Editing Islamophobia (section)

=== Increase in Islamophobia during 1990s ===
{{See also|Bosnian genocide}}
During the [[Yugoslav Wars]] in the 1990s, far-right Serbian Orthodox Christian militants who were heavily indoctrinated with Islamophobic sentiments, perpetrated a genocide against [[Bosniaks|Bosniak Muslims]]. Since 1989, Serbian leader [[Slobodan Milošević]] publicly disseminated Islamophobic rhetoric throughout [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], inciting [[Far right in Serbia|Serbian far-right]] militants to massacre Bosniak Muslims.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Baboulias |first=Yiannis |date=1 April 2019 |title=The Balkans Are the World Capital of Islamophobia |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/01/the-balkans-are-the-world-capital-of-islamophobia/ |work=Foreign Policy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sabic-El-Rayess |first=Amra |date=1 Oct 2020 |title= Today's America reminds me of 1990s Bosnia and Herzegovina |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/1/from-90s-bosnia-to-mordern-dayhistory-repeats-itself |work=Al Jazeera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Najib |first=Kawtar |title=Spatialized Islamophobia |publisher=Routledge |year=2022 |isbn=978-0-367-89478-8 |location=New York |pages=32}}</ref>

The stereotyping of Bosniak Muslims as a hostile force threatening Europe with "terrorism" in Serbian propaganda was closely linked to the rise of Islamophobic narratives in [[Western media]] and [[European politics|European political]] discourse.{{sfn|Miles|Brown|2003|p=164, 165}}