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Albanian Muslims object to city's statue of Mother Teresa
The Scotsman ^ | March 30, 2006 | BENET KOLEKA

Posted on 03/30/2006 2:39:43 AM PST by MadIvan

MUSLIMS in Albania's northern city of Shkoder are opposing plans to erect a statue to Mother Teresa, the ethnic Albanian Catholic nun in line for elevation to sainthood by the Vatican.

The dispute is unusual for Albania, where religion was banned for 27 years under the dictator Enver Hoxha, and "mixed" marriages are the norm.

Seventy per cent of the population are liberal Muslims, the rest are Christian Orthodox and Catholic. But Muslim groups in Shkoder rejected the local council plan for a statue, saying it "would offend the feelings of Muslims".

"We do not want this statue to be erected in a public place, because we see her as a religious figure," said Bashkim Bajraktari, Shkoder's mufti, a Muslim religious leader.

Several residents said they felt there was an underground effort to treat Shkoder as a Catholic town, ignoring its majority Muslim community.

Shkoder's Muslims recently protested against crosses being erected on prominent hilltops around the city.


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My response: go to hell.

Regards, Ivan


1 posted on 03/30/2006 2:39:44 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: LadyofShalott; Tolik; mtngrl@vrwc; pax_et_bonum; Alkhin; agrace; EggsAckley; dinasour; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 03/30/2006 2:40:29 AM PST by MadIvan (Ya hya chouhada! Dune fans, visit - http://www.thesietch.com/)
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To: MadIvan

...saying it "would offend the feelings of Muslims".

And we know now that offending the feelings of Muslims is the greatest crime one can commit.


3 posted on 03/30/2006 2:49:07 AM PST by Sometimes A River (America can do nothing for the Muslim world)
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To: MadIvan
saying it "would offend the feelings of Muslims".

Any non-Muslim with a beating heart has the same effect.

So does the sun rising in the East.

4 posted on 03/30/2006 2:49:46 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot
F 'em.

L

5 posted on 03/30/2006 2:50:47 AM PST by Lurker (In God I trust. Everyone else shows me their hands.)
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To: MadIvan
There they go again, showing the world how peaceful and tolerant Muslims are. Of course, buring down 12th century orthadox churches shows how "peaceful and tolerant" they are too, but this is ignored by MSM in the west. They have to show Clinton did the right thing after all...
6 posted on 03/30/2006 2:51:35 AM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: MadIvan
Seventy per cent of the population are liberal Muslims

Sounds like "liberal" Muslims are just as annoying as the liberals we have in the West.
7 posted on 03/30/2006 3:01:44 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (No coded message in my tagline)
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To: SkyPilot

We certainly wouldnt want to offend those sons of Beaches would we?


8 posted on 03/30/2006 3:07:25 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: MadIvan
But Muslim groups in Shkoder rejected the local council plan for a statue, saying it "would offend the feelings of Muslims". "We do not want this statue to be erected in a public place, because we see her as a religious figure," said Bashkim Bajraktari, Shkoder's mufti, a Muslim religious leader.

Oh yes, can't have them be offended by a person from another religion that had a heart & soul to help those less fortunate without regard to religion! That would show the rules of Allah as inferior! Allah forbid that one might demonstrate to the world the God is bigger than any one book!

9 posted on 03/30/2006 3:08:29 AM PST by EBH (We're too PC to understand WAR has been declared upon us and the enemy is within.)
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Liberal Muslims? You mean like vegetarian cannibals?

Who the H*** made up THAT phrase?


10 posted on 03/30/2006 3:11:08 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: sinkspur

ping


11 posted on 03/30/2006 3:14:13 AM PST by GOPJ (Peace happens when evil is vanquished -- Cal Thomas)
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To: MadIvan

Liberal Muslims?

Only in the MSN.

When push comes to shove their true colors come out.

To them it's "all about us".


12 posted on 03/30/2006 3:17:19 AM PST by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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To: MadIvan

Will there be a pool?

Certainly, the Muslims will knock the statue down sooner or later. It's their style.

Remember the Buddhas of Bamiyan?


13 posted on 03/30/2006 3:44:40 AM PST by Beckwith (The liberal media has picked sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
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My response: go to hell.

For sure they will go to hell...

14 posted on 03/30/2006 3:45:27 AM PST by ChristianDefender (There is no such thing as Moderate Islam...)
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...offend the feelings of Muslims

OMG, we can't do that. /sarcasm off

15 posted on 03/30/2006 4:00:25 AM PST by zip ((Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA))))
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To: zip

There was a fool from Hamas on Sky News last night who was talking about the Palestinians' feelings.

I shouted at the television, "I don't care."

I don't. When Muslims start to care about the feelings of those in the West, then I may be marginally interested in theirs. But as they don't care about the effect of people killing us from their sect, I don't care about them.

Just as an added note, I had hoped Israel would get a kick arse government that would deal with fellows like the one from Hamas, London style, with 5 rounds to the head. Sadly, no.

Regards, Ivan


16 posted on 03/30/2006 4:05:28 AM PST by MadIvan (Ya hya chouhada! Dune fans, visit - http://www.thesietch.com/)
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To: MadIvan
Seventy per cent of the population are liberal Muslims...

And what, praytell, distinguishes a liberal muslim.

They only wish to enslave the infidels...rather than blow them up or behead them?

(I suspect it doesn't mean that they are pro-choice and for gay marriage.)

17 posted on 03/30/2006 4:15:10 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: MadIvan
I am waiting for a news story in which some proposed action was stopped out of concern that it would offend the feelings of Christians.
18 posted on 03/30/2006 4:24:10 AM PST by Clive
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To: MadIvan

I am offended that the muzzies are offended.

I am offended that they are offended by other religions.

I am offended that they think they are better than anyone else.

Therefore, be gone from my sight, hearing, & smell!


19 posted on 03/30/2006 4:24:31 AM PST by Mister Da (Nuke 'em til they glow!)
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To: MadIvan

"Liberal Muslims" is an evanexcent phenomenon.


20 posted on 03/30/2006 4:27:44 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them OVER THERE than here.)
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