Kosovo rises on international agenda (Good reading for begginers on Balkan Issue!)

Washinton Times, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR ^

[kronos77]

But Kosovo -- a Serbian province of 2 million people that experienced a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 -- is on the brink of bursting onto the world stage once again. With the United States and the European Union pressing for resolution of Kosovo's final status this year, it once looked like independence was assured. But now Serbia is trying to put that decision off, which could reawaken Balkan unrest. After seven years of United Nations control, the majority Albanian and Muslim population is clamoring for independence. But the Serbian, largely Christian, minority is campaigning to remain attached to Serbia. The Serbian Kosovars claim that independence would mean creation of an Islamic fundamentalist state in Europe and expose them to ethnic violence.

"Granting independence to Kosovo would be a reward for the crimes the Albanians have committed, and would create a base for criminality and jihad in the very heart of Europe," said Artemije Radosavljevic, a Serbian Orthodox bishop in Kosovo. Bishop Artemije, who has made several trips to Washington to plead the case of the Serbian population, claims that more than 3,000 Kosovo Serbs have been killed or kidnapped in the years of international administration. He adds that 150 churches and monasteries have been razed and thousands of Serbian houses destroyed. He says he has found sympathetic ears in the U.S. Congress, but little movement from a pro-independence stance in the State Department.

[kronos77]

[FormerLib]

Other than the toothless Dhimmi and that SS stooge, is anyone on FR a big enough fool to support handing land over to the KLA criminals?

[Continental Soldier]

Silly question from a simple guy: Why aren't the 'ethnic Albanians' in Albania, where one would think the belong?

[Brian Allen]

<< The Serbian Kosovars claim that independence would mean creation of an Islamic fundamentalist state in Europe .... >>

Yep. Thanks to the Blair and Clinton created and al Qeada and Whacko Waco-Wesley Clark and NATO-allied Neo-Axis gang that took up where Hitler had long ago been stopped and attacked and essentially destroyed Christian Yugoslavia.

[kronos77]

Silly anwser from a simple guy:

-Why the Mexicans are not in Mexico?

Anyhow, at least Mexicans do nt hve tendency to chop the head of their neoghbour of other belief... Albanians do...

[Bokababe]

"Mr. Serwer, who is also vice president of USIP's Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations, said that while there have been some cases of violence against Serbs, the numbers have been "grossly trumped up" by the anti-independence lobby to create a more alarming picture.

Mr. Serwer reserves his ire for the references these groups make to Islamic terrorism "in an attempt to tap into American fears," he said.

"These claims, that go so far as to equate an independent Kosovo to an al Qaeda refuge, are so outrageous and blatantly anti-Muslim that they are despicable," Mr. Serwer said.

1. Here was my response when someone first mentioned that article a couple of days ago & it still holds -- it's no "exageration".

2. Here is a list of the people who Sewer mentions as protesting Kosovo Independence when they spoke at a presentation on Kosovo. They are hardly "alarmists" -- nor are they a bunch of nutcases:

Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona)

Doug Bandow (commentator; author of Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire; Former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan)

Peggy Birchfield (Executive Director, Religious Freedom Coalition)

Ambassador James Bissett (last Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia)

Julia Gorin (commentator; contributor, Jewish World Review, FrontPageMag.com)

Joseph Grieboski (Founder and President, Institute on Religion and Public Policy)

Nikolas Gvosdev (Editor, The National Interest)

John Hulsman (coauthor, Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World; contributing editor to The National Interest; former senior research fellow, Heritage Foundation)

Cliff Kincaid (commentator; Editor, Accuracy in Media (AIM) Report.)

Steven Meyer (Professor of Political Science, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University)

Fr. Keith Roderick (Washington Representative, Christian Solidarity International)

Robert Spencer (Director of JihadWatch.org and author of The Truth about Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades))

Srdja Trifkovic (commentator; author of Defeating Jihad and Sword of the Prophet; foreign-affairs editor, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture)

3. The bad news is that we US taxpayers pay the salaries of morons like Serwer, whose US Institute for Peace is funded by the US Congress!

[Dmitry Vukicevich]

Thank You, I am trying to cram all the information I can about the Serbs as my mother was not allowed to talk to us about it while her father was alive. He always said we are Americans.

On a different subject I met an elderly gentleman while I was out hiking today and sat to talk with him. I learned that he was from Slovenia. He told me about how badly the Serbs were treated by Clinton and that the people he knows hope that the Serbs banish the muslims from Serbian territory. I was hoping you had some insight in regard to the relations of Slovenia and Serbia.


Thanks,

D

[Cacique]

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