tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post6480663631466665737..comments2023-10-28T05:02:10.442-04:00Comments on Americans For Bosnia: "Balkan Idols" by Vjekoslav Perica [26]Kirk Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879908614214050994noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-15691802235921886782007-12-04T00:45:00.000-05:002007-12-04T00:45:00.000-05:00Correction: Can't people of Serbia and Bosnia (not...Correction: Can't people of Serbia and Bosnia (not Croatia as I stated in my last comment) look into the future?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-153382657289403112007-12-04T00:44:00.000-05:002007-12-04T00:44:00.000-05:00Quote: "The most crucial single characteristic of ...Quote: "The most crucial single characteristic of the religion under consideration is worship of history."<BR/><BR/>I can't quite put my finger on why are people so much "into the history" over there? Can't people of Serbia and Croatia look into the future?<BR/><BR/>Quote: "In other words, ethnic nationalists say that nothing has changed since the Middle Ages in order to change everything today."<BR/><BR/>I couldn't have concluded this better myself. The sad part is that nationalists do not understand the difference between stone age and modern age.<BR/><BR/>Quote: "The ruins of the former Yugoslavia are full of tombs and monuments of all sorts and all ages... What the Jerusalem Myth really narrates is a story about a land of ceaseless resentment inhabited by eternal losers."<BR/><BR/>Can anybody refute what Perica just concluded? Impossible. Have you ever heard about "The Jerusalem Syndrome." Similar paralel can be drawn with the Balkans (sadly). There is a way too much history in the Balkans, and I am quite convinced that people are sick of it and they don't even realize it. If peace is ever to last, first governments need to invest some money to decontaminate people from their own misery, past, history, nationalism...<BR/><BR/>Quote: "...the Vatican, which throughout much of the 20th Century clearly supported many far-right and fascist regimes."<BR/><BR/>Serbian Orthodox Christian priests also supported Serbian Chetniks who were slaughtering Jews and Muslims of "Yugoslavia." In fact, the first experiments in mass executions of camp inmates by poison gas were carried out in Serbia. Serbia was the first country to proudly declare itself "Judenfrei" ("cleansed" of Jews). In August 1942, Dr. Harald Turner (the chief of the German civil administration in Serbia) announced that Serbia was the only country in which the "Jewish question" was solved and that Belgrade was the "first city of a New Europe to be Judenfrei." Turner himself attributed this success to Serbian help. The fight against the Jewish influence had actually started six months before the German invasion when the government of Serbia issued legislation restricting Jewish participation in the economy and university enrolment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com