Author: Fahri Xharra. Thursday, 07.01.2021, 09:33 AM. Translator: Petrit Latifi
A response to Aurel Plasari, Serbs appear historically after the Congress of Berlin in 1878. Those of the 11th century that you call Serbs were Orthodox Albanians. Mr. Plasari, do not create Serbophilia in our lands with your dirty books.
Serbs have never been Catholic, because they are too late to pass the phase of Catholicism.
The great Serbian nationalist but also very educated, Laza Kostić, in 1963 published in Toronto, Canada, the book “Katolicki Srbi” (Catholic Serbs), which cannot escape the truth when it says: “Only after the second half of the 19th century did Catholic Serbs and Muslim Serbs begin to “appear.” “Do Serbs as a nation have an origin? Miroslav Čosović explains it well in his text “Ko širi lažibajke… (Who is spreading false tales about the Serbian nation?)
How was the Serbian nation formed? “ Vuk Karadžić, Sima Sarajlija and Ilija Grašanin, but also Njegoš decided that from a group of Orthodox believers – Serbs, to create with their propaganda “a blood bond”, that is, a people of “one origin, one culture, one family tradition and customs”
Vuk Karadžić lived in Vienna, 1883, and the process of forming the Serbian nation began there. Sima Čirković said that Vuk Kardžić was a “spokesman of European ideas”; but he was also a linguist who formed the Serbian writing, culture and nation. (Unfortunately, Vuk Karadžić was of Albanian origin).
It was as it was for us, writes Miroslav Qosović in his book, but Vuk Karadžić and the idea of Dositej Obradović began to spread and spread in, so in the 19th century the Serbian people were “created” and in 1836 he came up with the text “Srbi svi i svuda” (Serbs all, and everywhere)
If we go a little deeper to elaborate the topic of Serbs as “Catholic” we should also mention the Republic of Dubrovnik; where the inhabitants of Dubrovnik until the 17th century kept themselves different from the others: “a special national group, the oldest in the Balkans and by no means Slavic”.
The correspondence of the Dubrovnik people from 1446 with the government of Barcelona which treated the Dubrovnik people as Italian is interesting. It says “We are surprised by your assessment that you call us Italian; we are neither Italy nor subject to Italy; we distinguish ourselves by our language and customs that belong to Dalmatia “(Vinko Foretic, Godina 1358. u povijesti Dubrovnika, JAZU, Starine, knjiga 50, Zagreb, 1960. god). A question for our researchers; Who were the Dubrovnik people of that century, what language did they speak? (. Znaci, 100%-tna je cinjenica, do polovine 19.vijeka)
Dubrovnik people did not consider themselves Serbs or Croatians, Dubrovnik people are largely (and then and now) of Vlach/Morlack origin, originating from Balkan old-timers )
Catholicism in these parts has expanded and, what is worse, has spread and taken root… There are few settlements in the new provinces where Catholicism has not captured a Serbian soul (!) and has not gained followers.” The Albanian Catholic priesthood and their believers are guilty, according to Father Bojović, for all Serbian failures” (“Vesnik Srpske Crkve”).
These are their statements, not mine, but I trust them very much in their intentions. Their intentions are still 100% unrealized. If their realization until the 1940s was carried out without restriction, without fear and with violence, it is still not finished. Today they are looking for other ways for the complete liquidation of the Catholic element from the Albanian lands.
In 1919, the Yugoslav government “signed” every international act against discrimination. It does the same today. But the persecution of Kosovar Catholics continued. In Skopje, the Albanian patriot, the father of Mother Teresa, was poisoned by the Serbs. The Serbs saw the danger in the Catholic Albanians, because for them, Muslims had other plans.
In 1929, Father Shtjefen was killed, a Franciscan highly respected by the Albanians. Although K. Jereqek described the Albanians as “an old people with civic culture; although civic organization was also important for the Illyrians; the Slavs necessarily Slavized, and the Turks Turkized the Albanians, sometimes separately and sometimes in cooperation. So?
Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes, 1843 writes: “The Serbs were the sworn enemies of the Catholic highlanders (…) the Serbs had an unbridled hatred of the Albanian Catholics.”
Meanwhile, a 19th century historian wrote that the Serbs hated the Catholic Albanians for two reasons, firstly that they were the first and last obstacle to their realization of their doctrinal-religious policies in support of Russia and the occasional support of Turkey, and secondly that they, especially their clergy, taught the past generations and kept its heritage in its originality. “
While another chronicler in 1841 says “In the high mountains of Gjakova and of Prizren live the Catholic Albanian highlanders and dominate those parts… while the Serbs are their sworn enemies, and that their hostility has often been bloody and destructive.
“Settlements of Albanians of the Christian faith in Serbian territory in the past were mainly in cities such as Prishtina, Vidin, Novi Pazar, Krushevac, Prokuplje, Nish and Çupri (Acta Bulgariae polissimum ecclesiastica (Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum Meridionalium, vol. XXIII, 339). In every writing of the past you can find the same hatred of Serbs towards the Albanian Catholic element.
All spiritual leaders and especially Catholic clergy were declared the greatest enemies of the Serbian people, not by chance. But Faik Konica in his magazine “Albania” wrote: that Albanian Catholics are the reason that our nationality was kept alive until today.
Finally, we are convinced that the Serbian Church designs, slanders and divides. Enough!
Reference
Balkan Academia 