The Serbs Greek mentality deliberately confuses nationality with religion

By Isuf B.Bajrami

Greece continues to be a difficult partner, even to this day it is the “black sheep” in the European Union! From time to time, it raises fabricated problems for Europe, due to its capricious attitude towards its neighbors.

The British Financial Times quotes Takis Michas, a social affairs specialist at the Athens newspaper Eleftherotypia, as saying: “Greece represents a closed society in itself. The values of orthodoxy reinforce this mentality. Orthodoxy sees the West as a danger, as a place where plots are hatched against it”!

This mentality of Greeks and Serbs, which has its origins in the early schism between Western and Eastern Christianity.

This mentality also appears among the Greek clergy in the United States.

According to the American press, Archbishop Spiridon, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in the United States, has been accused of trying to stop church attendance for Orthodox who feel more American than Greek.

Spiridon, the first US-born leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, states that his activity aims to protect the Byzantine traditions of the church, thus proving that he is one of the Greeks who think they still live in the Byzantine Empire.

Lianecion newspaper’s Jeane Karthner writes: “A few years ago, the Greeks were hostile to Albanians, Macedonians and Bulgarians. “They are permanent enemies of the Turks, and now they have become enemies of the Americans, the British, the French, the Germans and the rest of the world.”

Greece also differs from other EU member states in terms of domestic legislation. For example, citizenship, nationality and religion are deliberately confused in Greece.

Greek President Costis Stefanopoulos has been quoted as saying, “The West is full of enemies.” The Greek constitution prohibits proselytizing.

There are provisions, especially Article 20 of the Law on Citizenship in Greece, which imposes sanctions, imprisonment and denial of Greek citizenship on participants of religious minorities, who are accused of participating in so-called anti-Hellenistic activities.

Despite the fact that Article 19 of the Law on Greek Citizenship has been repealed as a result of international pressure, according to which the government had the right to revoke Greek citizenship to persons called allogeneic (natives of non-Greek origin), Greece has not removed the retroactive Article to return citizenship to persons who have unjustly lost it.

The British historian Norman Davies writes in his book; “Europe, a History”: “Since the time of the Crusades, Orthodoxy has regarded the West as a source of oppression worse than that of the infidels.”

If we make a general analogy we can conclude that these statements are reminiscent of an inner emotional state, which still has deep roots in the Eastern Balkans, and that the common node is the perverted religious tradition.

This knot strengthens Greece’s alliance with Serbia. This mentality that has led to fanaticism, national religious chauvinism! It has also led analysts to draw the logical conclusion that the Greek presence in the European Union, NATO and other organizations is an anomaly and paradox.

Place of Lekë; 11/30/2020