The Question of Nationalism (Essay Sample)

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The question of nationalism
Michael Sells appears to have written a very well researched book. He has analyzed with great diligence and comprehension of the way religion promoted genocide in Bosnia. He has also analyzed the way individuals in the west; both church and political leaders for the most part analytically ignored the greatest misdeed committed in after- WW2 Europe, endeavoring to cover up with numerous futile and in essence, immoral justifications concerning what was happening and why they should or could do nothing about it.
While Sells focuses mostly on the accountability of nationalism and Serb religion for the genocide crimes, he devotes one crucial chapter to the Croats, crucial particularly for Catholics. It is chilling to note that the global preoccupation of stanch Catholics with the Marian visions at Medjugorje has kept on all through the period when the Catholics in Medjugorje have been analytically killing and forcing out Muslims and destroying every famous Muslim monument.
The main theme of this book as one can deduce from page 1 to 114, is a Serb one. One of the most disheartening things about Yugoslavia crash has been the influence of Croat groups and Diaspora Serb in North America and Europe supporting the extreme nationalists.
While there have been a number of Serbs in Belgrade and Bosnia to criticize the whole Serb national business, there has been nearly no Serb influence in Britain, for example, which has functioned as a protector of what has been genocide. That is why it is imperative to take notice of Serb milieu of Sells.
Sells is quite patented that what we are discussing genocide ...