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I never said Serbians did not destroy Catholic Churches or Mosques. As the Catholics and Muslims did likewise. So your a liar when you claim I said otherwise. BUT THE SERBS WERE DONE IN UNDER NATO'S WATCH!!! As an American citizen I am nit responsible for teh actions of others, when my nation's military funded by my tax dollars occupies an area to defend "all sides" for "humanitarian purposes" and then allows under 200 Churches to be destroyed by Muslims--thats MY PROBLEM! MY BURDEN! MOY COUNTRY'S SHAME!!

This is what you said:

The Chuch destructions are in Albanian run Kosovo mostly.

For clarification, the dictionary definition of the word mostly is as follows:

1. For the greatest part; mainly.
2. Generally; usually.

Ergo, when comparing Church destruction in Kosovo and Croatia, the majority of destroyed churches are seen to be in Croatia.

You are a liar. QED.

You're also getting agitated - step away from the keyboard and collect your thoughts.

Yes, Destro, I understood what you are trying to say.

I did notice you were making a distinction between churches destroyed in midst of war, such as the dozen churches bombed in Serbia during the 78-day NATO air campaign, and those churches destroyed in Kosovo during the 43-month occupation of Serbia by NATO and UN forces.

Please pay no attention to those who put their anti-Serb bigotry ahead of elementary reading comprehension.

You may be interested in the following statement from the Serbian Orthodox Church about destruction of Serbian churches in Croatia and Bosnia:

The destruction of Serbian religious art and its historical and national heritage has virtually never ceased since 1941. During the Second World War, in addition to more than a million Serbian lives, over 400 Serbian Orthodox churches were destroyed. In the Diocese of Gornji Karlovac alone, out of 203 churches and chapels, 116 were destroyed and 39 heavily damaged during World War II. In the Diocese of Slavonia, 54 churches were destroyed and 21 seriously damaged. On the territory of the Diocese of Banja Luka, 64 churches were casualties, 21 damaged. Three monasteries were heavily damaged and one completely destroyed. One chapel and 38 parish homes were destroyed, 12 parish homes damaged. In the same Diocese, 98 monasteries and parish libraries perished forever, as well as 94 archives. One half of all the Serbian churches destroyed during the Second World War were located on the territory of these three Dioceses. After the War, the Communist regime, supported by latent nationalist forces, made the restoration and protection of Serbian churches and monasteries impossible, in some cases even explicitly forbidding it. In the former Republic of Croatia, institutions for the protection of historical monuments: the Regional Institute of Osijek and the Republic?s Institute of Croatia, deliberately neglected the Serbian religious and historic heritage. An example is how the Regional Institute of Osijek behaved regarding the restoration and protection of Orahovica Monastery, one of the most significant monuments of the Serbian people in Old Slavonia (Podravina). The present Monastery church was built in 1592, and decorated with frescoes in 1594. During the Second World War, the Monastery treasury was looted and carried away to Zagreb (it was only in 1985 that the surviving portion of the treasury was given back to the Diocese of Slavonia); the Monastery residences were burnt down on 19 August, 1942, at the orders of Janez Grga and Karlo Mrazovic Gaspar, Commander and Party Commissar of the Third Operational Zone of the National Liberation Army and Partisan Units in Croatia, respectively. After the War, Croatia?s institutions for the protection of monuments (after many promises) did nothing to protect and restore this religious and cultural center of the Serbians in Croatia.

I don't know if you ever saw the Mel Gibson film, "The Patriot"? In one memorable scene, the British locked American rebels in a church before setting it ablaze. It was an interesting scene, rich with irony, because that was exactly what Croatian and Bosnia Muslim forces did to Serbs in WWII.

Muslim boy standing in front of the ruins of a Serbian church in Mostar.

The church was destroyed in 1993. The photo was taken in 1999.