Accuracy in Media
Christians Under Siege in Kosovo
By Cliff Kincaid | June 1, 2006
There is no question about the reason for the destruction.
While the U.S. fights Muslim terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S.
and the United Nations are helping allies of Muslim terrorists come to power
in Kosovo, a province of Serbia. This is a foreign policy disaster in the
making that you should hope and pray gets some immediate attention from the
media. To illustrate the dimensions of the problem, Father Keith Roderick of
Christian Solidarity International http://www.csi-int.org/ has testified
that Albanian Muslims in Kosovo have been systematically destroying
Christian churches and other sites in Kosovo and the Serbian Christian
population in the province is being "squeezed down to oblivion." The
evidence is on display in a new DVD, "Days Made Of Fear,"
http://www.daysmadeoffear.com/dvd.html directed, produced and distributed
by Ninoslav Randjelovic.
At the same time, Father Roderick also says that hundreds of new Mosques
have been built in Kosovo over the last several years, financed mostly by
Gulf Arab money.
The excellent DVD consists of 8 different films, but the most explosive is
"Notes About the Rock," on the destroyed and vandalized churches and
monasteries in Kosovo. Many of the scenes captured on film are considered
the only video documentation on this subject available.
There is no question about the reason for the destruction. The churches were
targeted by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), also known by the acronym UCK.
These initials are visible on the ruins, like a calling card. They openly
advertise their anti-Christian Jihad, but our media pay no attention.
Writing for the Byzantine Cultural Project and reviewing the DVD, Theodoros
Georgiou Karakostas comments, "The footage of ravaged and destroyed Serbian
Churches and Monasteries is appalling. The DVD is a shocking affirmation
that the American television Networks such as CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, and
the others are all lined up with the foreign policy establishment and are
active practitioners of official censorship. I cannot recall seeing any of
the horrifying footage on this DVD on American television."
He adds, "The same U.S. media which continues to attack the Bush
administration for lying about the Iraq war, continues to give Bill Clinton,
Madeleine Albright, Richard Holbrooke, Wesley Clark, and Samuel Berger a
pass for their destructive war on Yugoslavia. We should remember also that
at the last Democratic National Convention in Boston two years ago, one of
the top KLA men was an honored guest of John Kerry.
"The same U.S. media which was appalled by the Taliban's destruction of the
2,000-year-old Buddhist statues has nothing to say about the remarkable
Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries which have stood since the period
preceding the Ottoman conquests, and which are being systematically
destroyed."
Why are the media ignoring what is happening in Kosovo?
One reason, as explained in the book, Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting,
http://www.mediacleansing.com/ is that the media reported the war wrong and
now refuse to report who has really been victimized by it. Another factor is
that the much-vilified neoconservatives got Kosovo wrong, too. As I noted in
a Media Monitor, http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A339_0_2_0_C/ "In 1999
the neocons supported the NATO war on Yugoslavia launched by President
Clinton. That benefited a Muslim terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA), with links to Osama bin Laden." The neocons thought they were
supporting a tougher and a new NATO.
To compound this tragedy, the Bush Administration has continued the
misguided Clinton policy on Kosovo.
Let's remember that Clinton ordered U.S. military intervention in the
Balkans against the Christian Serbs on the grounds that "ethnic cleansing"
and even "genocide" were being waged against Serbia's neighbors. Most of
that was hokum. Serbia, a U.S. ally in World War II, was being ruled by the
communist Slobodan Milosevic, who was desperate to hold on to power in the
former Yugoslavia, which included Serbia. While Milosevic was a problem, the
Clinton "solution" made the problem worse. Clinton gave the green light to
military aggression against the Serbs and even ordered the CIA to provide
support to the Kosovo Liberation Army, which was allied with Osama bin Laden
and radical Islamists. The U.S. bombed Serbia and forced Milosevic, who was
later turned over to a U.N. court, to capitulate. Milosevic recently died in
a U.N. prison.
Kosovo, like the American southwest, has been deluged by outsiders, who now
want political power. In Kosovo they are Albanian Muslims, many of them
illegal aliens from neighboring Albania. They want, with U.S. and U.N.
support, to turn Kosovo into an independent Muslim state. The Bush
Administration should stop-not accelerate-this madness.
If the Albanian Muslims succeed in taking over a province of Serbia, with
U.S. and U.N. support, and establishing their own independent and sovereign
state, then why should Mexicans balk at taking over the U.S. southwest? They
must figure, with good reason, that the U.N. can be counted on to help them.
The cover-up of the persecution of Christians in Kosovo is another scandal
for the media. It shows that when they agree with the Bush foreign policy,
which in this case involves the establishment of a Muslim state in Europe
and is a continuation of the Clinton foreign policy, they will utter NOT one
word of criticism.
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Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at
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