Comments on: Serb “Rage Boy”?

By: sackcloth and ashes

sackcloth and ashes — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:41:38 +0000

‘What makes you think Serbian rage boy is a Christian?’

Particularly seeing as fellow Christians have usually been the targets of ultra-Serb nationalism in the past – not just Catholic Croats, but Orthodox Macedonians and Bulgarians.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:57:10 +0000

hmm. Perhaps its this chappy

By: dirigible

dirigible — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:10:59 +0000

Islamic Rage Boy is uglier. Just look at those teeth.

Dude, British blog.

By: No Good Boyo

No Good Boyo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:50:50 +0000

Tim makes a good point. Any reasonable society would stick Sloboradj in a boot camp, get him to lose five stone and acquire a tan, fix his teeth, kit him in the standard Adriatic cool outfit of leather jacket, jeans, bangs and stubble, stick 100 quid in his pocket and send him to the local disco. He’d soon forget about politics.

As for Islam ul-Rajj, he should undergo the same treatment plus a shave and a good feed. And move to India.

By: simon

simon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:46:16 +0000

I know this is REALLY off-topic, but memo to Bogdan of Oz. As a Mancunian and an England/Britain pedant, can I just point out that the last serious trouble we had over here ….

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1054146_rangers_riot_report_released

…. involved football fans from that well-known ‘English’ city of, erm … Glasgow. Obviously they were making up for being oppressed.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:23:10 +0000

David All: A degree in Byzantine history would seem to be a base-line prerequisite for understanding that tortured part of the
world–or alternatively for the understanding of the machinations
of big-city urban City Hall politics.

By: David All

David All — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:37:14 +0000

Here are two interesting articles by Michael Totten about Kosovo:
The first is “An Abominable Blood-Logged Plain” at http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/07/an-abominable-b.php
The second is from the July issue of Standpoint Magazine entittled “How Kosovo Created its Own Liberal Islam” . Can access it at http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/157/full

By: Joshua Scholar

Joshua Scholar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:14:57 +0000

Tim: “Note the lack of rage girls in both these movements.”

Are you sure the Karadzic supporter is a boy? She could just be very butch.

By: Bogdan of Australia

Bogdan of Australia — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:56:22 +0000

They all look like English soccer fans to me… He, he, he…
“A true English soccer fan,
Is a quiet man, a cultured man.
He NEVER jeers you with a “BOO!!!”
He NEVER throws a THING at you.
It doens’t matter; win or loss,
He ALWAYS plays a friendly host
And when abroad with English team,
He ALWAYS keeps his rage within.
He drinks no Guinnis, he drinks no beer,
But only prays “God Save The Queen”.
The all are so quiet under stars
You’d think, they are a bunch of good, brave scouts.
And when at home, he only begs his mom,
To sing for him a song.
And put him straight to bed.
And gently stroke his head,
So he in silence swallow can
His bitter tears because of LEAQUE’s unlucky end.
Ther is NO ONE more noble than
A TRUE ENGLISH SOCCER FAN…”

By: David All

David All — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:47:52 +0000

Eastern Orthodox Churches are usually subservant to the authority of their country, even if that authority is officially athestic as the communists were. This goes back to the Byzantine Empire whose autocratic Emperoer was the Supreme Head of both Church and State. There is little in the tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy about standing up to the authority of the State as there is in Western Christianity. The tragic result is that to this day, the various national branches of the Eastern Orthodoxy, such as the Serbian Orthodox Church* can usually be counted on to repeat whatever nationalist propaganda that is circulated even when it is hate-filled cries of genocide.

*In regards to the Serbian Orthodox Church, I remember the horribly prophetic comment in the early 1980s of my university professor in Byzantine History about the Serbian Orthodox Priest whose Doctorate in History thesis was being reviewed by a committe, the professor was part of. He remarked that the committee had told the Priest “to curb his nationalism” concerning what he had written in his thesis. As it turned out there were good many other Serbs whose f–king nationalism would needed to be curbed the hard way by NATO.