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Kosovo is independent from Serbia

Sunday February 17, 2008

Categories: International

As of today, when Pristina declared independence, on America's watch.

I know, I know, the Serbs. I spent much of the 1990s cursing them for what they did to Sarajevo, and I don't take any of it back. Still, pardon me for not popping Champagne corks over the creation of a new Islamic state in Europe.

More here. And here. This is a day that we will all come to regret, I fear.

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Timelag
February 23, 2008 11:43 AM

So let me get this straight: Your disdain, distrust, and fear of a country declaring independence is based entirely on the religious affiliation of the people involved, not on the declaration itself, which after all is how our own country started.

Yet if anyone displayed that kind of blanket condemntation of you for your own religious beliefs, you'd be screaming oppresion and intolerance. If anyone even expressed the same kind of distrust, fear, and suspicion entirely based on your religion, you'd be doing the same. This is certai.

You people "of faith" never cease to amaze me. Truly.

If Jesus returned and saw what has been done in his name he'd never stop throwing up.

Timelag
February 23, 2008 11:58 AM

I have a complaint. After reading your "rules of conduct" I'd like to point out that someone is violating them.

I'm not going to be impolite, or aggressive, or engage in any of the other forbidden modes of behavior in your rules, so I hope you won't delete this post just out of gratuitous censorship.

In your list of things that aren't allowed here, I find that posts won't be allowed by anyone who:

"uses Beliefnet community functions primarily to harass or censure any person, group, or entity;"

This seems fairly clear, and yet there is a passage here in direct violation of this. That passage is this one:

"Still, pardon me for not popping Champagne corks over the creation of a new Islamic state in Europe.

More here. And here. This is a day that we will all come to regret, I fear. "

The poster clearly means to both censure and condemn an entire group, in a fact rather large one, simply for their religious beliefs. Harrasment is also likely, seeing as how I imagine this site is filled with similar comments about Muslims. If somoene repeatedly condemns an entire group, I would think this qualifies as harrasement, wouldn't you?

Since the offending poster is yourself, I can see that this might be a bit of a dilemma here.

Your move.

Sincerely.

General_Rennenkampf
February 23, 2008 3:14 PM

The only reason this Islamic state exists *at all* is that it survived centuries of Eurochristian ethnic cleansing. Since the Christians drove the Ottomans out, Albanians in Kosovo have been attacked by Serbs, Croats, and Tito. Due to their Islamic faith. I'm surprised, honestly, that Hitler never tried to exterminate *them* the way he did another unpopular group throughout Europe: the gypsies.

Gribblor
February 25, 2008 9:08 AM

Actually, you may be surprised to know that Hitler had Kosovan Muslim troops fighting for him. He was also particularly fond of them and issued specific instructions to the German Army and SS in an attempt to prevent conflicts between the christian Germans and the Muslim Kosovans.

Ivan Erdeljan
March 1, 2008 10:35 PM

I pray for the day when I will see the same thing happening to all countries that recognized independent Kosovo and Metohia.
I beg to see every miser happening especially to the USA.

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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.

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