(FrontPage Magazine) Stephen Schwartz - While Croatia evinces a new and sincere affinity to the Jews and Israel, and genuinely seeks a compact among its various religious communities, a journey through Bosnia-Herzegovina unveils signs of withdrawal from an illustrious heritage of ethnic harmony, and an embrace of an Islamism dominated by the Saudi-financed cult of Wahhabism. Evidence of rising Islamist influence in Sarajevo is also found in the increased adoption of the hijab, or covering, by women, and the exclusion of non-Muslim visitors from historic mosques. As Croatia looks north across its border with Slovenia, which joined the EU earlier this year, for its model, Muslim Bosnia would do much better to emulate its Croatian neighbor than to continue down the slippery slope to Arab-based Islamic radicalism.
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