A Bishop’s Lonely Struggle

The West is about to sell out the Serbs.........again. Everytime I hear someone tell me how the Albanians deserve to be able to steal Kosovo I wonder how they would feel if Mexico took back Texas and desecrated the Alamo........
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By Srdja Trifkovic Originally published on Chronicles Magazine February 14, 2006 --

When various Balkan potentates come to Washington, you can guess their ethnicity by the kind of treatment they receive. Albanian terrorists like the KLA leader Hashim Thaci do rather well. They are received at the State Department, which but a decade ago would have deemed them untouchable. They have full access to the mainstream media and publically-funded think-tanks to propagate independence for their mono-ethnic criminal fiefdom.

When Bishop Artemije of Rashka and Prizren, the spiritual leader of Kosovo's beleaguered Serbs, comes to Washington, he stays with friends in suburban Maryland who drive him hundreds of miles to meetings in Chicago, Pittsburgh, or Cleveland. He is received in Washington by low-to-middle ranking bureaucrats who listen to him politely but repeat stock platitudes that should be too embarrassing to utter by now ("we want a democratic, multi-ethnic Kosovo, in which each group will be able to prosper in peace and security," und so weiter, und so weiter).

The reason for the discrepancy is simple. Bishop Artemije has no money because he is not dealing drugs; he has no armed thugs under his command; and he is telling the truth, warning that "working for Kosovo’s independence is to prepare, consciously or unconsciously, the ground for a militant jihad and terrorism in the heart of Europe, which will put at risk all democratic values of Europe and of America itself." That is not what the U.S. government and its European partners want to hear.

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