The Good Guys?
Karadzic in the dock. Or not, if he understandably carries on refusing to turn up. But what about the rest of them? Muslims good, Croats okay, Serbs bad? Wrong. Completely and utterly wrong.
To Croat children, he is Dred Božinjak, Father Christmas. To Serb children, he is Božik Bata, Christmas Friend. And to Bosnian Muslim children, he has been, for the last fifty years, Deda Mraz, Grandfather Frost, who comes round to schools and distributes presents. But not from last year. So not this or any other year, either. Or, at least, not in the public schools of Sarajevo for this white-bearded figure in a garb clearly modeled on that of an Orthodox bishop, although apparently he was invented by the Croats. And his clothes are red and white, leading one to question the veracity of the claim that the obviously related figure in Anglophonia, though certainly green at one time, was only turned red by Coca Cola.
I have had fierce debates because I have never tired of pointing out the strongly Islamist character of Bosnian secessionism. Well, how much more proof do you need? The present Bosnian entity is the creation, and the living continuation of the personality, of a Saudi-funded Wahhabi rabble-rouser who, moreover, had been typical of his people in his Nazi activities in the Forties. These two strands, which were related both in the Forties and in the Nineties, come together in the erosion of Christmas, which the Nazis also tried to do in Germany, even if without any success. Expect these schools, and other public institutions, to enforce Islamic dress codes, dietary laws and so forth in the very near future.
The Republika Srpska will declare independence sooner rather than later, and will deserve every support when she does. The Bosnian Croats are also coming round. The West backed the wrong side in Bosnia, as also in Kosovo, where the Wahhabism and the Nazi nostalgia are mixed in with heroin-trafficking, with prostitution, and with Maoism, which seems to be all over the place under Western patronage – Kosovo, Nepal, Rwanda, and in the neocon favorite lately running Portugal but now running the European Commission.
It has been suggested to me that, had the Yugoslav Wars been fought after 9/11, then the West would have been on the right side. But 9/11 was only possible because we turned Bosnia into an Islamist haven and cesspit. And the UDI in Kosovo came, of course, several years after 9/11. Will we never learn?
This has got to be the stupidest argument I have ever come across. Orthodox Serb Christians murdering thousands of innocent Muslim civilians in a genocide and destroying hundreds of mosques is placed on the same level as banning “Father Christmas” in public schools?! So Christians committing genocide is good but Muslims banning Father Christmas in public schools is bad?! The author makes several references to the Nazis which are completely and utterly unrelated to Bosnia. If anyone is to be compared to the Nazis then it is the Bosnian Serbs who have been convicted of having carried out genocide (ring any bells?). The author clearly has no sense of right and wrong or of proportionality. My recommendation for him is to go to Bosnia and to see for himself what people are like, also he should go talk to Bosnia Muslims and find out what they are really like. As it stands this article is the most craven form of hate-speech where the GENOCIDE CARRIED OUT against a defenseless Muslim people BY CHRISTIANS is completely downplayed and ignored and condoned. Shame on the author and shame on this website for publishing this rabble.
“But 9/11 was only possible because we turned Bosnia into an Islamist haven and cesspit.”
How do you figure? Did any of 9/11 hijackers train in Bosnia or were they Bosnian?
The central point is correct, the US and UK supported the wrong side(s) in the Jugoslav wars.
I might say, however, that I don’t see how ceasing to celebrate essentially Santa Claus makes Bosnia any closer to a fanatical Islamist state. I do think Albania, Kosovo, and Bosnia are less religious places than most of Christian Southeast Europe and won’t be seeing Shari’a anytime soon.
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—No. No chance. We supported Kosovar independence after 9/11 and then said the Serb-majority sections of Kosovo could not be allowed to split! Jugoslavija was the only real independent, non-Soviet bloc, non-NATO or EU-influenced area of 20th century Europe. It had to be broken up into manageable fiefdoms, a process led by Germany and the Euro-elites, and challenged weakly by individual politicians in some European countries who knew what was going on (Doug Hurd, Pasqua, Chevenement, Karamanlis, etc.). No other considerations were supreme to this before or after 9/11.
And of course 9/11 itself was just a pretext for the wars we have witnessed that were **planned in advance**. Even in the official conspiracy theory of 9/11, the hijackers mostly come from Saudi and UAE, countries with which we are still closely allied. But Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Waziristan, Hizbollah, and the Palestinians are the targets…along with, surprise!, any and all allies of Russia and China!
Back in the 90s, it also did not help us proponents of lasting peace in the Balkans that originally those right-wingers motivated by anti-communist hysteria as well as ultra-Catholics fell right in line behind the Croats, pretending the Serbs were Marxist-Leninists. Perhaps these are the same sorts of people who have good values and occasionally good analyses of cultural problems, but are all too quick to find an exterior scapegoat to attack (and spill blood)?