Riada Ašimović Akyol Profile picture
Senior Communications Consultant @Gallup. All views mine.
Mar 6, 2020 11 tweets 3 min read
For all who wish to learn with humility, here is just a thread by one Bosniak on Noam Chomsky, from recently published book “The Lions’ Den” by Susie Linfield, how “Chomsky’s greatest split w/the other segments of the Left occurred over the Bosnian War.” 1.) “Chomsky’s worldview has subsequently resulted in some extremely odd positions, such as downplaying the carnage of the Khmer Rouge & Slobodan Milosevic’a ethnic cleansers.”
Nov 11, 2019 21 tweets 4 min read
1. Let’s start an important thread: Portrayals of Bosnia as a source of ‘Islamic threat’ echo anti-muslim narratives that led to genocide of Bosniaks in the 1990s.
My article on “Why Macron’s remarks on Bosnia are dangerous” is out! aje.io/bc9jq @AJEnglish 2. First, let us look at the facts. After the civil war broke out in Syria and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) emerged, about 200 Bosnian citizens (0.017 percent of the Bosnian Muslim population) went to fight in the conflict.