Srđa Trifković

Srđa Trifković (also Srdja Trifković; Serbian Cyrillic: Срђа Трифковић and as author Serge Trifkovic) (born July 19, 1954, in Belgrade) is a Serbian-American writer and was (1998-2008) foreign-affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles. He has a PhD in history from the University of Southampton. He is also director of the Center for International Affairs at the Rockford Institute. Trifkovic was also an unofficial spokesman for the Republika Srpska government in the 1990’s.

Trifkovic is the author of Sword of the Prophet, a book on the history and doctrines of Islam. A former consultant to President Vojislav Kostunica, he comments on Balkan politics and is a regular columnist for several conservative publications in the United States.

Biography

Trifkovic earned a BA (Hon) in international relations from the University of Sussex in 1977 and another, in political science, from the University of Zagreb in 1987. Since 1990 he has held a Ph.D in modern history from the University of Southampton, UK, and in 1991-1992 he pursued post-doctoral research on a Title VIII grant [1] from the U.S. Department of State as a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution in California.[2]

Beginning in 1980, Trifkovic has been a radio broadcaster for BBC World Service and Voice of America and later a correspondent covering southeast Europe for U.S. News & World Report and the Washington Times during which time he was an editor for the Belgrade magazine Duga.

Trifkovic has been an adjunct professor at the University of St Thomas in Houston, TX (1996-1997), and in August 1997 he joined the faculty of the short-lived Rose Hill College in Aiken, SC. In 1994-95 he was an unofficial spokesman for the Bosnian Serb government. [3] Trifkovic has published op-eds and commentaries in The Times[4] of London, [5] the San Francisco Chronicle, the American Conservative [6] and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and been a commentator on numerous national and international TV and radio programs, including the Oliver North Show on (MSNBC), CNN [7], CNN International, SKY News [8], BBC Radio 4 [9], BBC World Service [10] and CBC.[11] He has contributed to Liberty, the newspaper of the Serbian National Defense Council of America. [12] Trifkovic has worked as a political consultant to Aleksandar Karađorđević and Vojislav Koštunica, and as an adviser to Biljana Plavšić. In February 2000 he testified to the Canadian House of Commons on the situation in the Balkans. [13] In July 2000 he took part in a Congressional briefing [14] organized by Rep. Kucinich. Trifković has worked as a political consultant to Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia and Former Yugoslav President Vojislav Koštunica, as an adviser to Biljana Plavšić, and as representative of the Republika Srpska in London. In March 2003 he testified as an expert witness for the defense before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In September 2008 he testified again before the ICTY, this time as a material witness.

In June 2006 he gave the keynote address at a symposium on the Holocaust in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945, at Yad Vashem Center in Jerusalem. [15]

Books

Trifković has written three books:

• Ustasa: Croatian separatism and European politics, 1929-1945, London (1998) ISBN 18-92-47800-5 [16]
• The Sword of the Prophet: The politically incorrect guide to Islam: History, Theology, Impact on the World, Boston, Regina Orthodox Press (2002) ISBN 19-28-65311-1
• Defeating Jihad: How the War on Terrorism May Yet Be Won, In Spite of Ourselves, Regina Orthodox Press (2006).

The Sword of the Prophet received praise from conservative critics. It was called an "exceptionally fluid argument against militant Islam... Powerful stuff powerfully presented" by Ray Olson in Booklist. Writing in The Spectator, Frank Johnson called it "the sort of book which the professional anti-racists, and the British mosques, might try to ban before long." "Dr. Trifkovic understands Islam... The problem of historical ignorance in today’s English-speaking world, where claims about faraway lands and cultures are made on the basis of domestic multiculturalist assumptions, are hit right on the head by the author," wrote Taki Theodoracopulos in The American Conservative.

"Serge Trifkovic writes a calm and thoughtful tome... [H]e is arguing that a significant number of people subscribe to militant Islam, and that such militancy is a natural result of following the actual teachings of Muhammad and the Koran... If you want to wrestle with harsh truths rather than PC fiction, this book is a good place to start," concludes Steven Greenhut in The Orange County Register.

He was called a "noted Islamophobe" by neoconservative author Stephen Schwartz. In 2003 he was accused by Schwartz of being a supporter of Slobodan Milošević, though he was a signatory to a letter which protested Milošević in 1996 and has condemned him in numerous publications. Trifkovic received a formal apology from the publisher of Schwartz's article.

Filmography

• Islam: What the West Needs to Know
• Injustice For All - The International Criminal Court (ICC) [17]

External links

• Chronicles Magazine
• Short biography and articles at FrontPage Magazine
• Excerpts and Content of "The Sword of the Prophet"
• A picture of Srda Trifkovic