As NATO forces continue to bombard Yugoslavia, ethnic Christian minorities in the Middle East have come out in concerted support of the Serbs, whom they see as victims of expansionist Islam. The airstrikes are aimed at forcing Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to accept a peace plan granting NATO-monitored autonomy to the province of Kosovo, the majority of whose population are ethnic Albanian Muslims.
Nobody argues that Islamic elements fomented the conflicts in the Balkans.
Christian minorities in the Middle East said they feel an affinity to the Serbs. Claiming historical repression by Islamic regimes and compatriots, many ethnic Christians in the Middle East regard Muslims with fear and distrust. However, we do not understand our decision makers who seem to be only in favor of Muslim rights and always opposed to Christian's rights in that region. The New York-based Coptic American Union questioned U.S. participation in military strikes in Yugoslavia, while it said the Clinton Administration ignores the plight of Coptic Christians in Egypt. A spokesman for the South Sudan Movement, Dominic Mohammed, said from New York that the Muslim regime in Khartoum had killed mostly Christian South Sudanese in huge numbers.