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OK everyone, another update on this Kosovo re-Christianization effort by overseas Serbs in Australia/Canada/Britain/USA (build/guard churches in Kosovo, snap photos of any anti-church vandalism by Kosovars or NATO troops). This one particularly important:

1. One of the movement starters— apparently a Macedonian Christian in Canada who’s been involved (and actively dreads the Islamization of his own Balkan land)— has suggested a brilliant idea to help the re-Christianization:

Using the Christian (and Muslim-rejecting) Albanian national hero, Skanderbeg, to help our cause by Christianizing Kosovo’s Albanians, so it becomes clear that this is not anti-Albanian, but protection from Islamofascism.

I hadn’t known this originally myself, but Skanderbeg— who’s something like the Albanian equivalent of George Washington for Americans— was a tough SOB who fought the Ottoman Turks harder than almost any other Balkan leader. Even more importantly— he was kidnapped by the Turks as a child and forcibly converted to Islam, then made an Ottoman general (like the janissaries), but in a subsequent Balkan battle, Skanderbeg renounced Islam and embraced Christianity. He then led Christian forces in crushing defeat of the Ottoman Turks!

The beautiful irony is— the revered national hero of the very people that the Globalists are using to turn Kosovo into an al-Qaeda hotspot (the Muslim Kosovo Albanians, since Skanderbeg is a hero for all Albanians, most of whom are actually Christian), is also one of the greatest and most vigorous defenders of Christian Europe from Muslim invasion.

And even better, because he himself returned to Christianity from Islam— something that Wahhabis in particular bitterly persecute their own populations about— he can serve as a comforting example to Kosovar Albanians, encouraging them to return to the Christian faith just as Skanderbeg did, and share the land with their Serbian Christian sisters and brothers. (Amazingly, this also seems to work well with Bosnian Muslims, where it’s gradually been employed.)

Apparently, this all got started by some very smart missionaries working in Belgium, who used the Skanderberg example to convert thousands of Kosovo Muslim Albanians who had been resident there, to Skanderbeg’s Christianity. (Again, it was also applied to many Bosnian Muslims, with similar success.) It’s since been spreading around the region, and the Kosovo re-Christianization movement founders then picked up on it. Truly brilliant.

2. One other detail on the movement’s founding— the reason there’s no Website for it yet, is that it only got started last year, and doesn’t even have a name yet. As I mentioned, preceding the Kosovo re-Christianization effort, has been a similar effort to encourage the Greek diaspora (also in Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States) to re-settle back in Greece, Cyprus and other Greek regions, to help rebuild the Greek Orthodox Church structure and to start business in the greater Hellenic region.

In fact, both of these were preceded by an even earlier such Diasporic return effort that began in 2008, to encourage the Armenian community in California (as well as in Britain and Canada) to resettle in Armenia and to help rebuild its ravaged economy. (Even this seems to have been inspired in part by prior efforts to encourage Diaspora Italian, Swedish and German Christians to resettle in their ancestral lands.)

Obviously, the Armenian effort is a purely economic one, not a re-Christianization, but it began in the wake of an analogous betrayal of a Christian people by an American President: The shameful, appeasing capitulation of Condi Rice, George W. Bush and the US Congress last year on the Armenian genocide issue.

This may be the one instance that I ever agree with Nancy Pelosi (who was one of its sponsors apparently), but there was a resolution to demand recognition of the Armenian genocide in the US Congress which was gaining broad support. But then, Condoleezza Rice— whom many conservative bloggers have rightfully suspected as being a pro-Muslim 5th-columnist— threw a temper tantrum about how it might offend a few Turks. Then George W. Bush dutifully licked Istanbul’s boots and pushed Congress to reject the resolution.

It was one of the most shameful betrayals in US history of our hard-working, patriotic Armenian-American community, and it so incensed many of our Armenians that they even renounced their US citizenship and moved to Armenia. Many Armenians in Canada, the UK and Australia soon followed. (As I said, Dhimmi Britain will soon be under Shari’a Law and frankly, I’m almost hoping that they fall apart sooner rather than later, so they do less damage to Serbs and other Christians as they wallow more and more in their Dhimmitude.)

Ironically, France has stood up the strongest for the Armenian people and demanded official recognition of the crimes committed against them, with the Berlin government soon following (though in more muted fashion).

I guess this is just a reminder that where the rubber meets the road, you never know who your friends and foes will be. In this case, Bill and Hillary Clinton (who are always the foes), George W. Bush and Condi Rice are the foes, while Nancy Pelosi (of all people) and Paris and Berlin (of all countries) are standing up for the long-persecuted Christians. Blind squirrels and acorns.