{"id":1658,"date":"2006-02-16T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2006\/02\/how-goes-the-war.html"},"modified":"2006-02-16T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T05:50:00","slug":"how-goes-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2006\/02\/how-goes-the-war.html","title":{"rendered":"How Goes the War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kosovo.com\/images\/frnektarije01m.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kosovo.com\/images\/frnektarije01m.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Fr. Nektarios in front of the desecrated Orthodox Serb tomb in Zociste. Dozens of cemeteries have been destroyed after the NATO led intervention in Kosovo despite the international civil and military presence. In many cemeteries tombs were smashed by axes and opened. Often remains of the deceased were scattered around. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serfes.org\/missionary\/november-jan2006report.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Want to help?<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><em>HT Fr Victor Potapov <\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><em><br><\/em><\/span><br>\u201cThe victory of jihad in Kosovo would be a local triumph pointing the way to further victories to come, eventually to a worldwide victory. They would point and say: \u201cWhere is their God?\u201d As Christians, our hope of victory is not an earthly one. \u201cSome trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.\u201d I remind you that in our part of the world, we suffered centuries under shari\u2019a rule, and no man knows the numbers and names of all the martyrs from those times. We do not prefer to repeat that nightmare, but we are prepared for it if it comes. But my plea to you, as American citizens, is that your country would not help hasten that day for the Christian Orthodox people of Kosovo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclesmagazine.org\/cgi-bin\/newsviews.cgi\/The%20Balkans\/Kosovo\/2006\/02\/14\/A_Bishop_s_Lonely_S\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">More \u2026<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><em>HT Fr Miguel Grave DePeralta<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the demonstrators was a small child with a placard that said, \u201cWhoever insults the prophet kill him.\u201d Another marcher wore a suicide bomber costume.<\/p>\n<p>Other signs in London said: \u201cBehead those who insult Islam,\u201d \u201cEuropeans take a lesson from 9\/11\u201d and \u201cPrepare for the REAL Holocaust.\u201d The organizer of the Feb. 3 event told the BBC that he looked forward to the day when \u201cthe black flag of Islam will be flying over Downing Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what stunned British writer Geoffrey Wheatcroft was something else he saw while blitzing through news reports about the waves of fury inspired by those 12 Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only did the police make no arrests\u201d during the London demonstration, even though it \u201copenly incited murder; they actually sheltered the fanatics\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shns.com\/shns\/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&amp;pk=RELIGION-FAITH-02-15-06\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tmatt\u2019s latest<\/a><\/em><br><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile, Willie Nelson sings a fruity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2006\/02\/15\/D8FPJK2O8.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">country song<\/a>, homosexual bishop admits he\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2006\/02\/gay-bishop-admits-alcoholism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">alcoholic<\/a>, folks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/oly\/3663014.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">long for<\/a> the next American Idol, and iPod sales <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/section\/story.cfm?c_id=3&amp;ObjectID=10368558\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">soar<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>God help us.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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