As an Old Montenegrin Saying goes: "What good is freedom if you can no longer cut the throat of a Muslim." [pg 152.]
The pathological suspicion and hatred of Muslim Slavs—who in no other respect except religous and cultural identity differ from their Serb, Montengegrin, and Croat neighbors—is worth a study in itself. It is close in character to anti-Semitism in countries where the Jews were culturally and linguistically assimilated to the majority (German and Austria). It also is rooted in the five hundred years of Turkish Muslim domination in the region and the centuries of near-genocidal war of 'reconquisada' that was sanctioned by the Catholic and Orthodix churches and was mythologized through heroic epic poems and legends. It was an atavistic sentiment all too easy to mibilize among Serb and Montenegrins. Repeated anti-Muslim statements by the Croat press and President Tudjman show that this sentiment is also present among the Croats. The victims, alas, are probably the most secularized Muslim population in the world. [a footnote]

From "Ethnic Nationalism: The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia," by Bogdan Denitch 1994

Image: Podgorica, 2006 Photo by Kyong Park