Posted by
Darko Trifunovic on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:25:36 PM
My letter to the US Embassy in Athens
by Theodoros Karakostas
Founder, Bysantine Cultural Project
The following letter
of protest is intended to express complete opposition to the administration's
announcement
that military assistance will be provided to the regime that presently occupies
the
Serbian
province of Kosovo. This is a policy that is morally and
politically repugnant, as the Al
Qaeda connected
KLA government is responsible for the violation of the human rights and
religious
freedom of
Serbs living in Kosovo.
I write as a
Greek Orthodox believer and American citizen that abhors the unrelenting
bullying of
Serbia.
While I fully understand that the staff is quite busy, I would be most
appreciative if someone
at the Embassy
could explain to me why Serb suffering in Kosovo for the past nine years has
been
entirely
unopposed by our government, NATO, United
Nations, and European Union while any time
any Serbs are
complicit in some sort of stupid behavior as in the attack on the Embassies
there seems
to be unanimous
condemnation of all Serbs collectively?
I would like to
know why there have been no arrests since the Orthodox Monks Father Chariton
Lukic
and Stefan Purim
were decapitated by the Muslims in 1999, and why the KLA leadership has not
been
held responsible for
the March 2004 pogroms in Kosovo that resulted in four days of terror against
innocent
Serb civilians? I
would like to know why the destruction of beautiful Serbian Churches and
Monasteries that
survived the Ottoman
centuries of occupation, the Nazis, and decades of Communism have not survived
under the occupation
of NATO,
the United
Nations, and the European
Union?
I would like to
express my grief at the horrendous suffering that Serbs are enduring in Kosovo.
As an
Orthodox
Christian, my suffering brothers of Kosovo are in my thoughts and
prayers during this lenten
season that is being
observed by Eastern Orthodox Churches. I am particularly distressed over the
destruction of all the
Churches, with the Sacred Chalices, Icons, Crucifixes, and Gospels.
As a Greek
Orthodox, the events in Kosovo bring to mind the status of the
Greek Churches of occupied
Cyprus which have been systematically destroyed under
the Turkish occupation. I would like to ask why
it is that Orthodox
Christians are exempt from the protection of international law, and why the
vile
desecration of
Orthodox houses of worship from Kosovo to Cyprus
are tolerated? The United States
has gone out of its
way to placate Muslim sensibilities, why are the religious sensibilities of
Orthodox
Christians treated
with such indifference?
Kosovo
is Serbia!
This is a historic fact, as is the reality that Serbia was a staunch
American ally in two
World Wars! The
Croats, Bosnian Muslims, and Muslims of Kosovo were collaborators of the Nazis
that
aided and abetted the Holocaust.
It is oxy moronic for the administration to support military aid to the
KLA regime while
claiming to be waging a "War on terror". The KLA has been hosting Al Qaeda,
a fact
that has been
documented by terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky, and by numerous
journalists and
Balkan experts.
Theodoros Karakostas