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| Kosovo churches boomed... |
| 2002-11-17 |
| Explosions ripped through two Serb Orthodox churches in western Kosovo, marking the first such attacks in more than a year. Explosives damaged the interior of a church in Djurakovac, 30 miles west of Pristina and completely destroyed a second church in the nearby village of Ljubovo, U.N. spokesman Andrea Angeli said. No one was injured in the explosions late Saturday and early Sunday, Angeli said. Churches in Kosovo have often been targeted in the past, in part because they are symbols of the years of Serb dominance under former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Most ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are Muslim, though the southern Yugoslav province is largely secular. The jihadis who flocked there weren't, though, and they've been trying to build an Islamobase... Bishop Artemije, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo, blamed the United Nations and NATO for the attacks, charging that lax security measures made it possible for attackers to act. I'd blame the crazed killers, myself. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 As I recal, the library at Alexandria was actually burned by the Christians. Many religions have things like this in their closets. Of course, most religions grow out of it. |
| Posted by: parallel 2002-11-18 07:50:49 |
| #1 Every Orthodox Church in Muslim dominated sections of Kosovo has either been desecrated or destroyed. Some of the frescos and murals dated to the 14th century. From the burning of the Alexandria Library, for its possession of works that did not conform to what "Allah said" in the koran, the the Taliban's destruction of the Buddhas, Islam practices a scorched earth policy to other cultures. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-11-17 21:54:51 |