Wednesday, March 12, 2008

America, Know Thy "Friend"

Julia Gorin focuses on another aspect of the ongoing persecution of Christians by Muslims in Kosovo. This time by the destruction and desecration of Christian cemeteries. This is just another example of Muslim destruction of anything not "approved" by the Koran.
FROM POLITICALMAVINS.COM:

America, Know Thy "Friend"
By Julia Gorin (bio)

A Serb woman looks at a broken headstone in the south Kosovska Mitrovica cemetery (Tanjug)
And this is still with international oversight:

Kosovo Serbs remember their dead in desecrated cemeteries.

Kosovo Serbs yesterday marked Zadušnice, a religious holiday dedicated to the souls of the dead. Orthodox Christian Serbs observe four such days each year, when families visit cemeteries to light candles and say prayers at the graves of their loved ones.
For many Serbs in Kosovo, especially those whose relatives were buried in cemeteries that are now located in ethnic Albanian communities, observing the holiday has since 1999 been a practice that endangered their personal safety, but also brought with it a particular heartbreak — that of finding the grave of a loved one desecrated.
Serb Orthodox cemeteries and chapels located at the grounds are regularly vandalized, with tombstones broken and crosses ripped out, while those visiting the graves are escorted by UNMIK police.
The divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica is one such example – while the northern majority-Serb part has some Albanian and Bosniak inhabitants, no Serbs live in the southern, Albanian part.
But the Serb cemetery is located south of the Ibar River, which divides the troubled town. Yesterday, UNMIK and Kosovo police escorted some 400 Serbs from the north to the graveyard. As has been the case in the past eight years, they found it desecrated and derelict.
Reports said that approximately 80 percent of the Orthodox tombstones there have been vandalized.
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