You 're welcome, iopscusa. I wish that it weren't so. I wished that it had never happened -- but it did. In the absence of that, I really wish that the Vatican would just acknowledge it, genuinely apologize for it and promise that it will never tolerate such horrors again from its clergy and adherents, and then we could all forgive and move on -- as Christians.
But this denial is hurting everyone, as the wound keeps getting opened, prodded and polluted over and over again.
I’m amazed at how the historic flashpoints such as the intersection of Islam and the Christian World continue to boil onto the global stage, just as these ancient hatreds seem to infect all Balkan threads right here on FR...
With the possible exception of a hatred of Christians for Islamists who conquered them and kept them enslaved for 400 years, these hatreds really are NOT "ancient" -- that's a Western myth intended to make ALL the ethnicities of that area look like "subhuman barbarians who can't help themselves". It's nonsense.
Virtually all the enmity between the the Balkan ethnicities is only about 100 years old, and most of it was (and continues to be) sponsored from outside the Balkans -- from Germany in the West and from Iran & Saudi Arabia in the ME.
This website makes an interesting historical connection between the defeat WWII Nazism and today's rising Islamofascism.
The website has a list of high ranking German Nazis who escaped to the ME post-war, translated Mein Kampf into Arabic and became high-level advisers to ME governments. These old Nazis infected the Middle East with hatred of Jews and the plans for destroying them.
The second part of that old Nazi network was in the former Yugoslavia -- Bosnian and Albanian Muslims and the Croatian Ustashi -- precisely the same groups we wound up championing in the 1990s. Now, because they have their own countries, they have a perfect entrance into the rest of Europe.
It's as though we are in the middle of WWII all over again, but the fascists now have millions of Muslims behind them and the US & Britain have switched sides. "Islam means Peace", my rear-end!
If this
is "The new World Order", it's going to get very ugly before it gets better -- if it ever does get better.