Theme Park executives and investors are looking toward the untapped Middle Eastern market for the next big amusement park, as they try to overcome the hurdles that make the concept a bit tricky, the AP recently reported in a piece popularly headlined Superheroes fly into Middle East:

Wonder Woman, King Kong and Shrek are heading for the Persian Gulf as part of the rush to build what could become the world’s largest theme park playground. But even as the ink dries on the billion-dollar deals in the United Arab Emirates, movie studios are grappling with ways to make their signature characters and amusement parks fly in the conservative Muslim region. Politically sensitive characters such as Captain America could be left at home.

Indeed, I can already hear Wonder Woman protesting, “I can’t work in a hijab!…And what the hell is an abaya?”

Naturally, when the superheroes are first assigned their new mission, there will be some confusion, with the characters assuming they’re going to the Persian Gulf to kick some anti-American, jihadist butt. After reminding the studios that their death-proof capabilities stop at suicide bombings, since only some of the X-Men have reassembling abilities, the superheroes will learn from executives that no, they’re being sent in to defend the Muslim populations, not take them on.

“Ohhhhhhhhh,” Spiderman will finally understand, “You mean these are the folks we’re supposed to…protect? Well that sounds a lot easier! Uh…from what, exactly? Global warming?”

Just think of Superman’s dilemma when those he was sent to protect stage an atrocity and tell him, “The Jews did it!” Will he fly to Israel, as exhorted by Allah’s flock, to erase the Zionist enemy from the map once and for all?

If the superheroes do the right thing and refuse, they will be stoned, bombed and accused of being as Jewish as the American military in Iraq — and the superheroes will have no choice but to turn against the very people they were sent to protect. Especially when the local populations hear that Superman is from Metropolis and Batman is from Gotham — that is, Hymie Towns.

Somehow, “Truth, Justice, and the Arabic Way” sounds a tad oxymoronic.

What will the filthy, un-Islamic canine sleuth Scooby Doo do? And given that King Kong is a giant ape, some customers might object to such a large Jewish presence at the park. For that matter, what is Porky Pig doing in the ad above? Here’s a projected picture of Porky after the Looney Tunes Riots:

Consider also the problematic case in which a damsel in distress requires the help of Aquaman, who snatches her from the jaws of death or worse, rape. Only now Aquaman has handled the girl, since saving people requires physical contact, so before he moves to save her, Aquaman has to think carefully: What’s worse — letting the victim succumb to her untoward fate, or save the victim only to be accused of fornication and thereby doom her to an honor killing? Such will be the wrenching decisions that our superheroes have never had to weigh before. And what to do when they spy a forlorn eight-year-old child bride of a pedophile? Who’s the good guy and who is the bad?

If our superheroes make the wrong decisions in such conflicted close calls, they could wind up at the mercy of Sharia law. But Superman won’t be able to fly as well with an amputated leg, and Wonder Woman needs both hands to repel bullets with her bracelets.

Most likely this is where our superheroes will draw the line and declare a strike, telling Marvel, Universal and Warner Brothers, “This isn’t what we signed up for.”

While “investors, studios and park operators are all aiming to cash in on what some observers call the Middle East’s decades-long fascination with American culture,” only Iran has a realistic sense of how minimal the potential here is:

“The displays of personalities such as Barbie, Batman, Spiderman and Harry Potter…are all warning bells to the officials in the cultural arena,” according to Iranian Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabadi, who said that these imports pose a threat to the ‘identity’ of the new generation.

Thank God someone still has his bearings. Suggested name for such a park: Never Land.

So what is it that the U.S. government isn’t telling us when it wants us to think that Serbianationalism is responsible for a high turnout in favor of the Serbian Radical party? Could it be that, rather than Serbianationalists, the problems in Kosovo have something to do with Albanian violence?

The Bulgarians in Kosovo Chose the Anti-European Vote

The Bulgarian-speaking [and Serbian-speaking] Gorani minority in Kosovo and Metohija has preferred to vote for the Serbian parties, which oppose the signed agreement with EU for stabilisation and accession.

On the presidential elections last year, the Gorani minority supported Boris Tadic while this time most of their votes have been given to the Serbian radical party of Tomislav Nikolic and the Democratic party of Sebia of Voislav Kostunica.

Fashion design just got a lot easier: “Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students design abayas”

RICHMOND, Va.—The assignment for Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students: Design an abaya — a head-to-toe women’s overgarment…

I think I did this for Halloween once: you take a square sheet, cut out two holes for eyes, and throw it over your head. Eat your heart out, Coco Chanel!

Ah, so they found each other. Over the past two years, I’ve laid out a few reasons that explain why Muslims and Croats would have an affinity for each other — the most historical foundation for it being their co-killing of Jews and Serbs. I’ve also pointed out that, next to Muslims, the most bloodthirsty and sadistic lot — indulging in as colorful a killing spree as any mujahed — are the Croatians. Some photos of dead Serbs, that I’ve recently published — whether dead at the hands of Albanian or Bosnian Muslims, or Croatian Catholics – illustrate this point well. Below is another illustration:

Serbian pig killed by Muslim Albanians

Serbian pig killed by Catholic Croats

So here, finally, we have the two hordes — Muslim and Croatian — developing more formal cultural sharing programs than the sharing they already do:

Iranian cultural week underway in Croatia

TEHRAN, May 13 (MNA) — Iranian cultural week is currently underway in Osijek, Croatia and will run until May 17.

Book fair, children’s book illustration exhibits will be held during the week and some stories from Rumi’s Masnavi will be staged on May 17.

A meeting on “Mystical Thought in the Persian Literature” will be held at the city library on May 16.

On May 15, another meeting on Iranology entitled “The Persian Gem” will also be held during the week to introduce Iran’s tourist attractions to Croatian citizens.

Dariush Mehrjuii’s “Mom’s Guest”, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad’s “Mainline”, Abbas Rafei’s “The Sun Shines on All”, Azizollah Hamidnejad’s “Tears of Cold”, Kiumars Purahmad’s “Night Bus” and Bijan Mirbagheri “Day Coming” will be screened at Cinema Urania of the city.

The event is sponsored by Iran’s cultural attaché office in Zagreb.

Last month I had a blog titled “Greater Albania can’t be Stopped“, quoting the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Director of South Eastern European studies, Martin Sletzinger. Here we have it from the Albanians themselves — just one example of what MacedoniaOnline, which interviewed Sletzinger meant when it said that some Albanians “did not get the memo that their plans are not to be made public” yet:

Kosovo spurs more Greater Albania dreams (from Russia Today, March 11):

Encouraged by Kosovo’s independence, Albanians in Macedonia are now discussing ambitious plans for a new country made up of Albania, Kosovo, large parts of Macedonia and part of Ipiros in Greece.

If you walk down the streets of Skopje, the capital city of Macedonia, the signs and the language is Slavic.

But if you drive just 25 kilometres on, it appears to be a completely different country where the language and tradition is Albanian and the religion is Muslim - that’s Tetovo. In 2001, civil war broke out there between Albanian and Slav populations. Nowadays it’s more peaceful.

Small restaurant owner Agim Berzati says Albanians are treated as second-class citizens in a country where they make up at least 30% of the population. He’s Albanian and the food he serves up is traditional kebab and shishlik alongside Turkish coffee.

“We are born here and deserve equal rights. Macedonians don’t give us equality. I don’t feel they treat us with respect. There were lots of things we fought for and were promised in 2001, but nothing has been implemented,” he complained.

But what has changed though is Kosovo’s declaration of independence. For Mustafe Hasani it was the dream of a lifetime. He spent a month in prison for his political activities and for years he’s donated part of his salary to developing an independent Kosovo.

“We only want an ethnic Albania, for all the Albanians in all the countries to get together. Now is the end of protest and war. Now we Albanians have to get educated and then we’ll get what we want. Albania is like our mother, Kosovo is our father,” Hasani thinks.

What many Albanians want is a greater Albania that incorporates the country Albania, Kosovo, big parts of Macedonia and part of Ipiros, which is in Greece.

Tailor Shahin Osmani, Albanian who has lived all his life in Tetovo believes a greater Albania is inevitable and will happen once the country becomes part of the European Union: “There will be a time of great Albania in the future, maybe after thirty years. History repeats itself, and if we get into the European Union, borders will be eliminated. We’ll be free and it’ll be like having a greater Albania.” […]

Over the weekend I wrote a response for Jihad Watch to a blog post by war reporter Michael Totten in Commentary magazine online, titled “This is a Kosovar Muslim” and showing a photo of a Kosovo Albanian wearing a pro-USA sweatshirt.

The following morning, Dr. Andrew Bostom , author of Legacy of Jihad, forwarded an exchange he had with Totten about his post (it starts with Totten’s response to Bostom’s initial query):

TOTTEN: You do know that the majority of people here are atheists, right? There is no religious state or religious majority. “Dhimmi” does not apply to anyone here. The local troubles are ethnic, not religious. Catholics are very deeply respected. It is the Serbs and the Orthodox who are not, thanks to Milosevic and his apartheid and ethnic cleansing regime.

You are never going to understand this place through a Muslim/infidel lens.

BOSTOM: Do you think “secular/atheist” Kosovo will join the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference], which has clamored for its creation?

TOTTEN: I don’t know. But I wonder why you are putting “secular” and “atheist” in quotation marks. Do you actually believe most people are religious Muslims? I wish we could have this argument in Prishtina. It would be a different argument.

BOSTOM: Not only don’t you know (why you don’t know, or won’t at least hazard your best guess is one question), you apparently don’t think the question is relevant, when what actually happens may be pathognomonic of the problem of creating truly secular Muslim societies in the first place…Can’t you see that? The OIC serves one primary purpose: Islamization. Why would a secular society need to join such an entity?

TOTTEN: Albania joined in 1992, and Albania is overwhelmingly atheist, even more so than Kosovo which is also majority atheist. I’m done arguing with you about this, Andrew, unless you come out here.

BOSTOM: It probably won’t register with you, but “secular” (NOT!) Turkey — which has progressively re-Islamized since the Menderes government was elected by pandering to an Islamic revival in 1950, and now has an openly fundamentalist govt which represents a majority fundamentalist populace — is a major player in the OIC, and a (rather vile) Turk heads the OIC.

Again, I ask you, why would any truly secular nation be part of the OIC?

Let’s start with Totten’s most embarrassing and callous but commonly used canard about the Serbs: “It is the Serbs and the Orthodox who are not [respected], thanks to Milosevic and his apartheid and ethnic cleansing regime.”

In addition to U.S. policy analyst Martin Sletzinger’s casually stated comments that it is “nonsense” to think that Kosovo’s becoming a country has something to do with Milosevic’s supposed oppression — and in addition to the fact that when Sletzinger started working in Congress in the 1970’s, the Albanian lobby was “giving us maps of Iliria, which included Kosovo, half of Macedonia, a good portion of Montenegro, and of course Albania” — we also have Andy Wilcoxson laying it out in this post:

On April 2, 1981, rioting erupted in Kosovo. Nine people were killed and scores injured as police broke up a mob of 10,000 ethnic Albanian demonstrators who were rampaging through the streets of Pristina smashing shop windows and destroying factory machines. The demonstrators, some armed with guns and firing at the police, pushed children in front of them to make it more difficult for security forces to disrupt the march.

The Yugoslav Government said the rioting was the “worst outbreak of separatist demands” since World War II, and imposed martial law to bring the situation back under control. Eyewitnesses reported that cars and trucks were overturned and burning in the center of Pristina while the army guarded public buildings and ambulances toured the streets to pick up the injured.

The separatist nature of the rioting was clear to one and all. When the New York Times reported on it their lead paragraph read: “Yugoslav tanks and troops took up positions today in a province in the south to put down anti-Government riots by Albanian separatists … the separatists want to unite with Albania, the small and selfisolated Communist country on the Adriatic.”

According accounts published in the Washington Post, the demonstrators were said to be chanting “Long Live Enver Hoxha” along with slogans demanding Kosovo’s unification with Albania.
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Things flared up in Kosovo a month later when Pristina University was forced to close its doors amid student demonstrations demanding Kosovo’s unification with Albania.

In 1982 Becir Hoti, an ethnic Albanian official in Kosovo’s ruling Communist Party, explained the situation quite well. He told the New York Times: “The nationalists have a two-point platform. First to establish what they call an ethnically clean Albanian republic and then the merger with Albania to form a Greater Albania.”

This is significant because today’s Western narrative claims that the Kosovo-Albanian population wants to secede from Serbia because they allegedly suffered mistreatment under the rule of Slobodan Milosevic.

That thesis is exposed as fallacy because Slobodan Milosevic’s political career didn’t even begin until 1983, when he took a job as economic advisor to the mayor of Belgrade…Kosovo-Albanian separatism had already erupted violently in 1981 and 1982 — long before the public even knew who Slobodan Milosevic was.

Totten’s State Department ventriloquism reminds me of this unbelievable sentence from a November email from, appropriately enough, a “Wilhelm”:

The reason orthodox churches are burnt is only due to their identification with Milosevic-type politics not because Albanians are Muslim let alone them being extremists.

What this airhead is saying is that as the Albanians increasingly expose their long-awaited designs on the region through, among other things, the ongoing, viscerally carried out destruction of Orthodox churches eight years after the Serb-led ouster of Milosevic, we should instead believe that this has something to do with the 1990s decade, and not with the similar attacks on Serb holy sites in Kosovo that went on for a century before that, including during WWII when Greater Albania was undergoing a similar ascension, under the sponsorship of Adolf Hitler. Like Totten, Welhelm wants to believe that the desecration and destruction of thousand-year-old churches by Albanians not only has nothing to do with religion (despite the demonic-like zeal with which Albanians pried off, by hand, the crosses from the churches during the 2004 pogrom), but it doesn’t even have to do with the ethnic intolerance which preceded Milosevic and which tripled after his ouster — that is, after the Albanians were “freed”.

Never, never has the world seen such a persistent, widespread, irrational and singular hatred as that reserved for Serbs. Even age-old anti-Semitism doesn’t compare, given that there are so many thinking, fair-minded people who don’t engage in it. In contrast, people who otherwise have minds make sure not to use them when Serbs are involved.

Notice Totten’s insistence on continuing to use the term “ethnic cleansing” in reference to Kosovo regardless of how many times and ways that notion has been debunked — including by every major U.S. paper in late 1999 after Americans lost interest in Kosovo, and most recently by documentation I provided in my Jihad Watch response to his piece. But Serbs aren’t worth the trouble of a mouse click.

On Totten’s ventriloquism regarding the religious question — “There is no religious state or religious majority…The local troubles are ethnic, not religious. Catholics are very deeply respected” — here is Chris Deliso on Kosovo’s direction, based on developments in long-independent Albania:

Perhaps the most significant emerging trend in the case of Albania is the rise of internecine strife based on religious difference. Rallying a decade ago under the nationalist banner of “one nation, three religions,” the paramilitary KLA claimed support from Muslim, Catholic, and Orthodox Albanians during its war in Kosovo. Today, while most Albanians still do feel their ethnicity strongly, religious tensions have nevertheless been growing. In october 2003, police arrested author Kastriot Myftari, charging him with inciting religious hatred against Muslims for writing that Albanian Muslims should convert to Catholicism.
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In the northern, Catholic majority city of Shkodra, which borders on Montenegro, mutual provocations between Catholics and Muslims are suddenly emerging. A cross was put up in the city, and then mysteriously vandalized in January 2006. And when civic leaders decided to honor national hero Mother Teresa with a statue, three Muslim groups — the Association of Islamic Intellectuals, the Albanian Muslim Forum, and the Association of Islmaic Charities — publicly protested. The [Albanian Muslim Forum], which allegedly supports interfaith relations, declared that a statue of one of the world’s most renowned humanitarian figures would be a “provocation” to Muslims, and that the religious situation in Shkodra was “not so calm.”

Deliso also explains that “the end of the national question in Kosovo is the beginning of the religious one, as new challenges to the social and clerical order arise from radical Islam.”

Regarding Catholics being “deeply respected” in Kosovo: Aside from Catholics and Muslims having some deep roots in eliminating Serbs and Jews together during WWII, I addressed Kosovo’s religious “pluralism” in my blog post titled “Kosovo’s Religious Pluralism“, which demonstrated, among other things, how an Albanian Catholic priest felt more in common with, and was better to, Albanian Muslims than his Croatian Catholic flock. Because the point is Albanianism Uber Alles. Until it isn’t. As Jim Jatras reminds us:

Typically these begin as what are represented as “national liberation movements,” the desire of a group of people described in national or ethnic terms — Algerians, Afghanis, Kosovo Albanians, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Iraqis, etc. — to have their own independent national state. But at some point — either after achieving that goal…or in the process of the “national liberation” struggle…the movement shifts to a primarily Islamic jihad orientation, in which the national element is downplayed and the jihad element is emphasized. This transition coincides with the marginalization or elimination of the non-Muslim social elements (Christian Arabs, Albanian Catholics, etc.), some of whom may have been militant supporters of the first, national phase but who will have no future in the Islamic new order.

But apparently the big picture is irrelevant to Totten, who is interested only in what he observes on the surface and two feet in front of him. Trends? What’s that? Indeed, what is all this nonsense about the Islamization of the world and a caliphate forming? You don’t see me wearing a burqa, do you?

Let’s hear from another Catholic Albanian priest:

Some tensions appeared after the war. In its December 1999 report, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation, OSCE, said that following the withdrawal of Serbian troops from Kosovo, ethnic Albanian fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, were harassing Catholic Albanians over their alleged lack of commitment to the KLA cause.

The OSCE report said: “Catholic Albanians and evangelical groups have faced continued intimidation and harassment.” It went on: “A common feature of many attacks was the underlying intention to force minorities to leave and/or to ensure their silence through fear. This strategy was effective.”

According to a US State Department report for 2003, certain Catholic-populated areas within Kosovo had previously been “under suspicion of collaboration with the Serb regime,” adding: “Such suspicion was fuelled by the fact that Catholic Albanian villages suffered relatively little damage during the conflict.” [Indeed, clearly they weren’t doing enough for the KLA terrorists/separatists.]

The Catholic Church in Kosovo condemned ethnically-motivated riots in 2004 when dozens of Serbian Orthodox Churches and other properties were damaged or destroyed. “I felt ashamed after what happened in 2004. We were under some pressure as well,” said a Kosovo Albanian Catholic who has since moved to neighbouring Montenegro.

Gosh, I wonder what made him move out of Kosovo. But notice that this Albanian feels shamed by the actions of his fellow Albanians, and considers them reprehensible. Too bad Totten can’t be as honest. But then, Serbs deserve to suffer, according to Totten’s first paragraph at the top of this post. Note also that bullying of Catholics in Kosovo didn’t start only after the war, but was practiced in the 70s and 80s as well, and many of the Albanians who moved out of Kosovo (often to Serbia) along with the Serbs who were fleeing in those decades were Catholics. From one of my earliest articles on Kosovo, based on an interview with a Jew who was raised there (Branko, whose brother is Slobodan):

Slobodan’s best friend, Bardy, was a Catholic Albanian married to a Serbian woman. “He had just called me a few months ago,” Branko reminisces, “because he was so excited about his new dog — a Rottweiler, like so many in America have. When the KLA came in with NATO, he was killed, just for not being a ‘good’ Albanian.”

Another friend, a Serb named Ilija, died while an “internally displaced person” in Serbia, from what Branko calls “sorrow and anger.”

The Serb Ilija, the Albanian Bardy, and the Jew Slobodan were three best friends who got married on the same day, alternately serving as one another’ s best man.

As for Totten’s point about most Albanian Muslims not being religious, surely we don’t have to explain that a Muslim doesn’t have to be religious to sympathize with the cause and buy into the universal Muslim sense of aggrievement. He also states above that there is no religious majority, which is strange, given that about 95 percent of Kosovo is Muslim. That these Muslims are still recovering from their communist-imposed atheism is irrelevant. But it shouldn’t be too long a process, given that Islam is a popular religion among recovering atheists. Does Totten think that Kosovo lends itself to Islamic indoctrination less than Russia, where “especially the atheist groups are gradually getting inclined towards Islam because of extensive propaganda and activities of the Islamist NGOs.” And here is something related from a 1994 article in the London Chronicle by former Thatcher adviser Sir Alfred Sherman:

[I]t should be noted that in Britain and Western Europe, individuals and groups faithful to Moscow’s line in world affairs for years, though mainly atheist, inexplicably back the Muslim fundamentalist government [of Bosnia].

Incidentally, does Totten think that the Bosnia war we abetted, which brought Bosniaks exponentially closer to Islam, doesn’t have echoes in the Kosovo war we abetted?

Totten’s shrug at Albania’s membership in the Organization of the Islamic Conference, meanwhile, is also worth noting. Like I said, all thinking is suspended if the subject is the Balkans. Here was the OIC upon Kosovo’s “independence”:

RIYADH (Reuters) - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference has welcomed Kosovo’s declaration of independence, saying it would be an asset to the Muslim world.

“Kosovo has finally declared its independence after a long and determined struggle by its people. As we rejoice in this happy result, we declare our solidarity with and support to our brothers and sisters there,” Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the head of the OIC, said at the opening of a meeting in Dakar on Monday.

“The Islamic (umma) nation wishes them success in the new battle awaiting them, which is the building of a strong and prosperous state capable of satisfying its people. There is no doubt that the independence of Kosovo will be an asset to the Muslim world and further enhance joint Islamic action,” he said in comments sent to Reuters.

It doesn’t matter if both we and the Albanians take Totten’s advice and steer clear of seeing “this place through a Muslim/infidel lens.” The umma certainly sees Kosovo through a Muslim/infidel lens — as was the premise of Deliso’s book and the reason for its title The Coming Balkan Caliphate.

“‘Dhimmi’ does not apply to anyone here,” Totten admonishes Bostom. Aside from the fact that one can be a dhimmi just to the Albanian violence being threatened should their cause not be promoted to its conclusion (as that Hungarian parliamentarian demonstratedwhen he explained the awarding of a state to an intolerant population by saying “we’re afraid of them”), what do you call the populations (Serbs, Croats, Roma, Jews and even Gorani Muslims) who are at the mercy of their Albanian-Muslim “hosts” in the event that the armed KFOR guards blink?

Beyond that, there is this fact: Even if dhimmitude weren’t being imposed by the master population on the untermenschen in its mist, or on the master population’s Western benefactors, that doesn’t mean people won’t behave as dhimmis preemptively, of their own accord (we are seeing this everywhere now) in an attempt to please the wider population of Masters. We started calling Albanians ‘Muslims’ and declaring the Kosovo project to be about the U.S. creating a Muslim state in Europe even when the Albanians didn’t — with Tom Lantos asking Muslim countries and jihadists to take this action into consideration, and outgoing Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns hailing support for Kosovo from the OIC and “happily claiming that a ‘vastly majority Muslim state’ has been carved out of Serbia, a European Christian country.”

Which brings us to a phenomenon that I’ll call Dhimmi Irony. Because despite our efforts to please our masters, only five out of 57 member states of the OIC (which includes a “Palestine” that would benefit directly), have recognized Kosovo’s independence:

More and more countries are getting ready to recognize Kosovo’s independence, but many are hesitant, including some Arab and Muslim countries despite Washington’s appeals to display solidarity with Kosovo Muslims.

During a briefing on Kosovo after its declaration of independence, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns welcomed the recognition of this step by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and hence, by the governments of its member countries. He said: “And we think it is a very positive step that this Muslim state, Muslim majority state, has been created today.”
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Today, the most urgent issue is whether Kosovo will create a precedent for other territories. This is why many Muslim and other countries do not rush to accept Kosovo’s independence. The United States hoped for Islamic solidarity, but in vain.

Only three [sic] OIC members - Turkey, Afghanistan and Senegal [plus Albania and Burkina Faso] - have recognized Kosovo’s independence out of almost 60 members of the organization. Others have adopted a wait-and-see attitude because of the potential threat of a domestic split, or destabilization in neighboring countries.
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For the time being, no politician in these conflict-prone zones has loudly expressed readiness to follow Kosovo’s example…Kosovo’s independence is threatening primarily because a decision on it was made without a UN Security Council resolution. It is solely based on the support of the United States and some European countries. In other words, political circumstances have prevailed over international law.

To close, here is a blogger lamenting the lack of Muslim solidarity in walking the Kosovo walk and not just talking the talk:

“When Will Pakistan Recognize Kosovo Independence?”

With the new government one hopes Kosovo is recognized sooner rather then later. The above map shows the countries which have recognized Kosovo in blue. The ones who are expected to soon are shown in yellow. It is startling how many countries in the Middle East are still to recognize the country.

By the way I do not support how Kashmir is shown as a part of India in the map. I got the map of a website called ‘Kosovo Thanks You.’ The Kosovons of all people should know about the struggle for freedom of the Kashmiri people.

For a laugh, here is a comment under the post, from “Kosova_girl”:

Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan….cmon people, support your muslims brothers and sisters. I am sooo dissapointed by the lack of recognition by so many muslims countries. Oh and then we wonder why are muslims always oppressed.

Just a few hours after I explained on Jihad Watch what was wrong with Michael Totten’s pro-Albanian-supremacist post on Commentary magazine’s website, the following item was posted on the site. It concerns an article that came out in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle last week on the one-year anniversary of the Ft. Dix arrests of four Albanians, the significance of which becomes clear if you notice that the woman’s name is Albanian. Introductory comment by JW director Robert Spencer:

She says she’s just being singled out because she is a Muslim. And I’m sure that’s true. I’m sure there are plenty of 911 operators illegally searching the terror watch list, and they’re getting off scot-free. It’s Islamophobia, I tell you, and I’m not going to take it anymore!

“Ex-911 operator accused of illegal database searches“, May 8:

A former city 911 operator faces multiple felony counts for illegally searching state driving records and state police databases that included the FBI’s terrorist watch list, officials said Wednesday.

The fired employee, Nadire P. Zenelaj, 32, of Rochester insists she did nothing wrong and is being singled out because she is Muslim.

“I feel they targeted me because of my religion,” said Zenelaj, who worked at the 911 center for nearly six years. “I have no criminal history. I have never gone against the law.”

Richard Vega, director of the city’s Office of Public Integrity, said Zenelaj was “running personal information on herself, on her family and on friends. I think it went beyond curiosity. … We think she was accessing this information to pass it on to others.”

What the above paragraph means is that she was checking on whether the names of fellow Albanians appear on any criminal or terrorist watch lists yet. Perhaps friends and relatives asked for this information, perhaps not. Either way, this behavior fits the context of the Albanian red flag that my Jihad Watch piece tried to raise, and what I was correcting Michael Totten about. After all, if anyone should be far removed from any such activity, it’s a young Albanian woman born and raised in America, as Zenelaj was. Furthermore, imagine how different the scene in Greater Albania would be if the U.S., NATO and UN started cracking down on crime and actually enforced laws in and around Kosovo; if instead of turning a blind eye to the weapons going into Macedonia and Serbia proper, they were confiscated. Imagine if Albanians were held accountable for the people they kill and brutalize — and one by one the Albanians’ KLA heroes ended up in jail. How pro-American would Albanians be then? How quickly would Albanian terror against Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins and other locals turn into terror against the U.S.? (For a clue, count the number of UN vehicles blown up in Kosovo over the past nine years.) But no one is enforcing any laws in or near Kosovo, so there is very little anti-American sentiment or activity that we hear of.

Even here, imagine if instead of treating gun smuggler and law breaker Florin Krasniqi as a friend of the U.S. and giving him a pass on his criminal activities and fundraising for the KLA — which operates here with impunity — how pro-American would he be then? All of a sudden you would hear from Albanians, as you do from Zenelaj, that they are being discriminated against as Muslims, and the crutch of jihad would start to loom larger in Albanian life.

At least one of the 227 names that Zenelaj searched for was on the terrorist watch list, according to police. She was fired in December, arrested Tuesday and pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor official misconduct and 232 felony counts of computer trespass — one for each allegedly illegal search.
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The databases, according to the city, include “highly sensitive” confidential information, such as outstanding arrest warrants and restricted law enforcement records…Vega said the investigation of Zenelaj was triggered after an employee saw something that looked suspicious and went to a supervisor. The police complaint states that all or most of the allegedly illegal searches occurred on Jan. 2, 2006, and on Oct. 26, 2007. Zenelaj did not have the ability to add to or delete information from the records, Vega said.

She was fired in December for various violations regarding unauthorized access of computer information and violations of the City of Rochester Ethical Standards of Conduct. Since then, local authorities have been working with state officials to build a criminal case, Vega said. No additional arrests or charges are expected.

Vega said misconduct was the sole reason for Zenelaj’s termination. He added that the city even went back through training materials and records to try to find any support for Zenelaj’s claims [in her defense]. However, anyone who went through the training signed a document agreeing not to search personal information, he said.

Trainees also had to take a test, which included a question that specifically addressed the prohibition against personal searches. “She got that question right,” Vega said.

Zenelaj was sent home on pre-trial release Wednesday, and is due to return to City Court at 9:30 a.m. May 21.

Corroborating her national origin — naturally avoided in the article above — was this local news site, which mentions that Zenelaj is of Albanian descent and born in NY City.

Now we just have to ask why, if Albanians are not defined by their religion — and they’re not– an Albanian would play the Muslim victim card. Answer: They learn quickly.

Now let’s ponder the irony of Muslims working for 911.

Two of a kind inevitably collide:

More than 100 Slovenians blocked Slovenia-Croatia border (April)

Ljubljana — More than 100 Slovenians blocked for a short period of time today the border between Slovenia and Croatia with a demand to receive back a territory subjected to a dispute, AFP reported. ‘We are here to defend our legal right, the Slovenian sea and our territory’, Marijan Potocnik, one of the initiators of the protest said.

Croatian Barbarians Vandalized Four Vehicles with Bosnian License Plates in Dubrovnik

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (May 6,2008) - Croatian barbarians have damaged four vehicles with the Bosnian license plates in the southern Croatian town of Dubrovnik on Friday. Insults and offensive symbols were written on the vehicles, stated the release of the Bosnian Foreign Affairs Ministry….The Ministry condemned this act of vandalism.

The Bosnian Ambassador to Croatia, Aleksandar Dragicevic after he found out about this incident contacted the city authorities of Dubrovnik and asked for the protection of the Bosnian citizens and their property from the Croatian barbarians.

Ambassador Dragicevic shall demand a meeting at the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss this incident.

What is there to discuss? If people make their own beds, they should lie in them. Without regard for national borders, Slovenia and Croatia seceded, taking control of Yugoslavian border posts. Then Bosnia did the same, ganging up with Croatia against the Serbs. Now they’re all having just a wee bit of trouble among themselves. Life is beautiful and God is a poet. What needs dicussion?

Iran official sees “destructive” Barbie influence

Imports of Barbie dolls and other Western toys will have destructive cultural and social consequences in Iran, the Islamic Republic’s top prosecutor was quoted as saying [last] Monday.

Iran’s conservative clerical establishment often rails against the perceived dangers of U.S.-inspired culture and consumerism, branding it “Westoxication.”

Well no wonder they’re always so anti-Occident!

Related: Meet Dara and Sara, Iran’s answer to Ken and Barbie.

The Muslim dolls have been developed by a government agency to promote traditional values, with their modest clothing and pro-family backgrounds. They are widely seen as an effort to counter the American dolls and accessories that have flooded the Iranian market.

Toy seller Masoumeh Rahimi welcomed the dolls, saying Barbie was “foreign to Iran’s culture” because some of the buxom, blonde dolls have revealing clothing. She said young girls who play with Barbie, a doll she sees as wanton, could grow into women who reject Iranian values.

“I think every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile,” Ms Rahimi said.
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The siblings help each other solve problems and turn to their loving parents for guidance.

The children are supposed to be eight years old, young enough under Islamic law for Sara to appear in public without a headscarf.

Great. So the only Iranians allowed to get aroused in public are the pedophiles.

Meanwhile, to help the siblings help each other solve problems, Dara’s accessories include a knife in case Sara turns nine but forgets to put on her headscarf outside.

…Another toy seller, Mehdi Hedayat, said: “Dara and Sara are strategic products to preserve our national identity. And of course, it is an answer to Barbie and Ken, which have dominated Iran’s toy market.”

Let me see if I have this straight. Dara and Sara are the Iranian Barbie and Ken? What is the mullahs’ penalty for incest? Those aren’t her eyes he’s looking at:

Aw, look — Dara and Sara couldn’t compete with Ken and Barbie. What a surprise:

Authorities launched a campaign of confiscating Barbies from toy shops in 2002, denouncing the un-Islamic sensibilities of the iconic American doll. But the campaign was eventually dropped.

Also in 2002, Iran introduced its own competing dolls — the twins Dara and Sara — who were designed to promote traditional values with their modest clothing and pro-family stories. But the dolls proved unable to stem the Barbie tide.

Note to the murderously pious: Get a grip. Even God likes to see a little skin here and there. Recall his answer to Ken and Barbie: Adam and Eve.

Carla del Ponte’s allegations that Albanians slaughtered Serbs for their organs aren’t the first to surface about Serbs being used in medical mischief. According to the 2003 statement below, Croatians did it too, in addition to draining Serbs of blood for their Serb-killing paramilitary machine. Vukovar, Croatia, 1991:

Involuntary blood taking from Vukovar Serbs (with supplementary deposition and statement)

Among the gravest crimes committed in the Vukovar Hospital…is involuntary blood taking from Serb civilians, who were for this particular purpose forcefully brought into the hospital by the members of the ZNG [Croatia’s self-styled “National Militia” guilty of countless crimes aginst Serb civilians and POWs ]…

The victims were brought in — usually from various shelters or prisons, where they were held hostages — to the transfusion department of the Vukovar Hospital or to one of its improvised outpatient departments…

Some of [the Serbs] were apprehended at the order of Jastreb, commander of Croatian armed forces in Vukovar, and kept in custody in the ZNG military police prison in the basement of the city hall building until a wounded Croatian soldier would need a transfusion of a particular blood group.

Blood was forcefully taken usually from those Serbs whose blood type was O Rh-negative. According to the testimony of hospital personnel, at least 450 ml of blood was taken from them, so that many experienced serious health problems afterwards.
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Dr. Vesna Bosanac was traded in a prisoner exchange after the fall of Vukovar. Dr. Bosanac was accused of the murder of numerous Serbian patients under her care, whose blood was deliberately drained and given to wounded HV Croatian soldiers. Upon their death, the vital organs of these Serbian patients were removed and sold on the black market in Germany. Eyewitnesses have come forward to testify to these facts.

Ironically, not only has Dr. Bosanac not been charged with war crimes, she is one of the tribunal’s chief witnesses!

In the past, Croatian readers have asked me to address the “Vukovar Massacre”, which is how they — much like Bosnian Muslims on the subject of Srebrenica — depict what happened to Croatians in Vukovar once the Yugoslav Army got the upper hand and a battle ensued. In particular, Croatians decry that the mostly Serb Yugoslav soldiers didn’t exclude the above-referenced hospital from the gun battle. But the above-cited report (along with numerous other sources) explains that the Croatian soldiers/killers ran into the hospital to hide among civilians and patients:

In late 1991, the Yugoslav Army captured the city of Vukovar from Croatian forces who had been systematically ethnically cleansing the Serb minority in the city…A Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy article in London in December 1992 said “At least 1,000 Serbs, mostly women, old people and children, were shot, knifed, axed or bludgeoned to death systematically one-by-one, in two main centres…One visiting Croat female journalist during the Vukovar fighting, unfamiliar with firearms, asked one of the young gunmen to cock a pistol for her so that she could feel what it was like to kill a Serb. She shot, indiscriminately, an old Serb woman who was standing under Croat guard.”

In November 1991, the Toronto Star said that “a photographer reported seeing black plastic bags containing pieces of the bodies of children about 5, 6, or 7 years old.” When Serb forces broke through and discovered the grisly scenes, Croatian soldiers, in an attempt to escape justice, fled to the protection of the Vukovar hospital and became patients.

I’ve acquired some photographs of the dead Serbs of Vukovar and nearby Gospic (where just last year cafes were using sugar packets with Hitler’s image and Holocaust jokes on them). These are the photos you won’t see on the walls of Holocaust museums because they’re simply too gruesome, and because most of the museums guard the real story about the 1990s ‘genocides’ as carefully as the governments that subsidize them. For there can be no Serb “victims”. These killings were in 1991, shortly before the U.S. stepped in to help Croatian fascist revivalists kill more Serbs — as we continue to do today in Kosovo. The photos appeared in the March 1993 issue of the now defunct British magazine Living Marxism, my convergence with whom I explained here. The article was titled “Hidden side of the Yugoslav war: the pictures they don’t want you to see”, and explained:

The British government has banned an exhibition of photographs showing atrocities committed against Serbs in the civil war in the former Yugoslavia…under sanctions imposed on Serbia by the United Nations. Croatian and Muslim groups from the former Yugoslavia have been allowed to stage their own exhibitions of atrocity photographs in Britain without hindrance.

Living Marxism takes no side in the Yugoslav conflict. But we have sought to expose the distorted way in which this war has been presented to people in the West. In particular, we have opposed the dishonest campaign to demonise and scapegoat the Serbs…

Original captions by Living Marxism preserved:

As Croatian forces withdrew from Vukovar on 15 and 16 November 1991, they dragged Serbian civilians from the cellars where they were hiding, and massacred them. These Serbs were axed to death in a courtyard, after being dragged from the cellar at 74 Nikola Demonja Street in Borovo-naselje, near Vukovar [Names, courtesy of the 4international blog: Radosav Pavic and Velimir Trajkovic (both wearing red); Zorica Pavlovic, her brother Zoran, mother Nada and Milojka Pavlovic.]

This three-year old Serbian boy was shot dead while hiding in the cellar at 72 Nikola Demonja Street. His mother and father, Sladana and Miroslav Cecavac, were also killed [From 4international: “This 3 year old Serbian child was labelled a ‘Serbian aggressor’ by [wartime Croatian president] Tudjman’s…government and the Western corporate-controlled media. In order to stop his so-called ‘aggression’, the so-called ‘brave’ Croatian neo-Ustashe soldiers put a bullet in the back of his head, which exited from the front of his skull. In the war in Croatia and Bosnia, by mid-1994, 7,000 Serbian children were killed: twice as many as Croatian and Muslim children combined…(From: The Suppressed Serbian Voice And The Free Press In America By William Dorich, 1994 - p 30)]

Between 16 and 18 October 1991, 24 Serbian civilians from Gospic in Croatia were slaughtered. Croatian forces killed the 15 men and nine women with guns, knives and sledgehammers, doused the bodies with petrol and set them on fire. From October 1991 to February 1992, more than 500 Serbian civilians from the Gospic area disappeared without a trace

Mira Kalanj, a Serbian civilian from Gospic in Croatia, was killed and burned by Croatian forces between 16 and 18 October 1991. Her husband, Duro, was machine-gunned in the back and then burned (Inset caption: A family photograph of Mira and Duro Kalanj with the eldest of their two sons)

A Serbian girl, suffocated to death in PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) and stuffed in a mechanic’s pit, Borovo-naselje, November 1991

A closer look at how the people in the first photo above were killed (below photos provided by a friend of the photographer who took them):

In supplement to these photos is some context for the Serb-killing orgy in Croatia that started in 1991 (exactly 50 years after Hitler founded the Independent State of Croatia in 1941), and continued into 1995. It comes via a recently started blog in Australia, named 4international.com, which has additional photos and information from those years.

To wrap up where we began, author William Dorich in his book The Suppressed Serbian Voice And The Free Press In America also mentions Croatians stealing Serb organs:

In battles between Croatian HVO forces [the joint Bosnian Croatian-Muslim army] and the Serbian Chetniks in the Krajina region on September 1, 1991, both sides took 3 prisoners each from their opponents. On September 3, 1991, in a trade of prisoners, the Serbians returned three captured Croatian HVO troops in exchange for three Serbian Chetnik troops. Little did the Serbians know that the three live Croatians were being traded for three dead Serbs. One of the bodies was brutally beaten, stabbed dozens of times, the toes cut off, the left leg broken. Evidence obtained in autopsy indicated that vital organs were missing, corroborating the Serbian claim that vital organs of victims were being sold on the black market in Germany. Video footage of one of the three victims was shown on German and Zagreb television during the first week of September, 1991, as “conclusive evidence” of the brutal torture and death of Croatian victims at the hands of the Serbs. The English translation of this video footage is believed to be narrated by the American actor, Martin Sheen, and copies of the video were sent to representatives in the American Congress and Senate. Dusan Markovich however, was not a Croatian victim. He was a thirty-two year old Serb, father of one child, with a pregnant wife…

Note: In cases such as those cited by William Dorich above, wherein Serbs have been simply found without organs, please note that when it comes to Croatians leaving Serbs organless, it’s not necessarily done for sale on the black market, since Serb-organ removal is a national Croatian pastime, no profit needed. Witness the hollowed-out bodies after the three-minute mark of this montage, and the Serbian soldier in 1995 Krajina below:

If you’re wondering why the above crimes against Serbs in Vukovar were never officially investigated, keep in mind that even Del Ponte’s allegations were dismissed out of hand by the Hague and UN. Given the history and persistence of anti-Serb bias that permeates media, governments, NGOs, militaries and the entertainment industry, any Balkan observer can almost guarantee that the claims made by Del Ponte and those of the witnesses above aren’t just credible, they’re the tip of the iceberg.

A fun Earth Day item I missed:

Immigration Is Bad for the Environment, Group Says

(CNSNews.com) - “As Americans commemorate Earth Day on April 22, the country’s ecology and resource base continue to be imperiled by mass immigration,” says a group that wants the “rule of law” enforced at the nation’s borders.

…[T]he Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)…notes that since the first Earth Day in 1970, the U.S. population has grown by more than 100 million people — “driven by ever increasing levels of immigration.”…On Earth Day 2008, the organization is renewing its call for a rollback of “excessive” immigration to the United States…Unless the government does something about the ever-increasing levels of immigration, Americans will face a future that holds worsening environmental conditions, dwindling resources, and greater dependence on foreign energy sources, [FAIR President Dan] Stein said.

“This was not the sort of future envisioned by people like the late Senator Gaylord Nelson who initiated the Earth Day celebration,” he added. “As we observe Earth Day, we call upon our nation’s leaders to get off the immigration and population growth spiral that can only lead to further environmental degradation.”

Ah diversity. Environment vs. Immigrants — and here we’ve got Native American tribes cleaning up after the immigrants: “Diverse Trash Found All Over”

But it’s like I’ve been saying: Some people want to hold the U.S. legally liable for rising sea levels in other countries (see Kyoto) because of our disproportionate carbon dioxide emissions. But the people from those countries are the ones moving here to do their emitting. And can we be legally liable if half of them come here illegally? Maybe if we didn’t have such open borders, and maybe if more countries were more industrialized, people wouldn’t be risking their lives to do their driving and farting over here.

I’m also going to use this occasion to question why everyone is so sure that Democrats are better for the environment than Republicans. After all, it’s liberals who are polluting our water supply with all their anti-depressant medication that ends up in the system. That’s not Republican Prozac in the water (Republicans are able to function in reality — that’s why they don’t need to create an alternate universe for themselves like Hollywood or academia). This just proves that liberalism is a mental illness. The proof is in the water.

You know what else ends up in the water? All the liberated bitches’ contraceptives. Which are giving the fish sex changes. So it’s not enough that they’re confusing our kids in the public schools over whom to be attracted to first — boys or girls — they have to confuse the fishes too. Which reminds me to link this:

Children’s hospital launches sex change for kids program

A doctor at the renowned Children’s Hospital Boston has launched a new program to drug children to delay puberty so they can decide whether they want a male or a female body, according to a report today in the Boston Globe.

Pediatric endocrinologist Norman Spack, 64, says he started the Gender Management Service Clinic because he found himself encountering 20-somethings who were “transgendered” and in good shape socially, “but they were having trouble getting their physique to conform to their identity.

“I knew the 20-somethings could have better chances of passing if they were treated earlier,” he said.
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“Is this our future?” asked [the pro-family organization] Mass Resistance in a commentary. “Dr. Norman Spack runs a clinic for young children who’ve ‘decided’ they are transgendered. Among other things, the clinic administers powerful hormones to delay (or even stop) puberty in order that the children more easily undergo operations that mutilate their bodies to ‘change’ them to the opposite sex.”
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In a question-and-answer session with Globe columnist Pagan Kennedy, she starts the apologetic for doing surgery on children by saying, “Little boys sob unless they’re allowed to wear dresses. The girls want to be called Luke, Ted, or James.”
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Spack tells the interviewer he’s seen “preadolescents” who have been dressing in underwear of the opposite sex “for years.”

“The puberty-blocking drugs work best at the beginning of the pubital process, typically age 10 to 12 for a girl and 12 to 14 for a boy,” he said…He said such treatments not only change the physical characteristics of the growing children, but also could leave them sterile for life.

“You have to explain to the patients that if they go ahead, they may not be able to have children. … But if you don’t start treatment, they will always have trouble fitting in,” he said.

“This isn’t conjecture,” Mass Resistance’ commentary said. “It’s happening now. And ‘transgenderism’ is being promoted to kids by homosexual/transgender activists in the public schools.”

Children as young as 12 already have been given the treatment.

Meanwhile, LifeSiteNews has reported that Spack previously acknowledged that only about 20 percent of children who claim to have a confusion over their gender hold those feelings in adulthood.

Below is an AP Worldstream story that didn’t make it to the AP’s “A” stories that become available in the U.S. and AP Online. Let’s see if we can figure out why. Oh look — it must be because it concerns Bosnian-Muslim war criminals:

Police detain three former Bosnian Army soldiers suspected of war crimes (April 8th):

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Officials say police have detained three former Bosnian Army soldiers suspected of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 conflict.

The prosecutor’s office of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina says that Adil Ruznic, 41, Mehur Selimovic, 46, and Emir Mustafic, 47, were detained Tuesday in the western Bosnian town of Bihac on suspicion of having committed crimes against civilians and war prisoners in 1994 and 1995.

The Bosnian Army tried for more than three years to break the Serb siege of Bosniak-dominated Bihac before finally succeeding in 1995. Serbs have claimed the Bosnian Army committed crimes against the Serb population in surrounding villages during those attempts.

First, let’s note the use of the word “claim” — always employed when the subject is crimes against Serbs. Whereas the Srebrenica “genocide/massacre” is a fact beyond debate, such that if you question the circumstances of those deaths and the actual tally in this “worst atrocity since WWII,” you’ve joined the ranks of Holocaust deniers. But what happened to the Serbs in and around Srebrenica which precipitated the Srebrenica operation, can only ever be a Serbian claim. Especially since international investigators weren’t tasked with documenting dead Serbs. That’s why if a dead Serb is lying in front of you, it’s actually only a Serbian “claim.”

But getting to the point. Many a foreign “eyewitness” to the Bosnian war will tell you, as some have told me: “I saw the Siege of Sarajevo with my own eyes. There’s no defending the Serbs on that count.”

Andy Wilcoxson explains in his forthcoming book about the Milosevic trial that Fikret Abdic, a truly moderate Muslim Bosnian leader and therefore not the one to win American support, sided with the Serbs in the war against the creation of a secessionist Islamic Bosnia, and it was his forces that held northwestern Bosnia, with assistance from the Serb side. Canadian former ambassador to Yugoslavia James Bissett also gives us a glimpse into the infamous “Siege of Sarajevo”:

During the siege of Sarajevo it was not only the Muslim population that suffered. The Serbs who remained in Sarajevo and who were prevented from leaving not only were on the receiving end of the shelling and sniping but were also victims of retaliation by a hostile Muslim population. [Alija] Izetbegovic, the Muslim leader, decreed a policy of “self-organization” and this meant that local Muslim strongmen took command of certain neighborhoods and raised their own private armies. Many of them were former criminals and they adopted aliases such as: Juka, Caco, Celo, Puska etc. These local warlords broke into Serb homes, forced Serbs to leave their apartments, they looted and robbed and set up their own prisons for uncooperative Serbs, where many were killed and others simply “disappeared.” Serbian shops and businesses were prime targets and Serbs were forced to dig trenches in areas of extreme danger. Sarajevo became one large prison for the Serbian population. Later when the Muslims and Croats fell out and began to fight each other, the Croats in Sarajevo suffered the same fate as the Serbs. Of course the international media reported none of this and [so] only Muslims were victims. It is also commonly known that the Muslims frequently fired on their own people to show visiting media representatives how the dreadful Serbs in the hills above shot innocent civilians.

On that point, I’m looking at a February 8, 1994 letter from Bosnian-Serb President Radovan Karadzic to then Secretary-General of the UN Boutros Boutros Ghali:

Your Excellency,

You are of course aware of the tragic event that took place in the Sarajevo market place on Saturday. Ever since, there has been a torrent of world-wide accusations against the Serbs. The campaign has been unprecedented in its ferocity, the level of emotion involved, but most important in its blindness both to the wider circumstances of the incident in Sarajevo and to circumstances of [the] incident itself.

As you know, the UNPROFOR [UN Protection Force] report concluded that “the round could have been fired from either B&H [Bosnia-Herzegovina] or BSA [Bosnian-Serb Army] positions.” Our own indications, from sources in Muslim-held Sarajevo, are that a shell reinforced with plastic explosive was hurled at the market place from a neighbouring building. In any event, although the culprit has not been identified, the world media and many politicians have declared the Serbs the perpetrators of the atrocity.

We have been here before. A sense of deja vu is overwhelming for those who are familiar with Muslim tactics in Sarajevo. In the effort to generate world sympathy for its aims, the Muslim leadership is not above sacrificing innocent civilians to attain those aims. [Indeed, please note that this is what the sacrifice at Srebrenica was all about — coming up with the 5,000 bodies that Clinton said Izetbegovic would need to get an intervention.] The fundamental truth is that the Muslims are not interested in a peace settlement based on compromise. They want the whole of Sarajevo and the whole of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Nothing else will do for them. Hence, Your Excellency, there has been no significant progress in the peace talks. [See Kosovo.]

The day before yesterday we met the co-chairman of the ICFY [International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia] and agreed with them to start exploring the possibility of pacifying Sarajevo District in advance of an overall peace settlement. But we absolutely insist that the matter of the market place massacre be cleared up first. We demand a thorough and impartial investigation, to be carried out by UNPROFOR, with experts from the Serbian and Muslim sides taking part. Particular attention should be paid to ballistics and to pathological findings with regard to the victims. At stake here is the fate of a whole people as well as the fate of an entire region of Europe. I urge Your Excellency to exert your influence in order to allow the truth to emerge.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr Radovan Karadzic
President, Republic of Serbia

On June 6, 1996, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) carried the following item:

“UN Admits Muslims Responsible for February 1994 Sarajevo Massacre”

New York - For the first time, a senior U.N. official has admitted the existence of a secret U.N. report that blames the Bosnian Muslims for the February 1994 massacre of Muslims at a Sarajevo market.

Yasushi Akashi, the Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and the former head of the U.N. mission in Bosnia, told the German Press Agency dpa that the secret report is “no secret.”

An international outcry over the massacre, in which 68 civilians perished at Markale marketplace, led directly to a toughening of Western policy towards the Serbs, who were widely blamed for the incident.

But there have been persistent rumors at the United Nations ever since that a U.N. report clearly blamed the Muslims for firing on their own people in order to create international sympathy and get the West to fight on their side against the Serbs.

Until Thursday, U.N. officials strongly denied the report existed, even after it was quoted in press reports. Akashi told dpa that not only did the first report exist, but that some journalists already had a copy. He said the details were in a 1995 story by U.S. journalist David Binder, who quoted from the confidential report.

According to Binder, the report said U.N. peacekeepers were prevented by Muslim police from entering the site in the aftermath of the explosion. No doctors were allowed on the scene and the 197 victims were carried away to a hospital within 25 minutes.

After studying the crater left by the mortar shell and the distribution of the shrapnel, the report concluded that the shell was fired from behind Muslim lines. U.N. monitors reported no Serbian shelling that day from points near the marketplace.

The official U.N. report that was subsequently released said the evidence as to who fired the shell was inconclusive, since it originated from an area where Muslim and Serb lines were very close. The two reports represented divergent views, but the United Nations chose to publish the neutral report and keep the other secret.

The incident led to a NATO ultimatum to Bosnian Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo.

At the time, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said: “It’s very hard to believe any country would do this to their own people, and therefore, although we do not exactly know what the facts are, it would seem to us that the Serbs are the ones that probably have a great deal of responsibility.”

Indeed, it is precisely this prototype — perpetually in disbelief of reality — that seems to gravitate toward professions in policymaking, all such clones eventually finding their way to the State Department and its equivalent abroad. The “expert” who debated author John Schindler on Voice of America several months ago used exactly the same language as Albright (a paraphrase): I refuse to believe that Muslims would kill their own.

And this is after decades of examples of what Palestinian Muslims do to their own, including the youngest children. Since then, of course, the Iraq war has provided us with plenty more examples of this self-killing tactic.

Just to get an added window into the Siege of Sarajevo, purportedly at the singular hands of those dastardly Serbs, there is my recent post about the experiences of Jews living in a Muslim-ruled Sarajevo (see last portion of this blog). Add to this the contents of a Jan. 28, 1994 communique from the Bosnian-Serb embassy in London:

Five doctors — three Serbs, a Jew and a Croat — were arrested by the Muslim authorities in Sarajevo, allegedly while trying to escape from the city. Several nurses were also arrested, on the same charge. [The doctors] had all worked in various Sarajevo hospitals throughout the present conflict, and saved many lives…The arrested doctors are being physically and [psychologically] mistreated. The representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited the arrested doctors and communicated with their families. The Serb Republic was not given any information pertaining to the location where the doctors and nurses are being held. Muslim sources report that the father of one of the arrested doctors committed suicide. The Serb Republic informs that he was killed after he visited his son in the prison.

The Serb Republic regards this case as added proof that life for non-Muslims under Izetbegovic’s Islamic regime is utterly unbearable. The fundamental question is why should people be stopped if they wish to leave? The Serb side regards free movement of civilians as a basic right and regrets that the Muslims in former Bosnia-Herzegovina treat non-Muslim under their control as hostages and prisoners…The Government of the Serb Republic does not accept that the arrested doctors and nurses be treated as POWs. They were targeted because of their ethnicity and religion. The fact that they include persons of Serb, Croat and Jewish background at least indicates that the Muslim regime in Sarajevo is indiscriminate in its persecution of non-Muslims.

In the current attempt by international mediators to effect confidence it is indeed imperative that the arrested medical personnel be set free and allowed to leave the Muslim sector of Sarajevo with their families. We also demand that all people, regardless of nationality, religion or profession, be allowed to leave areas under Muslim control if they so wish.

Finally, a rather graphic interview depicting life for Serbs in Sarajevo during the siege can be read here. (It appeared in the Serbian paper Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the interview subject is Milivoje Ivanisevic, Director of the Centre for the Investigation of Crimes Committed Against the Serbian People.

Below are two Serbs who lived in Sarajevo during the “Serbian” siege, from the Real Srebrenica Genocide website:

“The body of a Bosnian Serb from Sarajevo, who was killed, mutilated, and burned. His body was thrown in the Miljacka river by Bosnian Muslim forces.”

“Sarajevo: The body of Bosnian Serb Nenad Beribaka. The Bosnian Muslim forces mutilated his body after killing him by extracting his brain.”

But then, Serb suffering is officially irrelevant:

[Dragomir] Milosevic Defence Portray Serb Suffering
But judges repeatedly question testimony’s relevance to the case.
June 16, 2007

The defence in the trial of Bosnian Serb Dragomir Milosevic this week attempted to paint a picture of the suffering that both sides went through during the conflict in and around Sarajevo.

Witnesses gave detailed, emotional testimony, but the judges on several occasions intervened to ask about the testimony’s relevance to the case.

Milosevic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Sarajevo Romanija Corps, SRK, is charged with seven counts of crimes against humanity and violations of laws and customs of war for artillery and sniper attacks which are said to have terrorised the inhabitants of Sarajevo from August 1994 until November 1995.
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Drazen Maunaga, a witness for the defence, testified about how the Serb population in the vicinity of Sarajevo lived in fear of Bosnian army guns - something the defence counsel called “a sure sign of sowing fear among one’s people”.

He said Serbs he encountered during his employment as head of the office for cooperation with UNPROFOR in the Ilidza municipality would ask him “since I had contact with foreigners, whether it was possible for me to get a visa for them so they could leave the area”.

Maunaga said that he had himself been seriously wounded by a Bosnian shell.

“I was injured in the stomach. Basically, I had my intestines in my hand,” he told the court.

The judges, who at one point enquired about the witness’s current health, nonetheless said that it was not enough for the defence to argue that the Serbs were also suffering.

The defence, however, continued their theme on Wednesday with the testimony of Zoran Samardzic. He was originally under protection - known as “T-47″ - but the chamber granted his request for protective measures to be lifted.

Samardzic testified about how he went to visit a friend who had been hit by a shell while he was out in the streets, and returned to find that his son and his friend had been killed in a bombardment.

“When I returned to my apartment I found my child dead!” said Samardzic. “My only child, Sasha - 13 years old, he was, and his friend…he was 11 years old. I found them in pieces!”

After giving the witness a few minutes to compose himself, the judges again asked how his testimony was relevant to the charges in the indictment, and encouraged the defence to move on.

It was the third time that judges enquired about the relevance of defence testimony that day.

Could Wright be too white?

I think I figured out Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I think he may be a case study of the phenomenon I recently wrote about regarding light-skinned blacks over-identifying with their blackness. Just look at him. He’s lighter than Obama, and Obama is half white:

Here’s a reminder of what one reader explained based on his familiarity with the phenomenon:

For those familiar with the Afro-American community in this country, black prejudice toward mixed race people is bitter, vitriolic, and in some cases homicidal…Blacks of lighter skin color, or who bear European features, are branded “chocolates,” and verbally and socially abused. Their racial and ideological purity is questioned…I know the children of mixed race parents are subjected to school ground hazing. I know that some mixed race kids, especially those who are very light complexioned, over-identify with their “blackness.” I recognize their anger as that which comes from a wounded spirit. It’s as if they have to prove how “black” they are by repeating all the appropriate racial political mantras showing the proper amounts of disdain and anger and culture consciousness. I recognize in their judgemental behavior the desperate need for acceptance…

So here’s what likely happened:

As a kid, Jeremiah was ragged on and resented by fellow blacks, because of his “lightness”, accusing him of not really being a “brother” and resenting him for being able to sometimes even pass for white and most likely getting better treatment, or at least no scared looks, from white people. And, as difficult as race relations were when Jeremiah was growing up, he may have even had white girls checking him out — not unlikely in the racially mixed area of Philadelphia where he grew up, especially since his high school was 90% white. This would have really been too much for his fellow blacks he was trying to fit in with.

Poor Jeremiah didn’t fit in with the brothers, or with Whitey. So what could he do? Light bulb: out-black and out-anti-white EVERYONE by peddling the darkest kind of dark and becoming the uber-black leader of the blacker blacks. I would bet money that this is what formed the “reverend” Jeremiah Wright.

Jeremiah Wright, sufferer of the Barely Black syndrome

RJC Statement on Recent Gallup Poll Data

Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Executive Director Matt Brooks issued the followed statement today:

“The just released Gallup poll of Jewish voters is another important indicator of the ongoing troubles Barack Obama has with Jewish voters. In the poll of Jewish voters (conducted April 1-30), it showed Obama getting only 61% of the Jewish vote against John McCain (32%). By comparison, in 2004, John Kerry received 75% of the Jewish vote and George W. Bush received 25%…This data comes on the heels of the exit poll data from the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania. Hillary Clinton beat Obama among Jewish voters 62% - 38%,” said Brooks. “These results show that the American Jewish community is troubled by what they know of Barack Obama, his views and his positions.”

Poll results from CNN-Time Election Exit Polls 1996 and CNN Election Poll results 2004.

As rapper 50 Cent and others have said, they worry that if a black man becomes president, “he’ll probably be killed.” Considering that most black victims are targets of black-on-black crime, and considering that Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright is pretty pissed at him right now, I think that between Wright and the first black president Bill Clinton, Obama should know whom to watch out for. In fact, check out Wright’s phrasing in the following sentence just last week:

Wright said he’s told Obama that if he is elected in November and is inaugurated in January, “I’m coming after you.”