Sometimes I ask myself what do we realy want and why do not we act like
we should act.
Let me explain myself. All we do is cry and repeat that those from the West are
our ennemies and that
"orthodox Russia" is our friend. Instead of accepring the helping hand which is
ready to help us, we refuse it for different reasons. Well, yes these Catholic
priests are right, and let them help us. Yes, we like Catholic priests and we
will do all te let them help us and our interests. Yes, we will invite Pope to
come and see wht is goinfg on in the Christian Kosovo, yes we will appeal to
our Catholic brothers in the West to come to help us against the islamic
invadors.
Why do not we start acting as we should and let our "Serbian
pride" behind.
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> To: <sorabia@yahoogroups.com>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [sorabia] Fw: American Council for Kosovo Addresses Misleading
> Assertions on Religion in Kosovo
> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 00:47:29 +0200
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> American Council for Kosovo Addresses Misleading
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> Assertions on Religion in Kosovo
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> -- Bishop Sopi: Roman Catholics less than one percent of Kosovo Albanians
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> in the face of rising Islamization --
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> WASHINGTON, June 6, 2006 ? As part of its mission to promote a better
> American understanding of the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, the
> American Council for Kosovo supports dissemination of accurate information
> concerning Muslim Albanian violence against Christian Serbs and their
> churches and monasteries. The American Council for Kosovo commends Cliff
> Kincaid for his essay ?Christians Under Siege in Kosovo? (June 1, 2006), in
> which he explains a ?foreign policy disaster in the making,? as jihad
> terrorist and criminal elements push for an independent Islamic state. In
> his essay, published by Accuracy in Media, an independent media watchdog
> organization unconnected to any side in the dispute over Kosovo?s future,
> Mr. Kincaid quoted Fr. Keith Roderick of Christian Solidarity
> International, a Christian human rights organization for religious liberty.
> Fr. Roderick, who visited Kosovo following the March 2004 riots during
> which Muslim Albanians destroyed and desecrated 35 Orthodox Christian
> churches, serves on the Advisory Board of the American Council for Kosovo.
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> As soon as Mr. Kincaid?s essay was published it was subjected to what
> appears to have been an organized effort to discredit the accurate
> information contained in it. Specifically, it has been suggested in mass
> e-mailings that Mr. Kincaid was incorrect in asserting that by indicating
> their possible support for Kosovo independence ?the U.S. and
>
> the United Nations are helping allies of Muslim terrorists come to power in
> Kosovo.? In an effort to discredit Mr. Kincaid?s accurate description of
> the jihad terror that threatens Kosovo?s Christians, it has been asserted
> that ?Catholics [in Kosovo] are not
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> endangered by Albanians (who themselves are more than 15% Catholics).? The
> testimony of Kosovo?s late Roman Catholic Bishop, Mark Sopi, is cited.
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> However, Mr. Kincaid is entirely correct in his observations and his
> critics are wrong. According to the same Bishop Sopi, as of 2001* Kosovo?s
> Roman Catholics numbered only 60,000 out of a population of some two
> million Albanians ? and of these (again, according to Bishop Sopi) some
> 40,000 were living abroad! That is, even if all of the remaining 20,000
> Roman Catholic Christians in Kosovo were Albanians, they would constitute
> only one percent of the total ethnic Albanian population in the Serbian
> province. (In fact, there are still a number of Catholic Croats living in
> Kosovo, almost all of them living in Serbian enclaves to avoid attacks by
> Muslim Albanians, so the percentage of Albanian Catholics in Kosovo
> undoubtedly is well below one percent.)
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>
>
> Criticism of Mr. Kincaid by citing Albanian Muslims? alleged tolerance of
> Albanian Catholics, while justifying violence perpetrated against Orthodox
> Christian Serbs and their holy places, is unfortunately all-too-typical of
> some minority Christians in majority-Islamic countries and ethnic groups
> who seek protection by adopting the radical agenda of their Muslim
> compatriots. For example, in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Palestinian
> movement was primarily nationalist and even communist, Palestinian
> Christians were often even more extreme than Muslim Palestinians in their
> terrorist zeal against Israel. This phenomenon was epitomized by the
> founder and leader of the ultra-radical terrorist organization, the Popular
> Front for the Liberation of Palestine, George Habash, who was from an
> Orthodox Christian family. But as the Palestinian movement evolved in the
> 1980s and 1990s from secular nationalism to jihadism, the relevance of such
> efforts was ceded to Islamic terrorist groups like Hamas and Palestinian
> Islamic Jihad. The end result has been a growing emigration of
> Palestinian Christians, who in many places are nearing extinction.
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>
>
> The almost complete disappearance of Albanian Catholics in Kosovo fits the
> same pattern. The fact that some Albanian Catholics (including some who
> are not from Kosovo at all) suggest that an independent Kosovo, illegally
> detached from Serbia, would be anything but a jihad terrorist rogue state
> are engaged in a deception. Or perhaps they are only fooling themselves.
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> The American Council for Kosovo (www.savekosovo.org) is a U.S. nonprofit
> organization dedicated to promoting a better American understanding of the
> Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija and of the critical American stake
> in the province's future. The Council's mission is to make accurate
> information and analysis about Kosovo available to officials of the
> Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Government; to think tanks,
> media, NGOs, religious and advocacy organizations; and to the general
> public. In particular, the Council?s educational activities will generate a
> heightened American awareness that an independent Kosovo ? forcibly and
> illegally detached from Serbia, as is now being contemplated by the
> international community ? would be harmful to U.S. national interests and
> to European and global security. The American Council for Kosovo is an
> activity of Venable LLP and Global Strategic Communications Group, which
> are registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as agents for the
> Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija. Additional information
> with respect to this matter is on file with the Foreign Agents Registration
> Unit of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.
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> * Guerre etniche: Una Fatalita -- Un esempio: IL Kosovo,by Enzo Dalla
> Pellegrina, edited by Caritas Vicenza 2001 (in Italian); facsimile
> available from the American Council for Kosovo. (?In Kosovo ci sono 60.000
> cattolici, ma di questi 40.000 sono all?estero.?)
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