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Terrorism experts fear Bosnia could become a base for extremists, since many Bosnian Muslims have become radicalized through the influence of foreign combatants as well as the charitable Islamic organizations that spread their beliefs with money.
Before the war, women in full-body coverings and men with long beards were a rare sight. Today, though, they hardly turn a head.
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To put the blame entirely on the war is a bad excuse. The war ended a regime (Yugoslavian) which made it less likeable the use of these Islamic external signs. Had the end of the old Yugoslavia occured by means other than war, the result would have been pretty much the same as it is obvious that a country with a Muslim majority is a number one target for the spread of Islamism, regardless of whether the Muslim population is religious or just cultural.
Islamic organizations would have sent their proselitists just the same, as it would still have been a fertile ground.
Another thing to notice is that the suggestion that Bosniaks may have radicalized because they've seen Islamic jihadists helping them, and that this may have made them open to their influence, is also short from being anything realistic.
Those who helped them most were not the Mujahedeen, but the UN forces. Most of which were from nominally Christian countries.
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