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Citizens of Montenegro voted earlier this week to separate from Serbia and become an independent nation. Now there are indications that the Serb province of Kosovo will also separate in the near future. John Couretas of The Acton Institute says there are grounds for serious concern about granting Kosovo independence.
[A]nyone who cares about religious freedom, the rights of minorities, and the rule of law should be highly skeptical of an independent Kosovo. Since 1999, when a NATO bombing campaign drove out Serb military forces fighting an Albanian separatist movement, the Orthodox Christian minority in Kosovo has been under intense pressure from Albanian Muslim extremists.In a Feb. 18 letter to President George Bush, the Serbian Orthodox bishop Artemije of Kosovo and Metohija – the ranking church official in the region – said that granting the province independence would hand terrorists “a significant victory” in Europe.
“Detaching Kosovo from democratic Serbia would mean a virtual sentence of extinction for my people in the province – the larger part of my diocese – who continue to face unremitting violence from jihad terrorist and criminal elements that dominate the Albanian Muslim leadership,” the bishop said.
Numerous attacks on Christians, churches, and other sites have been perpetrated by Albanian Muslims in Kosovo despite the presence of UN peacekeeping forces. Kosovo has also become a haven of corruption and organized criminal activity.
UN peacekeepers have not provided adequate protection for Kosovan Christians by any stretch but, if Kosovo gains its independence, there will be nothing to stand between the Christian minority and the Albanian Muslim majority.
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[...] The Albanian majority in Kosovo has systematically destroyed some 150 Christian churches and monasteries as part of a campaign to eradicate Christianity in the region. The UN and NATO occupiers have made no effort to stop the destruction or bring the vandals to justice. Christian leaders have already voiced concerns that independence for Kosovo would endanger Christians remaining in the region. [...]
[...] Kosovar Muslims have conducted a campaign of persecution of Christians and vandalisation of historic Orthodox sites. Some believe that, as Muslims were once victims of ethnic cleansing, so now Muslims seek to drive Orthodox Serbs from Kosovo. [...]
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