Albanian separatists want to create a “Kosovo Orthodox Church”
From attacks on SOC churches, the separatist regime in Pristina will move on to attempts to appropriate the Serbian spiritual heritage in Kosovo under the guise of a schismatic “local church.”
This was reported by the Serbian editorial office of Sputnik, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It is possible that Pristina will try to create something like the Montenegrin Orthodox Church on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija,” Serbian Prime Minister Anna Brnabic commented on the letter from Kosovo “Prime Minister” Albin Kurti to 50 prime ministers of UNESCO member countries.
In this letter, the separatist leader complained that the organization for the preservation of cultural and architectural heritage Europa Nostra included The 14th century Serbian monastery of Visoki Decani in Kosovo was added to the list of European monuments in danger of extinction and demanded that “colleagues” put pressure on the organization to remove the monastery from this list.
“It is possible that the Pristina administration is trying to roll out a trial balloon to see what the reaction will be not only from Serbia, but also from the international community,” historian Stefan Radojkovic comments on Kurti’s actions. “We saw similar attempts during the reign of Milo Djukanovic’s Democratic Party of Socialists in Montenegro.”
The expert noted that the whole construction of the identity of Albanians in Kosovo is quite absurd, because they cannot decide whether they have their own history, or whether it should be carried out without separation from the history of Albania, as an internationally recognized state.
“They have such a schizophrenic division, because if they create a special Kosovo nation, they will need a “Kosovo Orthodox Church” following the example of the “Montenegrin Orthodox Church” Mirasha Dedeich. Or they will try to somehow identify themselves with the recognized state of Albania and the autocephalous Albanian Orthodox Church. Which will create a serious problem, since the Albanian Orthodox Church simply will not agree with this (the appropriation of Serbian shrines in Kosovo - ed.).”
Radojkovic noted that in Kosovo, the registration of religious communities by the “state” comes down to only the creation of a new legal entity.
“It would not surprise me if they tried the Miraš Dedejic model, in which they would invent some Orthodox priest, a person who would declare himself an Orthodox priest of the future Kosovo church,” the historian concluded.
According to the 2011 census, more than 6% of the population of Albania, mainly in the south of the country, are members of the Albanian Orthodox Church, more than 56% of the inhabitants of Albania and more than 97% in Kosovo profess Islam. There is no Orthodox Albanian community in Kosovo.
In the title photo: A nun against the background of a Serbian Orthodox church destroyed by Albanians in Kosovo.
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