No matter how much modern political analysis has tried to exclude the spiritual factor from consideration, it nevertheless exists, for all those who have the eyes to see.
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Why did this latest massive outpouring of Muslim rage specifically target Denmark? The simple answer is because that's where the now famous – or infamous, depending on one's point of view – cartoon depicting Muhammad as a terrorist originated. A somewhat less simple answer is that Iran needed a spark with which to unite Muslim masses in anti-Western rage at a time of increasing pressure being brought upon it regarding its nuclear program.
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It could have been any country in the West where critical, less-than-flattering visual depictions of Muslims and/or their faith can be found on a fairly regular basis, in any of the thousands of media outlets, especially those considering themselves independent and farther right on the political spectrum. But Denmark was the target in the right place at the right time. Why? Mere chance? Perhaps.
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Or perhaps it's something else, a sort of spiritual blowback for which Denmark was setting itself up.
It is a little known fact outside of the Balkans that a Danish political and diplomatic figure is at the forefront of a vast, little publicized but consistent effort to erect a new terrorist-run state on European soil.
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Soren Jessen-Petersen heads the U.N. mission in Serbia's Kosovo province, which has been controlled by NATO troops and U.N.-appointed bureaucracy since June 1999, following an agreement reached on the heels of NATO's 78-day bombing campaign of ex-Yugoslavia (renamed Serbia and Montenegro after the fall of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000).
Under U.N.'s Resolution 1244, Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia, and the task of the U.N. mission, or UNMIK, is to oversee a transition period during which a status suitable to both the Serbs and the Albanians, who make up a majority in Kosovo, can be worked out.
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Unfortunately, UNMIK has taken upon itself a "nation-building" role, transferring power to local institutions dominated by Albanians, while, at the same time, allowing the expulsion of at least 250,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians from the province during the previous six years. In other words, UNMIK is overseeing a vast ethnic cleansing effort of a mostly Christian population in order to make Kosovo safe for an ethnically pure, majority-Muslim Kosovo, most of whose leadership once fought under the flag of the Kosovo Liberation Army, an Islamic terrorist organization with past and present ties to al-Qaida and similar organizations elsewhere.
And, in the six years of UNMIK's Kosovo mandate, perhaps no head of mission has contributed more to Kosovo independence and institutionalized anti-Christian persecution than Danish diplomat Petersen.
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Attacks on Christian Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo have become a routine, almost daily occurrence, which regularly goes unpunished. Over 150 churches and monasteries have been torched or destroyed, and dozens of cemeteries desecrated or leveled. Serb private and industrial property is being sold off under an illegal "privatization" process imposed and supervised by UNMIK.
Petersen has formed what he himself has termed a "warm" relationship with some of Kosovo Albanians' most hardline figures, including Ramush Haradinaj, accused of heinous war crimes against the Serbs – and Albanians! – population in Kosovo, whom he personally saw off to the airport before he went off to The Hague on war-crime charges, kissing him, embracing him and warmly shaking Haradinaj's hand in front of TV cameras and tens of thousands of his supporters. For him, one of Europe's most dangerous terrorists was a "close partner and friend."
However, by far the cruelest part of Petersen's reign has been the policy of deliberate cut-offs of electrical power to Serb enclaves for the past two winters. At temperatures that often reach 20 below zero Celsius, Serb households, schools, hospitals and businesses have been left without their main source of heating and water, sometimes for spells lasting 60 days or more.
Petersen's UNMIK is blackmailing Kosovo's non-Albanian population into signing billing contracts with the newly established, Albanian-run Kosovo Electrical Corporation. The Serbs are refusing to allow themselves to become dependent for their electricity on the same Albanian extremists attempting to drive them out of Kosovo, and are holding out to get their electricity directly from Serbia. Petersen's UNMIK is refusing this option.
As a result, old people and children are freezing, schools are closed, and hospitals are using generators which often break down. Petersen's answer is akin to a modern-day Marie Antoinette: "Let them freeze."
Petersen may go down as the most anti-Christian administrator in European history since the days of Herod. Worse still, his open support for ex-terrorists has the effect of saddling the Kosovo Albanian population itself – most of whom used to live in relative peace with other non-Albanians there – with the most hard-core, radical element among them. If Kosovo does gain full independence, becoming a safe haven for terrorist activity, drug and prostitution-running on European soil, much of the credit will go to him.
Most Danes probably aren't familiar with what their compatriot is up to in Kosovo. Perhaps the fact that one of theirs has attained such a high international position could even be a source of national pride. As they watch their embassies and flags burn throughout the Islamic world, they probably don't realize that one of theirs is doing everything to ensure that such scenes take place on a permanent basis much closer to home, on European soil. First in Kosovo, then further and further north. And West. It's called spiritual blowback.
Wake up Denmark! What is happening to you is regrettable and alarming. But it is not without cause. And at least part of the cause is, as it ultimately is with everything else, within you.