February 24, 2008
Letter to the Editor Toronto Sun Dear Editor: With an Albanian mother, there is no evidence necessary to show the crude and vile manner in which Eric Margolis has used his media access for the past decade to promote his ugly Serbophobia. It is disgraceful that he betrays a 1,000 years of Serbian history in Kosovo in which Serbs were a majority until the Holocaust when Albanian Nazi collaborators liquidated tens of thousand of Serbs and cleansed 150,000 from Kosovo. After the war Tito forbade their return and gave their land to these Nazi thugs. Not a single one of whom was brought to justice. Margolis cleverly conceals the fact that when Albanians gained their "Autonomy" in 1974 by Tito these same Albanian Muslims burned over 2 million Serbian books, ban the Serbian language and alphabet and fired most Serbs from their jobs. David Binder, the foreign correspondent for the New York Times, wrote dozens of articles during this period about the burning of Serbian monasteries, the rape and beatings of Serbian nuns and Serbian girls and the thousands of barn burnings that forced Serbs to flee from this "Autonomy." For good reason, Margolis never mentions the destruction of 153 ancient Christian Serbian churches in Kosovo in just the last 5 years, or the violent Albanian mobs who destroyed 3 dozen Serbian churches and burned 500 Serbian homes in 4 days in March of 2004 as 17,000 NATO troops watched in silence. NATO showed more muscle this week during Serbian demonstrations at the Mitrovica bridge then any time in the past 9 years. It is obvious who they are willing to defend. Of course Albanians love America, we have become their military and are giving them everything they want, bought and paid for by Uncle Sam. But few American taxpayers know that Kosovo has become the drug and gun running, human trafficking cesspool of Europe. Margolis belittling Serbian history in his article is the easiest form of racism that can get into print because most editors and readers of this trash don't have a clue about their own history much less Balkan history—As Goebbels said in 1942, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." What a disgrace that this newspaper rarely allows a Serbian writer access to your pages to defend ourselves against this brand of self-serving propaganda. William Dorich Los Angeles, CA The writer is the author of 5 books on Balkan history including his 1992 book, Kosovo, co-written with 7 Balkan historians.
