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Entry: Tribe, Class, and Murder Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/tribe_class_and_murder#19682 Post contents: "I suspect, since your invocation of that people is laughable" I didn't mean to "invoke" anything. You would know the history better than I do -- readily conceded. You wrote the following: "It seems to me that Croatians would rather raze the Orthodox church in their Croatian neighborhood and erect a mosque in its place than live with Orthodox Serbs. This perplexes me." Well, I tried to point out that the Croats perceived a greater cultural threat coming from the Orthodox than from the Moslems. For the Serbs, the greater threat has always been from the Moslems -- or, for four horrible years during WWII, from the Croats. I rather think that some Irish Catholics would prefer a mosque next door to them as opposed to one of the Presbyterian churches subject to Ian Paisley. Not because Islam is superior to Eastern Orthodoxy or to Protestantism -- not at all, but rather because, historically speaking, the greater perceived threat came from the Serbs or the Scots-Irish Protestants, respectively. I am not trying to say that un-Christian resentment is Christian, only to chart the offenses that generate the grievances. Sent at: 2008 05 16