Of course, the idea of Kosovo as an sovereign state is completely preposterous, and Russia will rightly veto any attempt to give effect to it. But if it happened, then would even that be the final dismemberment of independent, multi-ethnic, Socialist Yugoslavia? Somehow, I doubt it. After all, if Kosovo can become a state, then anywhere can.
In fact, when (in accordance with current trends) the "free" market has produced a Muslim majority in the former Metropolitan Counties of South and West Yorkshire, will they be entitled to secede from the United Kingdom? The Kosovo "Liberation" Army, reflecting the region's history, is a striking cross between the "militant Islam" of the Pennines and its antagonists in the BNP or Combat 18: black-shirted Wahhabi Holocaust-deniers who smuggle the Taliban's heroin into Europe.
For that matter, when (in accordance with current trends) the "free" market has produced a Hispanic majority right along the American border with Mexico, will those areas be entitled to secede from the United States? And what of a number of cities in France, which are or very soon will be predominantly Muslim and non-Francophone?
If not, why not?
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Can i ask when you were last in Kosovo? Being someone who is currently there and working to sort out the issues in this area it certainly seems to me that you have very little understanding about the current or past situation in this region. It is absolutely nothing like a load of Polish moving to Hammersmith or Mexicans moving to the USA. I do not agree that this should just be steam rollered though there are far to many factors at work here to make sweeping comments the way you have here.
ReplyDelete"I do not agree that this should just be steam rollered though there are far to many factors at work here"
ReplyDeleteQuite.
I wonder what Roger is doing in Kosovo that makes him an expert. People like General L. McKenzie is very qualified to make informed comments on the Balkans. After all, he was in command of the UN during that war. He says that the Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanans have played the UN like a fiddle. These people are linked to Al-Qaeda. The article to read is on this site:
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If Kosovo becomes independent we will have a radical Islamic country in Europe which will be a safe place for terrorists to hide until they strike at Europe.
Precisely.
ReplyDeletegosh, davo and islamphobia. I'm shocked.
ReplyDeleteWhat is Islamphobia? If it is not wanting either a neo-Nazi, or a Wahhabi, or a heroin-trafficking enclave in Europe, then I am happy to plead guilty to it.
ReplyDeletethanks for confirming my assertion.
ReplyDelete"heroin-trafficking enclave in Europe".
Hmmm....yup.
That's the KLA , all right.
ReplyDeleteI see that even you don't argue with the description of them as neo-Nazis and Wahhabi. For so they are. Indeed, the relationship between European Islam (an ignored area generally, except in relation to recent immigration) and Nazism warrants just the sort of BBC Four or Radio Four programme, with newspaper tie-in articles, that there will never be.
Not least, these things will never be because they would require some facing up to the truth about more recent, and indeed ongoing, events in Yugoslavia.
"the relationship between European Islam (an ignored area generally, except in relation to recent immigration) and Nazism"
ReplyDeleteum....yup.
"um...yup", indeed.
ReplyDeleteHitler himself was a great admirer of Islam, and believed that if Vienna had fallen to the Turks, then German-speaking Europe would never have fallen into the condition from which he considered it his duty and destiny to rescue her.
The settled "Aryan" Muslim populations of the Balkans, going back to the Turkish period of course, were enthusisatic collaborators with the Nazis against all and sundry (by no means only Jews).
Therefore, to this day, the neocon-backed Wahhabi KLA wear black shirts in deferrence to their fathers and grandfathers in the SS, for which the late Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia as also a recruitment sergeant before going on, seamlessly, to be a Saudi-backed Wahhabi rabble-rouser who enjoyed strong neoconservative support.