This could be a great opportunity for some anti-dhimmitude: a chance to raise awareness of the historical realities of jihad and dhimmitude. It's a Symposium for Remembering Victims of Genocide (thanks to Sparta and RB):
Jewish, Serb, Armenian, Greek, Roma people,For centuries, generation after generation of our people are subject to genocide. Let us unite in our demand that suffering of our peoples be finally recognized. Join our effort to organize symposium on this subject.
The symposium will be held in Belgrade on April 22-24. Send your experts, participate.
Ivo Andric, the Serbian writer who won a Nobel Prize (Bridge Over the River Drina, etc.), started life as so many of us do -- as a student writing a thesis. His was on the effect of Ottoman Muslim rule on the cultural life of Serbia and other parts of the Balkans. It was recently reprinted; it costs about $30. For many, it will be worth it. Too many fail to realize what the Serbs were worried about, and what worries them still. Too many in the West, having no conception of what Muslim rule meant (and Andric's book helps to explain what it meant) beyond the cruel devshirme, did not understand why, when Izetbegovic, the Muslim ruler of Bosnia, spoke openly about reimposing the Sharia, and re-establishing Muslim power in the Balkans (even when Izetbegovic died a year ago, the mellifluous Paddy Ashdown, presently the U.N.'s man in the region, said nice things about him, showing no awareness at all of how sinisister Izetbegovic really was, or of what the Saudis and other Arabs have been doing in the area ever since). Milosevic came to power because Serbs were terrified -- and they were more terrified because of the sickening abandonment of them by the Western world, beginning with the unseemly behavior, in pushing the breakup of Yugoslavia, by Germany, that never seems to put a geopolitical foot right.
Things were not helped by that casual observer of the world, Bill Clinton, who accepted all the usual anti-Serb views, and of course was, and remains apparently, completely unaware of what Muslim rule meant for non-Muslims, and above all for Serbs, in eastern and southeastern Europe.
If anyone can afford to go to Belgrade and report back, do so.
What about Hindus, eh Mr. Spencer? 60-70 million not enough?
Tushar,
Excellent question, but I am not involved in the organization of this event. I do suggest you contact the organizers.
Best regards
Robert Spencer