There is something else as well.

The west has refused to take seriously the purges of Muslims in areas of Europe as the Ottomans withdrew from the area. These were usually also systematic, and in Russian areas, usually involved mass murder. I admit this bit of history is why I hold some antipathy for Russia now, along with the shootdown of Malaysian Air Flight 17, along with the looting of the victims that occurred.

This also happened in Albania, with Serbia and Albania wiping out roughly 1/3 of all Albanians on the planet in the 1910-1913 timeframe. They also lost a huge amount of their territory, including Kosovo. What is especially amusing is the fact that Serbia and Greece still put very aggressive pressure on Albania and Kosovo to treat their minorities in both of those countries very well, something that Serbia and Greece have never done.

This has very real ramifications today.

Clinton said U.S. allies in Europe blocked proposals to adjust or remove the embargo. They justified their opposition on plausible humanitarian grounds, arguing that more arms would only fuel the bloodshed, but privately, said the president, key allies objected that an independent Bosnia would be “unnatural” as the only Muslim nation in Europe. He said they favored the embargo precisely because it locked in Bosnia’s disadvantage. [..] When I expressed shock at such cynicism, reminiscent of the blind-eye diplomacy regarding the plight of Europe’s Jews during World War II, President Clinton only shrugged. He said President Franois Mitterrand of France had been especially blunt in saying that Bosnia did not belong, and that British officials also spoke of a painful but realistic restoration of Christian Europe. Against Britain and France, he said, German chancellor Helmut Kohl among others had supported moves to reconsider the United Nations arms embargo, failing in part because Germany did not hold a seat on the U.N. Security Council.

There is still a very real impulse in Europe to purge Muslims. At some point, something will happen, and Europe will do something awful. The European states need to come clean, and also admit massive human rights violations against Muslims, especially by the Greeks, the Serbians, and especially the Russians, who I think are the worst persecutor of Muslims in Human History, bar none.