“We’re back”.. using Noel Malcom as your primary source? That speaks volumes. Noel Malcom is after all concealing his Mission as an Advocate of the Albanian Separatist Movement and disseminating Albanian Nationalist Myths Without a Single Shred of Evidence.
Greater Albanian Ideologists are Malcolm’s Main Source: What Rexhep Qosja Wrote in Albanian, Noel Malcolm Published in English.But, even if he has managed to do so, even to superficial students of South-East European history it is obvious that scientifically dependable references to those allegedly massive materials are absent from his book! Even where a quotation is given, it is evident that it is there rather to prove the author’s pre-set political thesis, and not to illustrate a complex picture of the past of this part of Europe. It is stunning that Malcolm, in spite of his alleged insight into such extensive archival materials and literature, has not advanced a step further than the many times repeated great-Albanian theses launched by national ideologists from Tirana and Priština. All Malcolm’s key theses are found in the 1995 Memorandum of the Forum of Albanian Intellectuals, signed by Rexhep Qosja.[2] The only difference is that Malcolm’s book appeared in English, in London.
On, the personal note…for a scholar who is neither versed in Slav studies nor a balcanologist, and who, judging by his scholarly credentials, until 4-5 years ago never had anything whatsoever to do with the history of the Balkans, it strikes one as unconvincing, even in sheer physical terms, that he could have managed to digest and synthesize, within 2-3 years, such a huge quantity of archives and archival holdings in so many languages, consulted such a massive literature in eleven European languages – a quite heterogeneous literature at that.
Even by the some sheer miracle he managed to do all that, come one this is the same person who strongly believes that Christian Europe Should Not Have Been Liberated from Ottoman Rule!!! Couldn’t get worse than that!
Famous British Historian H. W. V. Temperley Clearly Disagrees with the Albanian Hireling Malcolm.Even if we ignore the views of reputable Europeans, it takes no more than a superficial knowledge of the provisions of the 1878 Prizren League Statute or of later links of the Muslim Albanians with radical Muslim political movements to our day, including the former’s training in well known religious centres of the kind, to conclude that Malcolm is either an ignoramus or, simply, that he intentionally ignores the facts. The Croatian historian Bernard Stuli underlines precisely the pan-Islamic character of the League: in all sixteen articles of its Statute the political subjects of the League are simply Muslims. They refer to the “sublime religious law” Şeriat), advocating alliance with “believers of the same religious affiliation in the Balkans”, whereas desertion of the alliance is qualified, by Article 16, as disloyalty to Islam.[8] That we are dealing with unprecedented partiality blind to the facts is shown by Malcolm’s claim that the Orthodox Serbs, the “Orthodox side”, in contrast to the Albanians, “constantly employs religious rhetoric to justify the defense of ‘sacred’ Serb interests”, this being, in his opinion, “a classic example of religion being mobilized and manipulated for ideological purposes”.[9] According to Malcolm, the Albanians are not only tolerant –they are also guardians of Orthodox religious sites. What that tolerance looked like in the past is best shown today by some eighty Orthodox churches and monasteries, most of them medieval, torn down in Kosovo and Metohija since June 1999, in the presence and under the auspices of NATO forces at that!
Albo, your despicable aggression masked into comment (“Serbs are truly great fighters too–I mean they start wars and let other fight for them. You took over the Yugoslav army and using rape and criminal scum to terrorize people succeeded initially, only to be bitch slapped by Slovenia and Croatia who got some new weapons. Oh, I will not count NATO. Start another war and see. Kosova will be armed by US, like Croatia was. Are you ready for another Krajina? Albanian troops (NATO members by then) will great you next time, that’s why you don’t dare do more than bark”)
makes it more relevant why one like, Serb nation, learns pretty quickly to become a warrior when surrounded by such gross characters. Just take a look at their next door neighbors, aka Albo. And stop making futile threats, especially when it’s taken into account that Southern Serbian province of Kosovo, run by NATO since June 1999, is the fourth region with the highest corruption rate in the world, said a report from the organization Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog based in Berlin.
Transparency International’s 2007 Global Corruption Barometer showed that Kosovo province under the NATO-imposed Albanian separatist KLA leadership, well known for its underground roots in illegal trade dominated by the heroin trade and human trafficking, is among the most corrupt regions in the world today.
The survey conducted by Transparency International, which included 60 world countries and territories, shows that Kosovo province ranks fourth in corruption — right after Albania and before FYR of Macedonia, while Cameroon and Cambodia are at the top of the list.
According to the 2007 Global Corruption Barometer, the countries/regions with the highest levels of corruption and bribery are Cambodia, Cameroon, Albania, Kosovo province, FYR Macedonia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania and Senegal.
The Gallup International Association that has conducted the Barometer survey on behalf of Transparency International, cites that 67 percent of Kosovo province residents have stated they have to pay bribes to get services.This says a lot. Kosovo ranks ahead of Gaza-GAZA!
