Many naive people think that Islam is a middle-eastern tradition. Islam is the most dominant & fastest spreading religion, and it has been like that for roughly 1,500 years. Although Europe has murdered thousands of Muslims in order to keep Islamic influence away from it’s society, Islam has existed in Europe longer than most people realize. This article will discuss how Europe & the United Nations turned a blind eye while Serbia murdered thousands of Muslims & destroyed hundreds of masjids.
To begin, Bosnia was annexed by the Muslim Ottoman Empire in the middle of the 15th century. It remained under Ottoman control for 400 years until the late 19th century. Ottomans were a Muslim people, and Islam was the foundation of their state. The Ottomans ruled over many different cultures peacefully, & Bosnia was no exception. Even though Austria & Hungary occupied it & annexed it for some time, Islam never left Bosnia. After WW1, Yugoslavia was formed, but it fell apart within 100 years, creating Muslim-majority Bosnia (Bosnia & Herzegovina) & several other countries including Serbia.
To begin explaining what is known as ‘The Srebrenica Massacre’, I’ll share an excerpt from Brittanica.
Beginning in 1992, Bosnian Serb forces targeted Srebrenica in a campaign to seize control of a block of territory in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their eventual goal was to annex this territory to the adjacent republic of Serbia (which, along with Montenegro, constituted the rump of the Yugoslav federation). To do so, they believed, required the expulsion of the territory’s Bosniak inhabitants, who opposed annexation. In March 1995 Radovan Karadžić, president of the self-declared autonomous Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb Republic), directed his military forces to “create an unbearable situation of total insecurity with no hope of further survival or life for the inhabitants of Srebrenica.” In late June, after some skirmishes with the few remaining Bosniak fighters, the Bosnian Serb military command formally ordered the operation, code-named Krivaja 95, that culminated in the massacre. The offensive commenced on July 6, 1995, with Bosnian Serb forces advancing from the south and burning Bosniak homes along the way. Amid chaos and terror, thousands of civilians fled Srebrenica for the nearby village of Potočari, where a contingent of about 200 Dutch peacekeepers was stationed. Some of the Dutch surrendered, while others withdrew; none fired on the advancing Bosnian Serb forces. On July 11, Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladić strolled through Srebrenica and, in a statement recorded on film by a Serb journalist, said, “We give this town to the Serb nation…The time has come to take revenge on the Muslims.”
Link: https://www.britannica.com/event/Srebrenica-massacre
Despite the UN peacekeepers total incompetence at the time, the men behind most of these war crimes are dead or in prison. However, Serbia murdered thousands of Muslims in Europe, and their families will never forget how Europe failed to protect them.
Something else to note is that as Russians flee the war environment, Serbia is holding the keys to Europe. If Russians travel to any European country besides the one who massacred Muslims, they will be denied access to Europe. This shows Western European countries’ policy of discrimination toward Muslims, even when they are neighbors. People should be free to travel wherever they want. Europe needs to get over its fear of Islam & allow people to travel freely; Muslims, Russians, everybody.
As long as Western countries pick & choose who deserves human rights, who can come in & from where, etc., they will have a reputation of being racist & untrustworthy. If these countries really want growth, they will need to respect humanity, diversity & Islam. They should accept these values sooner than later, as some of their sharpest citizens are leaving for tax-havens, while some of the sharpest newcomers are denied entry because they are from war-zones.
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