Posted on 10/12/2006 1:04:39 PM PDT by kronos77
Moscow, October 12, Interfax - An independent Kosovo would lead to an irreparable tragedy for all of Europe, Bishop Artemije of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija has said.
"I would compare an independent Kosovo to a cancer, which would affect all of Europe, not only the regions surrounding it," Bishop Artemije said at a press conference at the Interfax main office in Moscow on Thursday.
In the seven years the peacekeeping contingent has been present in Kosovo, that province "has become a European black hole where crime, drugs, weapons, and human trafficking thrive," he said.
"An independent Kosovo would become a base for extremist forces, and its separation from Serbia would lead to the complete elimination of the Christian community and all traces of the thousand-year history of Christianity in that area," he said.
Since the moment the KFOR contingent arrived in Kosovo, over 150 Orthodox churches and monasteries there have been destroyed. In the same period, over 400 mosques have been built in that territory with financial support from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries, he said.
In addition, 250,000 Serbs have been expelled from Kosovo, over 1,300 Serbs have been killed and about as many have gone missing, Bishop Artemije said. Tens of thousands of Serbian homes and hundreds of villages have been destroyed over this time, he said.
"The time of persecutions and fear continues for the Serbs and other non-Albanian ethnic groups," he said.
Albanians= Muslim Illegal Immigrants brought by Turkish invader and given Christian Land by Communist and NATO
Serbs= Christian domestic population prosecuted by Muslims, Communists and NATO
And so goes the march of Islam....
BTTT
It already has come to their doorsteps -- they just hope that feeding it will make it go away. But it doesn't work that way -- feed it and it only gets bigger and stronger until there is no food left except to devour them!
Kosovo should be in Serb hands.
I would go one step further and declare that Islam is a cancer on humanity.
Yes, but the leftovers from the Clinton Administration are still there in the Bush Administration giving Balkan policy advice that is even worse today than it was then!
Guys like this moron, Daniel Sewer (his salary is funded by Congress) who characterizes the anti-Kosovo-independence movement as "despicably anti-Muslim". Muslims destroy 150 churches in Kosovo right under the nose of the UN Administration and NATO, but these Muslims are not "anti-Christian"????!!!! No, Serbs who don't want to live under Muslim domination on Christian land are "anti-Muslim"!!!!!!
This guy Serwer needs to be booted and fast!
With Kosovo becoming a "country" (and thus having Kosovan nationals) and the power to naturalize "citizens", it wouldn't matter if Turkey is admitted to the UN....."Kosovo" the "nation" would simply grant citizenship to all muslims who arrive....and therefore they would all have the free run of all of Europe.
"Independence" for Kosovo will be the bottom of the slope to the bloody end of Europe!
Of course. The Albanians in Albania will be wanting their own country next.
One wonders what the world is coming to.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060924&hn=36713
Turkish Becomes Official Language in Kosovo
By Cihan News Agency
Saturday, September 23, 2006
zaman.com
Turkish has become one of the official languages in Kosovo following the approval of a proposal in Kosovo’s parliament on Thursday.
The parliament adopted the proposal by a majority, allowing Turkish to be the third official language in the region, along with Albanian and Serbo-Croatian.
The Kosovo parliament had rejected the same proposal twice before, the second rejection being on Sept. 14, which prompted Ankara to express their disappointment earlier this week.
Around 15,000 ethnic Turks live in Kosovo. They have had a long-standing desire for their language to be used in official documents.
Following the rejection of the proposal last week, the Turkish foreign ministry on Tuesday urged the Kosovo parliament to discuss the issue again and stressed the importance that Turkey attributed to the issue.
Turkish was declared official in Kosovo in 1974, but the U.N. administration in Kosovo removed it from the official languages in 1999.
Kosovo has been under the NATO-led multinational Kosovo Force (KFOR) since 1999 following a NATO bombing campaign that drove out Serbian forces, who were accused of ethnic cleansing. Albanians constitute almost 90 percent of Kosovo's two million people.
Turkey has had 350 peacekeepers deployed in Kosovo as part of the 17,500-strong NATO-led peacekeeping force since 1999. The force is responsible for establishing and maintaining security in Kosovo.
The Albanians in Kosovo who don't want to be part of Serbia already have their own country... it's called Albania!
"The Clinton regime supported the Muslims in the conflict."
The Clinton regime bombed christians - to cover for them the media came up with new names like Serb and Kosovan.
A pox on their house.
Serbia should've napalmed the heathen scum.
a muslim dominated anything is a cancer. period.
Kosovo is no more part of Albania than Aztlan is part of Mexico, you kneeling Dhimmi.
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