From: narayana@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Kuram T Narayana)
Subject: Re: PLEASE! SHOW UP IN WASHINGTON DC FOR BOSNIA (MAY 15th)
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In article <1sreod$73k@venus.haverford.edu> Michael Sells <m_sells@haverford.edu> writes:
>Subject: Re: Europe vs. Muslim Bosnians
>From: Satya Prabhakar, prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu
>Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 15:50:31 GMT
>In article <C6x81M.EJF@news.cis.umn.edu> Satya Prabhakar,
>prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu writes:
>>(mohamed.s.sadek) writes:
>>>
>>>I like what Mr. Joseph Biden had to say yesterday 5/11/93 in the senate.
>>>
>>>Condemening the european lack of action and lack of support to us plans 
>>>and calling that "moral rape".
>>>
>>>He went on to say that the reason for that is "out right religious
>BIGOTRY"
>>
>>Actually, this strife in Yugoslavia goes back a long way. Bosinan
>Muslims,
>>in collaboration with the Nazis, did to Serbians after the first world
>>war what Serbs are doing to Muslims now.
>
>This kind of racialist generalization is utterly inappropriate.  SOME
>Bosnian Muslims cooperated with the Nazis in World War 2.  Other Bosnian
>Muslims risked their lifes to hide Jews from the Nazis and Ustashe, and
>those Jews who survived the war remember that.  In fact the Jewish leader
>in Sarajevo has remained there saying he wants to repay the debt to the
>Bosnian Muslims that saved so many Jewish lives in WW2.
>
>Similarly, SOME Serbs are "doing" to Muslims now. This is a group of
>serial-killers, rapists, and thieves who have control of the vast
>Yugoslav army arsenal.  Many other Serbs oppose these atrocities.  As one
>of Serbian heritage who condemns emphatically the genocide being carried
>out against Muslims by both HVO and Mladic forces, I condemn your
>generalization about Bosnian Muslims and about Serbs.
>
>
> This is not a fresh case of
>>ethnic cleansing but just another chapter in the continuing saga
>>of intense mutual hatred, destruction,... 
>
>Every place on earth is the scene of a saga of mutual hatred and
>destruction.  The holocaust was not a "fresh case."  It was another
>chapter in a 900 year history of attacks on Jews in Europe.  That didn't
>make it acceptable. and Balkan history does not make the genocide against
>Bosnian Muslims acceptable.
>
>Not taking sides in this
>>perpetual war does not amount to religious bigotry.
>
>Standing by and allowing well-armed criminals to slaughter Bosnian Muslim
>civilians, while enforcing an arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims is
>not only religious bigotry it is direct complicity in mass-murder.
>
>
> It could just
>>be helplessness with regards to bringing peace to a region that does
>>not even know the meaning of the word.
>
>You tell us a region on earth that does have a long history of war.  NATO
>is the largest military "police force" in the world.  It was not
>"helpless."  It could have stopped the carnage a year ago.  
>
>
>>
>>Satya Prabhakar
>
>Regards,
>
>Mike.
>--
>Michael Sells, Department of Religion, Haverford College
>Haverford, Pa 19041-1392


