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June 30, 2008 - 6:31 am - by Richard Fernandez
Michael J. Totten
2008-07-01 00:44:10

Whiskey: Burning down and desecrating monasteries and churches and cathedrals.

This is true. Orthodox churches have been desecrated and vandalized, not because they are Christian but because they are Serbian. No Albanian has touched a Catholic church in Kosovo. All the violence against Catholics was perpetrated by Serbs. The conflict is ethnic, not religious. The majority of Albanians are non-religious, and the same goes for the majority of Serbs.

All mosques funded by the Wahabbis.

This not true. The reconstruction of some, but not all, mosques destroyed by the Serbs were funded by Wahhabis. The others are not. Most Albanians detest Wahhabis, and the reason is instantly obvious for everyone who has ever been to Kosovo. Kosovo is culturally European and largely atheist, as France and England are. It is culturally opposite the Middle East, shockingly so to my eyes.

The usual hate-filled spewing on the mosques by Jihadis (Totten IIRC does not speak either Arabic or the various stew of slavic languages in Kosovo, nor has he attended many Mosques so would have no idea of what goes on other than his naive and idealistic fantasies).

I spoke to US military officers about this. The mosques are monitored, and they DO have native speakers inside. It isn’t a fantasy.

The KLA who are both gangsters and Jihadis dominate the Kosovar government and are linked extensively to Osama bin Laden, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Hezbollah, Iran, with ties going back to the early 1990’s.

The KLA certainly WERE a bunch of gangsters, but they were not associated with jihadists as the Bosnians were. The jihadists wanted to go to Kosovo to fight Serbs, and the KLA told them to get stuffed.

it’s the KLA who have the guns and do the killing.

The KLA no longer exists. NATO has the guns in Kosovo.