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To: mark502inf
"The reason is that the Serb Orthodox Churches are seen as symbols of Serbian nationalism."

Obviously, I am not the one missing the point here. Again, I can excuse all crimes against the Albanian population with "these people were seen as symbols of Islamic fundamentalism and they had to be killed." That's just ridiculous!

Why would anybody in their right mind consider Serbian monasteries as symbols of Serbian nationalism? Albanians are trying too hard to act innocent. They're not. Some of them honestly believe the BS they've been fed all these years.

80% of those monasteries have been there at least 500 years -- long before any single Albanian ever arrived in Kosovo-Metohia, and certainly long before any Albanian lost his/her life at the hands of a Serb.

How come the monasteries are not seen as symbols of friendship and coexistence. How many Albanians have sought refuge and protection within the walls of those monasteries? Countless numbers! Yet, that doesn't seem to mean much to those same Albanians, does it?

Why are Serbian graveyards being vandalized and corpses dug up? Are those cemeteries symbols of Serbian nationalism, too?

What has happened in Kosovo (and is still happening) is a deliberate, calculated, premeditated, long-planned attempt to erase all symbols of Serbian presence there. This ongoing anti-Christian evil cannot be justified.

I will read the link you've provided but I highly doubt the number. Serbia -- twice the size of Croatia both by size and population -- doesn't have that many churches.

31 posted on 01/31/2005 6:05:40 PM PST by Banat ("You've got two empty 'alves of coconut, and you're banging 'em together!")
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To: Banat
Obviously, I am not the one missing the point here ... I can excuse all crimes

Obviously you are. Banat, just as I already told you here, there is no excuse for attacking churches. It is wrong. Explaining why something is done is not the same as justification for that reason. Failure to adhere to moral standards in Kosovo was already discussed above.

What has happened in Kosovo (and is still happening) is a deliberate, calculated, premeditated, long-planned attempt to erase all symbols of Serbian presence there. This ongoing anti-Christian evil cannot be justified.

You're right all the way except for where you substitute Christian for Serb. As much as Serb propaganda--even under the atheist Milosevic--try to conflate Serbian and Christian, they are not the same.

If the Albanians were anti-Christian, then they would be against Christianity. Albanian Christian churches are not attacked. Albanian Christian priests and nuns and parishioners are as free as any other Albanians. There are Christian missionaries in the country. They have elected a Christian as president. It simply flies in the face of reality to say the Albanians are anti-Christian. They are however, as you started to say earlier before you quickly corrected yourself and jumped back into the well-worn Serbs=Christianity propaganda path, decidedly anti-Serb.

On the flip side, how do you reconcile Serbs as Christians with their behavior at Srebrenica? ethnic cleansing in Kosovo? the destruction of over one thousand Catholic churches in Croatia?

32 posted on 02/01/2005 4:41:59 AM PST by mark502inf
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