August 28, 2010
Srebrenica remains controversial
[editor's note: The United States and the United Nations both accept the story of the Srebrenica massacre by Serbs. However, it remains controversial in some circles. Julia Gorin wrote the following letter to us in response to Jeannie DeAngelis's article "One Mosque at a Time" which mentioned the massacre]In objecting to the Ground Zero mosque, some conservatives pull out the universal whipping boy from the ‘90s, and invert the analogyNo sooner did I post a blog castigating fellow conservatives who are using "the Srebrenica example" as a counter-example to Muslim behavior with the Ground Zero Mosque, than we see yet another conservative jump on the convenient anti-Serb bandwagon, at American Thinker. Jeannie DeAngelis wrote:In modern history, a territorial struggle started by Muslims culminated in one of the worst acts of genocidal aggression in modern times. The massacre took place at the end of the Slavic civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the mining town...(Read Full Post)