TERRORIST PLOT UNCOVERED. SERBIAN CITIZEN CAUGHT WITH 30 LBS OF EXPLOSIVES. PLANNED BOMBING CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN KOSOVO. ANALYSTS BLAME SERBIAS GOVT. This is the breaking news that I woke up to this morning. Why would the Belgrade government order an attack on the Prishtina cathedral? The answer is simple: to blame it on Kosovos predominantly non-Christian population. Serbian propaganda has always depicted ethnic Albanians as Muslim fundamentalists, despite their religious diversity and tolerance. The barbarian state of Serbia again defies the civilized world today with terror and treachery. The Romans once called this a casus belli—a cause for war. But the Serbs then defeated Rome and enslaved Kosovo. But again, why would Serbia do that? The answers now a little harder. First, Serbian leaders need a way to cover their failures. Traditionally, they have favored territorial expansion as a cure to a declining economy and massive national debt. Second, Serbia is a candidate to join the European Union. To gain admission, the Serbian government should normalize relations with its neighbors. Kosovo has been an independent country since 2008, but Belgrade calls it Serbian territory that must submit to Serbian law. The supranational bloc hasnt specifically asked Serbia to recognize the new nation. Yet Germany, as Europes powerhouse, has made it clear that Belgrade cant get both EU and Kosovo. Hence the Serbian president, nicknamed the Gravedigger, announced this week that his country would have to deal with the Kosovo issue again. On Christmas Day, Kosovar police arrested the Serbian citizen suspected of planning a terrorist attack. It almost worked. The Mother Teresa Cathedral—named after the Albanian Catholic nun—would be razed to the ground, and an increasingly anti-Islamist Europe would rise to condemn the terrorist act of Kosovo Albanian Muslim fundamentalist. With its prophecy fulfilled, Serbia would schmooze its way into the European Union. This wouldve happened on the day I facebook-shared a black-and-white video about the interfaith fraternity of the Albanian people. As to the Serbs, British author Edith Durham once wrote: It was not astonishing that the Serbs hated Islam, but that they should fiercely hate every other Christian Church I did not expect. Albanians are indigenous to Kosovo and make up about 90 percent of the population, with ethnic Serbs accounting for about five percent. Yet Kosovo was once the geographic center of a medieval Serbian empire, a fact that Belgrade has unscrupulously manipulated to support its territorial claims. The Serbian government and academia have persistently pursued an anti-Albanian agenda. The most recent of recurring plans to exterminate ethnic Albanians and colonize their lands was drafted by the Serbian Academy of Sciences in 1986. Prior to that, Nobel Prize laureate Ivo Andrić had also written on expelling Kosovos native people. The modern Serbian state has initiated over 10 wars of aggression in less than two centuries of its existence. In 1914, Serbia provoked World War I, after refusing to turn in the Serb terrorists who killed the Austro-Hungarian crown prince. Most other conflicts have centered around Kosovo, which Belgrade repeatedly invaded, occupied, and annexed—in 1877–78, 1912, 1918, 1944, and 1989–90—after brief periods of liberation. The last Kosovo war (1997–99) was particularly gruesome. Belgrades plan for ethnic cleansing was halted only by the U.S.-led NATO alliance, which launched an air campaign against Serbian forces. When the latter withdrew, they had displaced from homes around 90 percent of the population and driven about a million or half of the Kosovars out of the country. Serbs brutally murdered over 10,000 civilians, including children and pregnant mothers, and raped over 20,000 women and girls. Kosovo was placed under international administration in 1999, and declared independence a decade later pursuant to a plan sponsored by the United Nations. But Serbias refusal to come to terms with the new reality continues to threaten peace and stability in Kosovo as well as Europe. Often times, the West will show a growing tendency to appease Belgrade and ignore its warmongering behavior. Serbias traditionally close ties with Russia forewarn of Putins hand in the heart of Europe, and the Free World must compete for approval by the unruly state. And that acknowledges something: the regions future lies in the European Union. That includes Serbia. But Serbia cant have it both ways. It can be one with Kosovo only as sovereign and good neighbors united in Europe. Serbia, however, is ill. And the Free World must be tough. Along with the carrot, one needs the stick to cure the socio-political illness of chauvinism.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 21:56:38 +0000
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