"Kosovo is Serbia!"

It is outrageous how the so-called “civilized” world, the USA & Western Europe, have decreed that Serbia must give up its historic heart to the Albanian interlopers, who settled there under the protection of their Muslim brothers, the Ottoman Turks, and then proceeded to out-breed and eventually drive out the local Orthodox Christian Serb population, so that they can now claim Kosovo as their own.

The question one must ask is “why”? By what logic has western liberal opinion (and, ultimately, that is what enabled Kosovo “independence” to come about) come to the conclusion that the Kosovo Albanians, above all the “majority minority” populations in the world, must be given their independence while other ethnic groups must continue to live as locally-dominant minorities in nation states dominated by other ethnic groups. Why are they the special case? What about the Serbs in Bosnia (and Kosovo, itself); the Kurds in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria; the Basque and Catalans in Spain; minority tribes in just about any African country? And what about “growing” ethnic minorities in the US and Europe, especially the isolationist Muslim populations in every major city in Europe and (soon) in the US, who may already form local majorities? (No one really knows the exact numbers concentrated in the ghettos of Europe, and everyone is afraid to ask).

The conventional answer, within the parameters of the victimologist mind-set of liberals and neocons, is that the Kosovo Albanians must be protected from the irredeemably genocidal, ethnic-cleansing, Serbs. Only the Serbs! Not the Turk and Arab persecutors of the Kurds (of course, the Turks have actually committed genocide within the last 100 years and the Iraqi Arabs tried to wipe out the Kurds, ohhh…. only within the last 25 years); not the various nations in Africa (let’s see… Rwanda; Kenya; Sierra Leone; Congo)! As it is, the Serbs have turned out to be particularly inept at ethnic cleansing (unless, of course, they are assisted by the UN); the final results of all their irrational and savage acts have been the imprisonment of their leaders, the loss of Bosnia and Kosovo, and the expulsion of their ethnic compatriots from Kosovo by the poor, downtrodden, Albanians. Not only are the Serbs reviled now, but they are considered to be forever irredeemable and cannot ever be trusted to treat their Albanian minority justly, even when embraced in the warm, comforting, bosom of Europe. In desperation, in an attempt to to invoke a strategic rationale, even the liberal intelligentsia is now raising the specter of a re-Sovietized Russia as a looming, dangerous, bully, flexing its muscles in support of the Serbs. Can you imagine LIBERALS being worried about a Sovietized ANYTHING? Desperate times call for desperate measures, indeed!

What is the reason for this exceptionalism, really? One suspects that it is another sad attempt by the West to mollify Muslims the world over by uncritically accepting another instance of Muslim claims for exceptional consideration; in this case, that Muslim populations in large number - when they’ve achieved critical mass in any place – cannot be ruled by non-Muslims (are you listening, America and Europe?). Muslims assert the uniqueness, cohesiveness and “unity” of Islam; it is an all-encompassing world: religious; social; judicial; commercial AND governmental. And the West? We just surrender out of fear - dressed in the “respectable” garments of multiculturalism. We must accede or face the consequence: various levels of “social unrest”, including the dreaded Jihad. We can accede bit-by-bit (see that dolt, the Archbishop of Canterbury) or in total surrender (see, for example: Bosnia and Kosovo, or upcoming events like Chechnya, Palestine, EUROPE, AMERICA!)

If there is any sense of fairness (never mind about principle or honor) left in the West, we must at least insist that the Serb historic areas in northern Kosovo, where the largest number of ethnic Serbs still live in the province (those that have not been chased out by the Albanians) must remain a part of Serbia. Assertions about the territorial “inviolability” of Kosovo are a cynical joke; it is just another part of our total surrender to the fear of Muslim reaction. Supporting Serbia’s efforts to retain the most historically and emotionally important part of their country is the least we can do to ameliorate the shame of our cowardice in the face of that savage cult called Islam.