits it. Morality is inseparable from freedom. Only a free behavior is a moral behavior."

Alija Izetbegović (d.2003), Bosnian President

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@Shanfaraa @naderalihashemi @AkyolinEnglish "By negating freedom, and with it a possibility of choice, dictatorship in its very premises contains a negation of morality. Hence, in spite of the appearances, dictatorship and religion are mutually exclusive."

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