Most of the Roma in Kosovo are Muslims. And look how they are treated. No wonder that their leaders in Serbia, like all the other Muslim (including Albanian) leaders there, and like the government of almost every Muslim country on earth, so vigorously opposed, and oppose, the secession of Kosovo.
Every noxious trait in terrorism – Islamist, Maoist, Nazi, narcotic – meets in the unutterably vile Kosovo “Liberation” Army and its rancid little plaything sponsored by NATO and the EU.
The Roma in Kosovo look it and speak it. Like the Romanian ones in Belfast, for example. But are our own Gypsies “Roma”? They might have it in them, but anyone who can tick the White British box has all sorts of things in them. “Five or six families in Wales” are usually said still to speak British Romany, but researchers at Durham freely admit that they have been looking for those families for quite some time.
The Roma of Eastern Europe are an ethnic group, or several related ethnic groups. But how are our own Gypsies any different from Scottish tinkers or Irish Travellers, simply a section of the predominant population which refuses to abide by the same rules as the rest of us? As we have seen in Belfast, resentment of their special treatment in matters such as planning feeds hatred against the indisputably real Roma.
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Not surprisingly I support Kosovo.
ReplyDeleteAnd admire their fight for Freedom.
And for once admire the acts of NATO and UN which made it possible.
I hope you're not suggesting that being of a certain ethnic group should entitle or bar you from behaving in a certain way open or closed to another ethnic group. If "Gypsies" who look white break the law, it's the same law for Roma who don't. Hate crime is hate crime regardless of race. Blaming gypsies for the actions of racists in Belfast is far more unreasonable than me blaming the travellers attached to the Hoppings when my car is scratched, when it's just as likely the indigenous yobs who did it.
ReplyDeleteJohn, what do you like about them? Poisoning the Roma? They are ghastly.
ReplyDeletePatrick, I couldn't agree more. But we have wrongly tretaed the Gypsies, whom I cannot see are an ethnic group at all rather than a sort of class, as effectively exempt from all sorts of things. And now the price is being paid by Roma from Eastern Europe, who really are an ethnic group.