Posted on 05/22/2016 2:58:28 AM PDT by Cronos
Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store.
The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and blamed for spreading Wahhabism the conservative ideology dominant in Saudi Arabia in the 17 years since an American-led intervention wrested tiny Kosovo from Serbian oppression.
Since then much of that time under the watch of American officials Saudi money and influence have transformed this once-tolerant Muslim society at the hem of Europe into a font of Islamic extremism and a pipeline for jihadists.
Kosovo now finds itself, like the rest of Europe, fending off the threat of radical Islam. Over the last two years, the police have identified 314 Kosovars including two suicide bombers, 44 women and 28 children who have gone abroad to join the Islamic State, the highest number per capita in Europe.
...It is a stunning turnabout for a land of 1.8 million people that not long ago was among the most pro-American Muslim societies in the world. Americans were welcomed as liberators after leading months of NATO bombing in 1999 that spawned an independent Kosovo.
After the war, United Nations officials administered the territory and American forces helped keep the peace. The Saudis arrived, too, bringing millions of euros in aid to a poor and war-ravaged land.
But where the Americans saw a chance to create a new democracy, the Saudis saw a new land to spread Wahhabism.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Dry is good and wind is better... :-)
Ha-ha-ha!!!!
How many conservatives were ahead of the curb on this on this forum?
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