ALBANIAN MUSLIM DESECRATION OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN KOSOVO
By Sherrie Gossett
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
August 15, 2005
INTRODUCTION (RA)
“For the past 10 years … Ayman al-Zawahiri (bin Laden’s second in command) has operated terrorist training camps [and] weapons of mass destruction factories throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia … Though the Clinton administration had been briefed extensively by the State Department in 1993 on the growing Islamist threat in former Yugoslavia, little was done to follow through”. Wall Street Journal November 2001
“Posing as members of the Real IRA, we … made our deal in Kosovo, a breeding ground for fanatics with al-Qaeda links. Our contact was the deputy commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army Niam Behljulji … [who allegedly supplied] terrorists across Europe and has been accused of massacring Serbian women and children during the war. He even posed grinning for a photograph, holding the severed head of one of his victims.”Sunday Mirror, December 2003
The illegal and obnoxious support by Blair and Clinton of the war waged by German Europe to destroy Yugoslavia is well documented on this website. Now we see how the Islamic extremism which British German and American money has financed and supported militarily in Bosnia and Kosovo (and increasingly in neighbouring Macedonia) is a growing threat to the whole of the West, to Russia – and even now to China which is worried about the stability of its Muslim province of Xinjiang. Christian Orthodox Serbs were a historic bulwark against Islamic imperialism for centuries and an ally against European Fascism in the 20th century.
NATO’s ally in Bosnia was President Alija Izetbegovic who wrote in the Muslim Declaration “There can be no peace or co-existence between the Islamic Faith and non Islamic institutions..The Islamic movement must take power…”
But by doing the will of the Vatican (which with the massive ethnic cleansing of the Krajina, Bosnia and Kosovo has pushed Orthodox Christianity further eastwards) and Germany (which has restored the petty fascist statelets of the Nazi era) in destroying Yugoslavia the British and US Governments have massively boosted the worst kind of Islamic fanaticism. The price, as 53 Londoners found, will be great – but let us not forget which politicians are responsible.
(CNSNews.com) – International intervention to halt the persecution of Christians in Kosovo is a “complete failure,” according to past and present diplomats who briefed Capitol Hill staff late last week. They pointed tothe destruction of 150 churches and the simultaneous construction of 200 mosques.
Cybercast News Service obtained video of the burning and desecrating of the churches by ethnic Albanians, most of them Muslim. The new mosques are funded by “Wahhabist nations,” the diplomats said, raising the specter of radical Islam incubating on the doorstep of Europe in a province rife with illegal arms and narcotics trafficking.
The religious persecution also is part of a political strategy of violence, which – if rewarded by granting independence to Kosovo – could trigger similar violent secessionist movements throughout neighboring states and countries, they warned.
Unfolding events in Kosovo already have sent shock waves to as far away as China, which has now expressed concern to the U.S. over the possible copycat secession in its predominantly Muslim Xinjiang Province.
Kosovo, an international protectorate administered by the United Nations, is part of Serbia and Montenegro, but the legal authority of the region is the U.N. Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). The province is considered one of the jewels of Christian heritage, having served as the ‘Vatican’ of Christian Orthodoxy from the 12th century onward. Serbs, who are predominantly Orthodox Christians, constitute a minority, as do Turks, Roma (gypsies) and Muslim Slavs. Eighty-eight percent of Kosovo’s population is made up of Muslim Albanians.
The attacks and ongoing persecution are seen by some as the purposeful targeting of the very symbols of Christian European civilization.
Between 1999 and 2004, approximately150 churches, monasteries, seminaries, and bishop residences were attacked by ethnic Albanian mobs. Many of the churches contained priceless Byzantine frescoes and other religious artifacts dating as far back as the 13th century. Many of the sites were reduced to rubble.
