My Trip to Kosovo and Bosnia
By Jesse Petrilla <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=4181>
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 5, 2007
I have recently returned to the U.S. from my trip through the Balkans which had
an aim to see what the ever expanding Middle East into Europe looks like up
close. Here is my after-action report for those who are interested in hearing
about a situation which may chillingly parallel future events in America if we
do not take action to prevent them today.
I landed in Kosovo on a flight from Istanbul directly into the Kosovo capital
city of Pristina. This city is a showpiece for the Kosovo Albanians who often
take visiting dignitaries and American politicians through a twisty roundabout
path through the city, avoiding the many destroyed churches and other evidence
of the less than tolerant attitudes so prevalent in the region. I went on a
very different tour of Kosovo than what our politicians see. I didn't stick to
only seeing the few good parts of Pristina, I went to other parts of Kosovo
where Christians are forced to live in military-like compound ghettos, with the
terror and fear of death if they ever set foot outside of their enclaves
without protection. I saw a rogue and wild west region with very little self
built infrastructure, and vast amounts of foreign money flowing in from Saudi
Arabia and other nations hell bent on exporting their extremist ideals. The
only real infrastructure I saw were remnants of Tito's Communist Yugoslavia,
with the current flow of money primarily being dumped into new construction
projects of Wahabi mosques and madrases. But what is scariest of all is that I
saw America several generations from now if we continue to allow Islamism to
spread through the socialist and naive policies so many American politicians
have adopted.
>From Pristina I headed for Gracanica, a small enclave of Christian Serbs who's
>ancestors have been living in Kosovo for thousands of years. Gracanica
>Monastery has been the site of Christian churches since the 6th century, yet
>when I arrived I was struck by the towering concrete walls adorned with coiled
>barbed wire and machine gun nests, all required now for the protection of the
>nuns and bishops who live there. The outside was also spotted with vehicle
>blockers reminiscent of Normandy Beach, with KFOR guards and vehicles
>patrolling to protect the Christians from Islamist attacks.
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