[ April 24, 2024 ]
Kosovo 06.20.2017: The situation in the former Yugoslav and Serbian province of Kosovo is increasingly disconcerting to observers who detect a brewing toxic cocktail of local poverty, unemployment, dissatisfaction with the social and political conditions and radical Islamic activism. Arab Islamists are freely moving in from Albania and the Middle East, working from behind the scenes, banking on the fact of majority Muslim religious tradition of the Albanian population, a demographic which straddles five volatile Balkan countries (Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro) in two of which it is the absolute majority (while it is fast becoming the majority in two others). The 2015 and 2016 massive Muslim refugee inflow into Europe, which Germany and Turkey facilitated, has left its mark on Kosovo where the infamous local mafia has played its part in kidnappings and in the smuggling of some of the Muslim refugees in order to exploit cheaply their labor and recruit them for nefarious activities. Furthermore, some of these refugees were terrorists or terrorist sympathizers on a mission of Jihad in Europe. In addition, former members of the once-outlawed “Kosovo Liberation Army” (KLA) are now prominent refugee smugglers who traffic in people from their safe houses in Kosovo. A few years back, the crime networks in Kosovo smuggled organs for transplantation surgeries. A massive political scandal about human organ trafficking rocked Kosovo in the past. And some organs were forcibly taken from kidnapped and tortured Serbs (in the wake of pogroms against minority Christians of Kosovo). These trafficking networks also bring in Wahabis and soft types open to radicalism who stay low but plan high. The rural side of the Kosovo-Albanian (Kosovar) population is largely accepting of the Islamist agenda. On the other hand, the urban Kosovars offer some sources of resistance to the trends of increasing islamization but there is no pushing back against the semi-underground criminal networks that effectively operate throughout Kosovo thanks to the Albanian tribal allegiances, which have always been strong in this region. To wit, the hidden tribal connections enable backdoor pressure channels to a person in the position of authority to open in order to make that person do the bidding of the shady character(s) operating from behind the scenes. Matters came to a head this month between the westernized urban bureaucratic elite and the mob-steering Islamists in Pristina when thousands of rural style Kosovo Albanian Muslim women demonstrated against the burqa and hijab ban by the government. It is a war between the European identity of secularized former Yugoslav Albanians and the ever louder noises of change in favor of Pan-Islamism as the new identity for Albanians.
Are Kosovo-Albanians Muslims Or Albanians?
On a Friday in June of this year there was an all-female Muslim protest in the streets of the Kosovar capital of Pristina aimed against the decision by the government of Kosovo to ban the recently acquired habit of dressing up in religious garbs for public schools and public places. There were around 3,000 Kosovo Albanian Muslim women protesting on the public square in the Kosovar capital of Pristina. It all began a few months ago when one school girl was told not to wear a head scarf or hijab. The reporter writes that this case surprised even him and not just the people in the region because [Muslim] religion used to be confined to the villages and to playing no serious part in the cities. In Pristina today it is rare to see a woman dressed in a burqa although the hijab is somewhat more popular, and even more so in certain parts, like the suburb of Vranjevac, although such occurrences are considered to be private decisions and do not excite anyone.
Story continues below advertisementThe rise in the influence of religion in [former Communist] countries where religion was “forbidden” is obvious. However, in this process now there is a place for extremists who are busy filling the vacuum. Kosovo is not immune to this process either, where after the successful battle for independence from Serbia a religious dimension of life is being discovered. Albanians are fast becoming Muslims, the national secular identity yielding to the religious one.
Last week, even the US ambassadfor in Pristina warned about the ever greater presence of Islamic ideological extremists. Colleagues from the Radio Free Europe told this reporter that even as far back as 2007 the Kosovar ministry of internal affairs expressed “concern” about the appearance of Islamic extremism and the Wahabi movement in Kosovo. Ten years ago, the Wahabis in Kosovo began to set up their own infrastructure. As in many other cases out there, as is their habit, they most frequently did this under the cover of humanitarian aid [from Arab countries].
A month ago, there was a case of imam Xhemajl (Jemal) Duka. He even changed his name to look more acceptable, for he was a foreigner to Kosovo. He used to distribute money to the poor locals (20 euros a pop) to make them join the Wahabi movement [founded in Saudi Arabia]. He operated from a local mosque in the region of Drenica, and he refused to accept the rules of the [more moderate] Islamic Society of Kosovo. The locals signed a petition with 6,000 signatures demanding that he be prevented from doing his work. The organizer of petition was Ajnishahe Halimi who said the following for our radio: “It is true that I am a Muslim woman and belong to the Islamic faith in its traditional form as it used to be, but not to that Iranian or Iraqi form. The situation is dramatic, not only in Drenica but throughout Kosovo with regards to this Wahabi sect. Following the war [with Serbia] Kosovo became engulfed with extremism and radicalization, which can lead to Muslim fundamentalism.” In response to the petition, the Kosovar authorities expelled the radical imam and sent him back to Albania.
In Pristina today there is a running street gossip to the effect that this radical protest of 3,000 Kosovar women was instigated by clandestine payments to protesters. Although there is no proof yet for that, this reporter said that he can recall a conversation he had with a Roman Catholoic priest in Bosnia who was from the Bosnian branch of the Catholic Order of St. Francis. He told me that Bosnian women seen wearing burqas in Sarajevo were paid to do so, and to them this was just a supplemental day income because they would spend nights in discos and in night clubs. He would not be surprised to think that something like that is happening in Pristina! The question is: who is paying these people? Someone is bringing in money, using that money with a definite aim in mind.
Protests in Pristina drew in a few thousand people this time, but who is to say that next time they won’t bring out 10,000 people? That’s another example of how easy it is to manipulate people who deal with poverty and survival issues. In Kosovo today the overwhelming majority of young people are unemployed, borders are not guarded [customs officials are bribed easily] and it is an ideal opportunity to re-direct the zeal for independence – now that it is satisfied with the independent state of Kosovo – into a zeal for extremism.
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21 Comments
6 years ago
All this thanks to NATO AND THE MISERABLE OF JAVIER SOLANA, WHO SAID THAT EUROPA WAS AN EXPERIMENT FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
6 years ago
Reply to
Juan
Really? I’ve read some things about that. Some people say that it’s paranoia but the UN is envolved so not so sure. Anyway if anyone knows anything about it please fill me in. Is that the Agenda 21 thing?
6 years ago
Reply to
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6 years ago
Reply to
Juan
It all started a bit before:
French General, Pierre Marie Gallois (father of the French atom bomb):
6 years ago
Even ISIS used to make money selling harvested organs from their christian , yazidi victims.
Even NATO member the Islamic Republic of Turkey allows harvesting of organs from refugee childrens http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8
And that includes killing children ! And even UN was aware of it for over 3 years but keeps blaming syrian govt !
6 years ago
Kosovo is another disastrous decision by our ruling class. The Serbs were attempting send Muslims back to Albania when Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright decided that sending Albanians back to Albania was another holocaust and unleashed a 78 day bombing campaign to liberate Kosovo from their cruel Serb Christian overlords and allow peace loving Muslims to rule Kosovo.
6 years ago
Reply to
Robinske2
Wasn’t there a pipeline somewhere in this story of America bringing democracy to Kosovo?
6 years ago
Reply to
berserker
There’s always a ‘pipeline’ … never mind that everyone who wants pipelines has pipelines.
6 years ago
Reply to
berserker
Camp Bondsteel is (I believe) a second largest US base in Europe. USA military analysts say it is in a key position to protect the precious pipelines. As for other riches, 3rd in Europe and 5th in the word coil deposits plus a plethora of copper, gold and other mineral riches valued at billions. Those who created a false narrative like former secretary of state Madeleine Albright are now new owners and “investors” in the province.
6 years ago
Reply to
Robinske2
As an American, who is from a patriotic family line that fought in every war going back to before the U.S. was a nation, I apologize to the Serbians for the felonious acts of our former President Clinton. I knew it was wrong back then.
6 years ago
Another failed state of the ever failing failure of islam.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Any so-called state named pislamic is by definition a failed state. muzzrats have no clue what to do, yes they know how to murder, rape and the rest (well written in their holy pissbook) otherwise they have no idea.
6 years ago
Reply to
pipo
muslims are parasites living on carrion, that is what islam demands of them, that is what they do.
6 years ago
Has anyone as George Soros? Lol He has paid protesters here in the US and probably all over the world at one time or another. I don’t think there’s a country anywhere that he hasn’t tried to influence with his money. He has an agenda and he’ll do anything to get it done!
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6 years ago
Thanks Bubba! Clinton and Madeline Halfbright helped to bring this utopian paradise about.
6 years ago
Thank You Bill Clinton….bombed the Serbian Chirstians and left us with this!
6 years ago
the last time that happened America bombed them , killing many people in the cities……
6 years ago
Over a hundred thousand armed “freedom fighters” made their way from all over the middle east to Yugoslavia during the clinton administration. No one thought that was odd and a glimpse of things to come for Europe?
