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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (9786)	9/18/2001 9:47:21 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

There's a lot of ethnic hatred there irrespective of religion. Most often the underlying reasons are cultural in a much broader sense. The religion is just one tiny aspect of a long history of tribal hatred for a variety of reasons. It's much easier in a sound bite world for the media to say Muslim Attackers or Irish Catholic Extremists or Right Wing Christian Whackos. I agree - people rarely kill other people because religion told them too. But in Bosnia the only really difference between the Bosniac Muslims and Serbs is religion. The Muslims are Serbs who converted to Islam. That is what marks them out as a separate community. And the Serbian Orthodox church certainly supported the nationalism that lead to these atrocities. My real point is that none of these religions is "happy" or leads to good behavior per se. Many of the worst atrocities have been carried out by people who think, however misguidely, that they are defending "Christendom". David