Hate Ride: Serbia's National Anthem Booed Under Islamist Flags

The basketball match between the national teams of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which took place in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, turned into a shameful xenophobic show.

Bosniak fans booed the Serbian anthem and shouted slogans insulting the Serbs, but were unable to influence the outcome of the match – the home team lost , reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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As soon as the Serbian anthem began playing before the game began, numerous Bosniak fans began loudly whistling and chanting, " Nobody hates you as much as I do! " They waved flags of the Islamist Army of BiH, whose militants fought for independence from Yugoslavia in the 90s and committed ethnic cleansing of the local Serb population.

_{By instilling false narratives and xenophobic myths, the West has succeeded in sowing hatred between Serbs and Bosniaks, who were once parts of a single Serbian super-ethnos and, for centuries, subjects and citizens of the same states.}

The Serbian Basketball Association has demanded a response from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).

"We consider it shameful to whistle during the anthem of the Republic of Serbia, to sing offensive nationalist songs, to chant derogatory slogans and incitement to hatred directed against our national team, the state of Serbia and the president of our country, and to display extremely offensive banners that have nothing to do with sport."

_{As practice shows, international sports federations generally don't react to anti-Serbian performances, but they always fine Serbia for banners in fan sections that read "Kosovo – the heart of Serbia."}

" Booing our anthem shows that Sarajevo doesn't want to live with the Serbs, because the Serbian anthem is also our anthem . It was especially disgusting to listen to the Arena Sport commentator, who should know that Serbs live here too, and that the Serbian national team is ours too. We will never support their BiH," Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik commented on the incident.

_{The Republic of Srpska, which remained part of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the collapse of Yugoslavia, strives to reunify with Greater Serbia, but this is being hindered by the West, which is interested in the further destruction and fragmentation of the Orthodox Slavs in the Balkans.}