The Bosnian Serb government, sued by the "Bosnian Islamic Community" has been ordered to pay multi millions to rebuild mosques:
"BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina-A court has ordered the Bosnian Serb government to pay €33 million ($41.8 million) compensation to the organization representing Bosnia's Muslims for the wartime destruction of Islamic shrines in Banja Luka." LINK
Not surprisingly, I could find NO evidence of Albania muslims being order to rebuild 112 Serbian Orthodox Christian Churches they systemically ransacked and decimated or the 10 defiled Orthodox cemeteries .
"...the number of Orthodox Churches destroyed or damaged since NATO and the UN occupied Kosovo to 112. This has been an unprecedented act of genocide. The planned and systematic destruction of the Christian history of Kosovo-Metohija under US/NATO/EU sponsorship. Churches that had survived for over 500 years under Ottoman Turkish rule were reduced to rubble under the protection of 30,000 NATO troops."
OR
"Not even the innocent dead are immune from Albanian "revenge". ...50-60 Orthodox tombstones were desecrated and vandalized. Bishop Artemius/Artemije reported that the Albanians had exhumed human remains and had scattered them around the graves in Siga and Brestovik Orthodox churchyards near Pec in Metohija. Bishop Artemius stated that over 10 cemeteries and over 100 Orthodox churches had been ransacked and destroyed. Human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI), and the Helsinki Human Rights Group have ignored these acts of genocide. KFOR and UNMIK have done nothing to prevent this vandalism. Bishop Artemije was incredulous how NATO/KFOR/UNMIK could not prevent the destruction of 110 Orthodox churches and 10 Orthodox cemeteries
"On December 2, 2002, 46 tombstones at the Orthodox cemetery in Kosovo Polje and Decani were destroyed following celebrations of Albanian Flag Day held on November 28 near the Visoki Decani Monastery'
For excellent article on this & link to above quotes/information - go to : The Systemic Destruction of Orthodox Christian Churches in Kosovo - Erasing the History of Christianity in Kosovo by Carl K. Savich
Guess this is all more evidence of (the myth of) "Islamophobia".
I don't think that Christians, of whatever branch, should ever take the side of muslims against other Christians; regardless of the circumstances. As for paying restoration money for damaged mosques - if it was me, i'd tell them where to go (i'm trying not to swear).
Posted by: john in cheshire | February 23, 2009 at 11:51 AM
You are correct John in Cheshire...there is not enough sticking together in this country between Christian denominations and various bloggers.
Posted by: Elizabeth | February 26, 2009 at 03:11 PM