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19 March 2007 | 18:08 | Source: Tanjug PRIŠTINA -- Albanian media in Kosovo report today the Wahhabis have been active in the province since the early 1990’s. The reports claim that the radical Islamic sect has 30 religious schools in Kosovo, adding that their activity presents the Albanian community’s identity with “a serious challenge”. The Wahhabis mainly work to religiously indoctrinate impoverished Albanians, Bosniaks, Egyptians and Ashkalis, according to the Priština-based media. The sect, which refers to its members as “fighters of pure Islam”, impose their “exclusive teachings” during funerals, circumcision rituals and other religious gatherings, offering their version...

"Uneducated youth embrace Wahhabism" Vijesti, Podgorica, Montenegro, 14 October 2006 Podgorica: Dzemo Redzematovic, the main Podgorica imam, refused to either confirm or deny reports that there are supporters of Wahhabism among the Islamic community officials. When asked whether an imam in northern Montenegro who was educated in Saudi Arabia was a Wahhabi, Redzematovic replied that all those working for the Islamic community of Montenegro had to sign an agreement stating that they will work in line with traditional Islam and the Hanafi madhdhab. "Any violation of this paragraph represents a violation and termination of the contract. If the Islamic community...

Until recently, Serbia had no reason to worry about the radical Islamists know as the Wahhabis. Following the war in Bosnia, and the “humanitarian intervention” in Serbia’s province of Kosovo & Metohia, things began to change for the worse. In Kosovo, as in Bosnia before that, the Wahhabis gained a foothold via the so-called charity organizations, through which they financed and otherwise supported various extremist elements in both places. Wahhabism is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and now even Western Iraq. Although warned of the presence of these militant Islamists from Saudi Arabia, the Western power...