They got along with each other, in Sarajevo. What happened, because the members of these faiths were not educated in each others faiths, when these terrible demagogues like Milosevic got in to demonize each other, then it turned into a blood feud cycle. Even though Communists suppressed religions, they did not to educate people. But they were left in their old fashioned form, and they did not know what the other religions were like. At Columbia Universtiy, we're in the middle of working with University of Sarejevo, to try to start a comparative religions department at the university level.
American universities are the only ones who have comparative religions department.
It s because of our religious pluralism. Other countries have established religions, so they keep comparative studies of religions out of schools. When you re underground in a communist state, then you naturally develop a very conservative form of religion. Yes, they can. It's not a matter of will.