And Muslims have the nerve to expect to be able to pray in Christian Churches, and to broadcast their azan in Christian neighborhoods. Where is the Pope on this?

He wanted reconcilliation with the Orthodox -- a good way would be to speak out against these atrocities directd at the Orthodox church.

Islam is on the move.

The looting of our capital cities, the raping
of our daughters and the slaughter of our
sons awaits us.

Will somebody lift a finger to stop it?

The use of the Church of Our Savior in Pristina as a lavatory confirms to 1350 years of Muslim conquest. There are the tens of thousands of Buddhist and Hindu temples and statuary destroyed in present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, even Indonesia. There are the churches turned into mosques, or rather -- their buildings destroyed and their stones used for mosques.

One should recall that the Jordanian Army, by far the least bestial of the Arab armies, as it was trained, and led, by Gluff Pasha, Sir Alec Kirkbride ("A Crackling of Thorns") and other Englishmen, nonetheless, when it seized the Old City, not only destroyed every one of its 37 synagogues, but took the ancient Jewish tombstones on the Mount of Olives, and used them to pave army latrines. The latest architectural feat in Pristina conforms fully to this pattern. Nothing exists save Islam, or can exist. Wherever Islam conquers, whatever had importance is ignored, or allowed to fall into ruin, or if it happens to be a religious site dear to another religion, will be desecrated in the cruelest possible manner.

How much of the evidence of our senses, of the testimony of eyewitnesses to what happened in the past, of what we know must logically follow from the tenets of Islam, are we expected to continue to ignore? And when will state policy be based on a comprehension of Islam, rather than a wilful refusal to comprehend?

This cannot go on.

"Will somebody lift a finger to stop it?"
Posted by: jp at April 19, 2004 01:48 PM

Buy a good gun (or 3 and don't forget to buy reloading equipment), It might ultimately come to that.

Pardon my ignorance if I am wrong, but I believe that the Roma are Gypsies, not Muslims.

My dear FH:

You are correct. The Roma are indeed Gypsies, not Muslims. However, their presence at this site, and the availability of the church to be abused this way, is a consequence of the actions of those who, as the article puts it, want an "ethnically pure, Muslim Kosovo."

Best
RS

You are preaching to the choir...get the word out. We already know the truth.

Nathan:

It will take more than one man with a gun to stop the Jihad. It will take the entire Western world united in purpose to destroy this Jihad.

Remember the Crusades lasted for 200+ years and ultimately failed. Most of Western Europe participated in that venture.

Frankly, the people of Europe are castrated... not sure they can help much.

Dear Friends - jp states that "the people of Europe are castrated…" Let's make sure that the gelding knife doesn't come close to us.

Come on, people! Islam is a religion of peace.

I thought that Islam respected all monotheistic faiths.....perhaps I have been lied to....no!no!no! - I have simply misunderstood - this is not the TRUE Islam - because Islam respects all monotheists.....this desecration tells one and all where any other faith besides Islam stands under these Islamic fascists!

jihan

We used the one and only solution on Hiroshama and Nagasaki. Unacceptable we all say but I bet it eventually comes to just that.

The great lingering ghost over all this is the wholly ineffectual presence of the UN. And this is the organization that Kerry and Nader think will work miracles in Iraq?

I wonder if we made a big mistake to oppose Milosovic -- the same international press which today opposes Bush in fighting the Islamists, back then focused upon Serb crimes. Clinton pushed to force out the Serbs, but nobody has said much to stop the new giant Wahhabi Mosque in Kosovo, built with Saudi money, and around which one now sees veiled women. And soon, jihadis of all sorts -- the attack by the Jordanian UN policeman upon Americans may be just the opening shots.

Oregon James--"I wonder if we made a big mistake to oppose Milosovic..."

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the other day that one of his generals had his sentence reduced to 35 years. Milosovic and party may have been way ahead of their time.

I don't think I'm the only who believes that we (the U.S.) may eventually come to the same conclusion in order save ourselves.

Milosevic is a murdering bastard. So was Stalin; but we had to choose Stalin over Hitler as the lesser of two evils. It's a foul choice to have to make, but we may be heading that way again.

You have to take your allies where you can find them... blast it.

Hello:

The Balkan wars during 1990s were very confusing to me; now that time has past I am sure we chose the wrong side.

Islam a religion of peace?

Yeah - it will be, once all Moslems are converted sincerely to Buddhism, which actually does enshrine the peace which the Moslems falsely profess to be the character of their cult!

(Alas, this'll never transpire: apostasy from Islam earns immediate capital punishment.)

I think we now know why Clinton supported the Balkan Muslims against the Orthodox Christians, and continued to bomb throughout his regime.

The Albanian national struggle in Kosovo has nothing to do with religion.  Only the so-called "Orthodox Christians"  are obsessed with it in the Balkans:  a legacy of the Ottoman rule,  which divided its non-Muslim subjects according to their organized religion,  which it kept under control. 

On the other hand,  the Saudi attempt to import Wahhabism in Kosovo ended in an even worse failure than in Bosnia

"By mid-2002, however, the Saudi troublemakers had failed in their elaborate attempt to impose Wahhabism on the Albanians, and they seemed to have had enough of dealing with the Kosovars.

"The Muslims here behave like Christians," said Hadi, leader of the Saudi workers involved in the Pristina episode, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "They have accepted living like in Europe. I think in 10 years it will be worse. . . We will not stay.""
(Stephen Schwartz, "Our Allies in the Balkans", Weekly Standard, 17 June 2002)

And no predominantly Muslim nation  gives more support  to the war on terrorism  than the Albanians  who,  unlike the Arabs http://www.meforum.org/article/166/,  remember who saved the indigenous http://www.albanian.com/main/countries/kosova/documents/ducellier.html Kosovar Albanians from a planned extermination attempt on the part of the Serbian Communist regime http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=794&reportid=151 in 1998-1999.

An Albanian unit is operating in Iraq now http://www.balkantimes.com/html2/english/030826-WMI-010.htm
It even had a soldier killed there http://www.crienglish.com/144/2003-9-17/38@44155.htm

The Albanian national hero is Scanderbeg,  whom Popes Pius II (1458-1464) and Nicholas V (1447-1455)  called "the Athlete of the Christ"  (Athleta Christi) for his resistance to Muslim invasion http://www.elsie.de/pub/download_a/A1993Disraeli.zip. 
So if there were a religious reference in Albanian nationalism,  it would be  a Christian one. 

The Albanian Catholics in Kosovo, 10 % of the population,  also support as a matter of course  the national struggle  for a long overdue independence  http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/marmay98/serbia.cfm,  and that is why Milosevic had them murdered and deported like the others in 1999 http://www.sffaith.com/ed/articles/1999/0999ss.htm. 

In recent history,  Kosovo has only served as a political football for the rulers in Belgrade  who have used it  to manipulate public opinion  in the service of  their ambitions

Similarly, as evidenced by Balkan scholars Andrew Herscher and András Riedlmayer

"Kosovo’s Serbian Orthodox buildings — both surviving medieval monuments and the products of twentieth-century church construction programs — have served as proxy for a Serb population to substantiate Serbian state sovereignty [claims] over Kosovo" http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=796&reportid=151

A majority of members in the DSS,  the party of the present Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica,  are former Members of Milosevic's Communist — rebaptized "Socialist" —  party.  Most of the Serbian establishment is a legacy of the Milosevic years  and keeps his policies alive http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=1075&reportid=163.

The Kosovo Serbs,  who have only suffered  from Belgrade's several annexation attempts in the 20th century (1913, 1918, 1944 and 1989),   generally vote for the Radical Party,  the most openly extreme pseudo-nationalist creation of the Serbian secret police,  also led by a Hague detainee,  Vojislav Seselj, who openly advocated the extermination of the Albanians.

Thus, the so-called "Church of Christ the Savior" in Prishtina was not a treasure from the Middle Ages, nor was it intended for non-existent church-goers —  the Serbs are one of the most de-christianized peoples in Central Europe : it was an uncompleted item, built on stolen premises, in yet another program of church-building in Kosovo by Belgrade's imperialism.  

The Milosevic Communist regime had launched it in the 1990 to bolster its claims on Kosovo, a territory which is 90 % Albanian, and which the Serbian Social-democratic leader Dimitrije Tucovic had rightly called "a foreign land" in 1912 after the first invasion — and first massacre, of 20,000 Albanians —  by the Serbian army.

That is why this kind of "church" has been treated by the Albanians for what it was: not a place of worship, but a symbol and an instrument of their oppression.

Neither are the "representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church" who propagandize about its "desecration" innocent Christians suffering from unprovoked Muslim persecution.
Most of them are themselves Nationalist leaders, advocates of hatred and ethnic cleansing. The bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren, Vladika Amfilohije Radovic, is a well-known Nationalist and an admirer of Fascist and anti-semite theologian Nikolaj Velimirovic http://www.rferl.org/reports/eepreport/2004/02/4-180204.asp;
Therefore, his complaints about the "barbarity" of Kosovo Albanians looks like a clear-cut case of a kettle calling the pot black.