How Western Muslims Fare May Foretell the Future

I was coming of political age when the genocide of the Bosniaks — that euphemism that is actually about Muslim Bosnians — in the Balkans was fully underway. I saw how the promise of Europe — the rule of law, the respect of pluralism — was being challenged and how when that promise failed, it was the Muslims who paid the price.

Today, as a new war is unfolding in Europe with its own geopolitical dynamics, old concerns on the continent remain unresolved. According to Christian Schmidt, the United Nations’ high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia now faces “the greatest existential threat of the postwar period. And while we say “never again” about the Holocaust or the Bosnian genocide, the truth is that “never again” isn’t a default setting in the West.

The opening of the article. The full text is at New Lines Magazine.