Posted on 07/17/2008 3:21:08 PM PDT by kronos77
Last update: 3:22 p.m. EDT July 17, 2008 GRACANICA, Serbia, July 17, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The following statement was issued today by His Grace ARTEMIJE, Bishop of Ras and Prizren, and pastor of Orthodox Christians in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija: "On July 21, President George W. Bush is scheduled to meet with Hashim Thaci, styled by some 'Prime Minister' of the separatist Albanian Muslim administration in the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija. As pastor of the Orthodox Christian people of Kosovo, I protest to the fullest possible degree the fact that President Bush would bring dishonor on his office and sully the good name of the American nation by receiving such an infamous terrorist, war criminal, and organized crime chieftain. "Such a meeting is particularly disturbing in light of President Bush's aspiration to leadership in the struggle of decent people everywhere against global jihad terrorism. In another context, he likened association with terrorists to seeking accord with the Nazis before World War II. ... "His record as a terrorist and war criminal is no less notorious. As a former commander of the so-called 'Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA),' Mr. Thaci bears primary responsibility for the terror campaign that has killed thousands of my flock and forced a quarter of a million to flee their homes in the province. Thousands of Serbian houses have been burned or forcibly taken over by Albanians, many of them illegal immigrants from Albania. Mr. Thaci's henchmen have demolished or desecrated over 150 of the churches and monasteries in my diocese. Particularly targeted for destruction have been crosses and icons of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the saints, giving proof to the Islamic jihad ferocity that motivates these attacks.
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Ping!
I’ve wondered where you’ve been kronos77.
Typical, IMO the Bush diplomatic efforts border on incoherent, hug a thug, how disappointing.
Latest news, new Serbian pro-western-pro-US government:
Democrats-Socialists... that is- commies supported by US admin...
It is depressing, Bush supports the elements of Islamic Radicalization, or rather, the agents of it, and suppresses Serbian Christians through such support.
“Burn a Church and build a Mosque” is the policy in Kosovo.
well i dont even know if this is true.
“Typical, IMO the Bush diplomatic efforts border on incoherent, hug a thug, how disappointing.”
Because God is indeed merciful, those Bush diplomatic efforts will be all over come January. It seems highly unlikely that, no matter who becomes president, the circumstances of Eastern Christians could be impacted more negatively by American foreign policy after that than they have been the past 8 years, though McCain might prove me wrong, given who he is financially beholden to.
Which part?
The destroyed churches? Here's a few of the 200 or so, destroyed. Just click on one for the before & after.
That Thaci is Albanian Mafia? That's a given.You can't be PM of one of Transparency Internationals top 5 "most corrupt countries, and keep your hands clean!
That the Albanian Mafia was organ trafficking? Even before Carla del Ponte's revelation about the KLA kidnapping Serbs for organ sale, the same accusation was leveled against Albania for buying & selling Albanian children for the purpose of trafficking their organs by The Council of Europe back in 2004 If they'd sell their own children for organ trafficking, what makes it a surprise that they would sell the organs of living Serbs?
You haven't seen anything yet if Obama is elected!
Good for Bishop Artemije! He is so right and I am so glad he has the you-know-whats to issue this statemetn. The truth is on his side. May God help him in his efforts!!
What I meant was I cant believe that Bush would meet with someone like that. Please excuse.
More Muslim fury directed at proud dhimmis (which, of course, is an oxymoron). “Muslims furious at anthem and symbols adopted by Bosnian Serbs,” by Daniel McLaughlin, for the Irish Times, July 17:
BOSNIA: BOSNIA'S MUSLIMS are furious with the country's Serb republic for adopting an anthem and emblems that allegedly glorify Serb nationalism and undermine what precious little ethnic harmony still exists in the divided country.
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Amid Western efforts to integrate the two "entities" and strengthen a central, multi-ethnic administration in Sarajevo, a court ruled in 2006 that the anthems and symbols used by each should reflect equally Bosnia's Muslim, Croat and Serb communities.
The new anthem adopted by the local parliament in Republika Srpska makes no mention of Bosnia however, and on the coat of arms approved by legislators the traditional Serb eagle and lion tower over puny Muslim and Croatian emblems.Definitely no sign of dhimmitude here---hence the "furious Muslims."
Muslim MPs accused their Serb colleagues of nationalism and discrimination, and vowed to challenge the adoption of the coat of arms and the anthem called "My Republic", which tells of a "country of the shining sun, where honourable and good people live".
Posted by Raymond at July 17, 2008 7:12 AM
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National pride? Oh, you can't have that! You'll upset someone (muslim).Posted by: Abu_Lahab ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 17, 2008 8:17 AM
Cool, Srpska! Time to pay back both the ummah as well as the West.
Srpska should follow through on this heroic deed by declaring its independence from Bosnia (which they are anyway all but doing), and following that, Serbia, Russia and Greece should instantly recognize this new country, and they should also lobby other countries that have been fence sitters on Kosovo, such as Israel, India, Thailand, et al, to come out and recognize Serbia. Once they do, it'll be upto the West and the Bosnian ummah to decide whether they want a repeat of what happened in Bosnia in the 90s.
"country of the shining sun, where honourable and good people live".Shame on the Serbs! How could they adapt such unislamic lyrics in their anthem? Instead, they should be singing about how they'll slaughter all infidels, and bring all of Bosnia-Hercegovina under the sword of Islam.
Memo to the Ummah States: what goes around comes aroundPosted by: Infidel Pride at July 17, 2008 8:56 AM
Srbska can't declare independance yet, because they will be bombed by NATO if they do so. In the Balkans only muslims are allowed to break away and create new states to expand the ummah. Rice and Holbrooke have repeatedly declared that Srbska should be destroyed and taken over by muslims.
Posted by: European Crusader at July 17, 2008 11:30 AM
"Land of a Thousand Dances" would make a killer national anthem.
/Celebrate diversity
//fight for whirled peasPosted by: MP at July 17, 2008 2:28 PM
Oh, those pesky Serbs...when are they going to learn to 'heel'? We bomb them in support of muslims, we rip their historic heart away to give to muslims, and still, they persist in their willful, proud manner...a shining example to us all.
Posted by: ujaklija at July 17, 2008 7:09 PM
Has this become a pro-Serb site now? People must have short memories, but I distinctly remember Serb snipers picking off civilians including children on the streets of Sarajevo, murdering 9000 men and boys at Srebrinica, and shelling the port of Dubrovnik for months. A bunch of cold blooded murderous often drunken cowards who sat on the hills above these cities and gloated at their victims.
The war in Yugoslavia has nothing to do with Islam. People in Croatia ( Catholic ), Slovenia ( Catholic ), were sick of being dictated to by the lazy corrupt incompetents in Belgrade, and broke away. That's what kicked the war off. Nothing to do with Islam.
The cheek of it, a pack of filthy murderers trying to present themselves as the saviours of Western civilization.
You can rewrite history back in your own regressive now-landlocked and small backwater.Posted by: melbourneman at July 17, 2008 8:37 PM
melbourneman.. you can spew ur islamist propaganda elsewhere!
Serbia is a GREAT Nation who are a bullwark against islam!!
WE Europeans do NOT want islam. Nor do Americans AND Australians!
Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it u moslem!Posted by: Ummah Gummah at July 17, 2008 9:56 PM
The Al-Qaida sympathizer known as Melbourneman wrote:
"Has this become a pro-Serb site now?"
Yes! We are pro-Serb and proudly so.
He also spewed this vomit:
"People must have short memories, but I distinctly remember Serb snipers picking off civilians including children on the streets of Sarajevo, murdering 9000 men and boys at Srebrinica, and shelling the port of Dubrovnik for months. A bunch of cold blooded murderous often drunken cowards who sat on the hills above these cities and gloated at their victims"
All of that has been disproven.
Now the facts...
Muslim snipers murdered Serbian (and Croat) children and other civilians. They piled up thier naked corpses in a way to conjure memories of the holocaust and then told gullible reporters that the bodies were Muslims killed by Serbs.
However, they made one glaring mistake: the naked corpses of the men and boys at Srebrinica were uncircumcized. This proves that they were not Muslims.Posted by: Provoslavni at July 17, 2008 10:24 PM
Melbourne Man
We are pro
Serb
Israeli
Jew
Hindu
Thai
Coptic
Maronite
Assyrian
The list goes on
While others can argue on the details, I have absolutely no problems with Serbs (or anyone else for that matter) giving Mohammedans a taste of their own medicine.
Also, what is sauce for the goose is ketchup for the gander. If Albanian Mohammedans who infiltrate into Kosovo can then claim it as a separate state, then what's the problem with Bosnian Serbs doing the same? At least, as a Serbian entity, they'll have the same freedom of religion that Serbs do (minus maybe the right to be Islamic supremacists), whereas under an Islamic Bosnian entity, they'd have to live under Shariah law - eventually.
Another news flash - the Serbs aren't trying to take over the world. Just their own country.Posted by: Infidel Pride at July 17, 2008 11:10 PM
Hooray for Serbia!Posted by: Fat Byzantine at July 18, 2008 12:09 AM
"The war in Yugoslavia has nothing to do with Islam." from Melbourneman
So the fact that thousands of jihadists (including bin Laden himself) came to Bosnia to fight alongside the muslims and slaughter Serbs had nothing to do with Islam?
What about "the Islamic Declaration", the book calling for introduction of sharia in Bosnia, written by Bosnia's muslim president Izetbegovic (former SS), had that anything to do with islam?
Posted by: European Crusader at July 18, 2008 8:58 AM
Well, Iran helped the Islamic cause in the Balkans and now Bush is going to meet with an Islamic puppet that poses as a champion of democracy.
Bush is hard at work converting Christian Orthodox lands into Islamic lands for Islam. I mean, after all according to Bush it’s all the same God. So, who cares?
I wonder if the Serbs were all Methodists if this would be happening.
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