NATO chaplains in Kosovo clean up a burnt Serb Orthodox monastery

China Post ^ | August 8, 2005

[joan]

NATO chaplains and Serb nuns in Kosovo are to launch on Monday a cleanup of a 15th century monastery burnt during the worst outbreak of ethnic violence since the province's war.

The Devic monastery was among dozens of Serbian Orthodox churches and other religious sites that were burned and damaged in March last year when ethnic Albanian extremists targeted Serbs in a wave of attacks that killed 19 people and left thousands homeless.

The chaplains will be led by Lt. Gen. Yves de Kermabon, the commander of the NATO-led peacekeeping force.

Kosovo has been administered by a United Nations mission and patrolled by NATO-led peacekeepers since mid-1999, when an alliance air war halted Serb forces' crackdown on the independence-seeking ethnic Albanian majority.

[joan]

bttt

[maestro]

?....EU-NATO chaplains in Kosovo clean up a burnt Serb Orthodox monastery,....but,...NO CHURCH BELL RINGING ALLOWED!

/calls to Worship JESUS?

[RedwineisJesus]

"""NATO chaplains and Serb nuns in Kosovo are to launch on Monday a cleanup of a 15th century monastery burnt during the worst outbreak of ethnic violence since the province's war."""

The reason that they waited this long is because they didn't want to get Peter Jenning's knickers in a twist and make him start smoking again.

[joan]

And also they sure waited a long time to even get to this clean up - not to mention any reconstruction - as the riots happened in March 2004.

[joan]

There's a lot of passive-aggressiveness towards the Serbs by NATO and the international community - not to mention the outright aggression by those entities (and by the Albanians too).

For instance, after a Serb's house is set on fire, the Serbs will call for help, but no help will arrive until hours later - if ever - and the house will have been totally burnt down. The Albanians, however, get quick service for any emergency calls.

[Hegemony Cricket]

"ethnic Albanian extremists", eh?

[bboop]

Can you say "MUSLIMS" boys and girls?

[joan]

This is a video of Albanians burning and destroying another church during those riots. One man gets on top the church and bends the cross on top, then jumps up and down on it after he's bent it horizontal - and he almost loses his balance - before he finally breaks it off and it drops to the cheers of the Albo crowd.

http://www.srpskapolitika.com/video/Podujevo.html

[bboop]

Um, so the rules are -- We cannot sneeze on a Koran without causing THEM to riot, but when they deface a Christian church, they get a pass? Oh I get it. NOT.

[F-117A]

Thanks for the video Joan.

Your UCK buddies in action Hoplite!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Hypocrites.

It's their damned fault that the Jihadis sawed off a hunk of Europe and burned it. It couldn't have happened without them.
And Bill.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1459968/posts

[D_Idaho]

Joan-
The destruction of centuries old churches continues under UN supervision. Coming to a neighborhood near you.

http://www.kosovo.com/destruction.html

[FormerLib]

I wonder how Kosovo's new occupants will respond to NATO rebuilding some of these historical churches. Will they be able to control their darkest impulses or will they reveal the sort of people they truly are?

[F-117A]

Devic

[SQUID]

ethnic Albanian extremists: Just call them what they are, AKA ISLAMIC TERRORISTS

Once again proving that Christianity and Islam can only coexist in that area if Islam is in complete control and if Islam had the blessing of Bill Clinton. The ISLAMIC ALBAINIAN Terrorists are very grateful to Clinton for his air support a few years earlier. You know, it will be amazing if Christianity survives the next 100 yrs in Europe when you have so many forces looking to turn the Cross into a burning pile of ashes. NATO honored RAMADAN when the first golf war was in full force by a ceasefire. However, for the Orthodox Christians who observed Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday...not one bomb was spared. Gen. Clark responded by saying, Serbs need to feel the pain. Independence from what by the way? If you lived in my apartment building and declared Independence from the rest of the building that doesn't mean Independence in this case would be a noble thing. If the Cubans became 70% of the population in Florida should they too have the right to declare Independence for something that doesn't belong to them. No way. There would be a "CRACK DOWN" within hours. Islam has never owned Kosovo. Kosovo was split by the communist regime to divide the Serbian majority. So, for the Muslims there the vacuum of communism was a blessing. It allowed for a NATO supported land grab.

[RedwineisJesus]

"""It couldn't have happened without them.
And Bill."""

According to the National Post newspaper it was Peter Jennings who "forced Bosnia to the forefront of Americans' attention, paving the way for then-president Bill Clinton to end U.S. vacillation and intervene in the Balkans".

I always thought that THAT'S why Peter started smoking again right after 9/11, realizing the wrong he's done to Bill.

Now that he has kicked the bucket we'll never know I guess.

[montyspython]

It doesn't matter, as long as US troops are not threatened, Hoplite could care less about Serbian Orthodox Monasteries.

[MarMema]

I wish I could watch it, but I don't think I can bear it.