Albanians Turn on NATO ‘Liberators,’ as War Explodes in Kosovo

Balkan Analysis ^ | Posted on Thursday, March 18 @ 11:40:00 EST | C Deliso

[Robert_Paulson2]

You hit it spot on, as most of the world's trouble spots are sponsored by the "problems" with Islam.

[Robert_Paulson2]

...the answer to radical Islam is not radical anti-Islamism.

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survival may require that approach.

[Truth666]

It's not war - it's a christina kristallnacht - finishing the genocide of Kosovo Serbs

http://www.sramota.com/nato/

[Seselj]

This fundamentalist Islam has not taken root in the Balkans and specifically among Albanians.

Is that why dozens of Christian churches are on fire in Kosovo right now?

[ehoxha]

great article very insightful certianly worth reading in depth

[GeraldP]

>>>Is that why dozens of Christian churches are on fire in Kosovo right now?

Dozens of Orthodox Christian Churches are on fire because Serbs are Orthodox Christian, and they have done Orthodoxy a great injustice in this part of the world by murdering non-Orthodox Albanians and Slavs supposedly in the name of their great faith and nation.
Why don't you tell us a little bit about the conspiracy in which Catholics and Muslims have joined in, in the Balkans, against "Christian" Serbs?

[GeraldP]

>>>And if the Musli in Kosovo are the good and peaceful ones, why do they keep murdering and raping Christians an burning their churches down?

This is two different nationalities in conflict against each other, the problem being those who believe the other nationality to be a scourge. It is Albanians (Catholic and Muslim) against Serbs (Serb Orthodox).

[GeraldP]

My spelling was a bit vague.
Anti-Islamism as in the turning against Islamists is good and necessary, Islamists being the types who want shariah law to be the foundation of a state.
AntiIslam-ism as in the turning against anything or anybody associated with Islam is a radical stance with no justification since Islamism is our enemy as well as the enemy of those Muslims who consider Islamism to be a threat to good people everywhere, Muslims, Christians, Jewish, Buddhists, Indu, etc.

[ehoxha]

The KLA canard that 'evil serbs' killed innocent Albanians is simply false. The KLA admitted in the WSJ that some 2,400 of its fighters were KIA.

In addition, since Clinton's bombing ended it has been established that:
1) The KLA has murdered over 1,000 Albanians.
2) The KLA has murdered over 2,500 non-Albanians.

Kfor upon arriving in Kosovo concluded that the KLA was the problem. Hence its campaign which has resulted in the arrest and hard time for most of the KLA leadership.

The KLA was, is, and continues to be the problem as evidenced by the orchastrated Progrom against minorities in Kosovo-Metohija.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Islam = Islamism

[Robert_Paulson2]

The serbs are the good guys.
the islamics are the bad guys.
milosevek is probably innocent.
WE were on the WRONG side of this war... and it's due to Clintong.

It is way past time to swap sides, pull nato OUT and turn the serbs loose to save themselves, with Russian help if need be, OR OURS.

[norton]

Try omitting "arab" from your condemnation...Islam is the problem.
And, for those who seem to take offence; "islam" per se is not the issue, I am sure that somewhere, sometime, there has been a rational muslim/islamist.
However, today's version of fundamentalist islam has taken control of the cult, THAT is the problem. THAT is what islam failed to deal with. THAT is what will seal the deal for centuries to come.

[norton]

There has GOT to be a connection...too many things taking place in too little time, too close to elections there and campaigns here.

[Robert_Paulson2]

another thread, islam is not peace... tonight either.
18 Mar 2004 12:23:11 GMT
Irate Muslims burn four churches in north Nigeria

LAGOS, March 18 (Reuters) - Islamic militants burnt down four churches and a hotel in the northern Nigerian town of Dutse after a magistrate denied bail to a Muslim youth charged with setting another church on fire, police said on Thursday.

Police in the predominantly Muslim state of Jigawa said irate youths went on the rampage late on Wednesday in the provincial capital, southeast of Kano -- Nigeria's second largest city where hundreds have died in religious clashes in the past three years.

"The miscreants were angered by the court ruling, they went around the town and burnt down four churches and one hotel," a senior officer told Reuters by phone from Dutse.

The officer said the town was calm and that the police were investigating the violence, the second in the state in the last five months. He said no arrests have yet been made.

More than 5,000 people have been killed in religious violence in northern Nigeria in the past four years since the introduction of strict Islamic sharia penal code in 12 states.

[Robert_Paulson2]

another thread... Islam is not peace... tonight at least:
BELGRADE, March 18 (Itar-Tass) - “We strongly condemn the instigators of the current riots in Kosovo and want them to be stopped immediately, since they may explode the situation both within the territory and in the entire region,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Razov stated here on Thursday, commenting on the current situation in Kosovo. “The Russian side is ready to take part in the search for ways to settle this problem by means of the instruments it possesses,” Razov stated. The Russian deputy foreign minister had planned to visit Kosovo in the course of his three-day visit to Serbia and Montenegro. However, in reply to a request from Head of the U.N. Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo Harry Holkeri, the visit had to be put off due to the dangerous situation there.

The situation in Kosovo is still very tense – Albanian extremists are attacking the Serbs, the U.N. police and International KFOR units. Dozens of houses in the predominantly Serbian villages were burned down. The U.N. police and KFOR soldiers are waging real battles against throngs of Albanians. At least fifteen men were killed and not less than three hundred others were wounded during the Wednesday clashes of Albanian extremists with Serbs, KFOR soldiers, and U.N. policemen. These figures were released by the Crisis HQ of the Clinical Centre of Pristina University.

The most dangerous situation is in the village of Chaglavica, not far from Pristina, where approximately one thousand Serbs had lived. The Albanians broke through the U.N. police cordons into the village forcing Serbian women and children to flee to the neighbouring Serbian village of Laple-Selo. About ten U.N. police vehicles are aflame on the road into Chaglavica. About thirty armoured cars of the American KFOR contingent were moved into the village. The Americans were able to save the lives of at least ten wounded servicemen of the international force. Serbian houses are aflame in the village.

Albanians attacked on Wednesday afternoon the several dozens of Serbians, still remaining in Pristina. Their apartments were stoned and incendiary bombs were hurled into them. A curfew was clamped down on the city on Wednesday. However, according to a report of the Serbian BETA News Agency, about two thousand armed Albanians were moved towards the city from other districts of Kosovo.

Albanian extremists have set fire to the Holy Archangel Orthodox Monastery near the town of Prizren. The Monastery had celebrated the 650th anniversary of its foundation two years ago. The St. George Church in Prizren is also on fire. The Albanians ransacked a Serbian Orthodox Church in Djakovica, where five women had sought asylum. The fate of about two hundred Serbs from Gnilan in eastern Kosovo is still unknown. All the Serbian houses there were burned down. The population of Gnilan tried to flee to Serbia, but only five burned automobiles were so far found on the Bujanovac-Gnilan road with no bodies inside. The Albanians had most likely captured them all.

The Belgrade television describes the Kosovo events as an “ethnic purge”. There are about two million Albanians and 70-100 thousand Serbians and people of other nationalities living in Kosovo today. Increasing numbers of Serbian politicians believe Kosovo will shortly be “ethnically clean” due to the Wednesday massive exodus of Serbians from their lands, which can be expected to continue in the next few days. After that the Albanians will be able to declare their independence from Serbia.

Head of the Serbian Government’s Coordination Committee on Kosovo Affairs Neboija Chovic has accused the U.N. police in Kosovo and KFOR for “guarding only themselves”. For his part, Head of the Interim U.N. Administration Mission in Kosovo Harry Holkeri described Wednesday as “a black day for Kosovo”. He called on the population to keep the peace and to give the U.N. police and KFOR soldiers a chance to guarantee “safety for every citizen”.

It was learned that an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the situation in Kosovo would be held in New York on Thursday.

[Seselj]

Whatever. It's not worth my time arguing with someone who tries to find an excuse for the burning of churches.

[GeraldP]

if(mind==simple)
{
Islam=Islamism;
result=fclose(hope);
}
else
{
fopen(historybook);
fread(alot);
result=fopen(learnsomething);
}

[af_vet_1981]

At least 22 people, including a French KFOR peacekeeper reported dead and hundreds more wounded; machine gunners firing at will, churches and mosques ablaze, whole populations chafing at the bit, programmed to seek and destroy.

There are too many weapons in the hands of evil doers. You can't keep the peace when combatants or terrorists are making war. You have to disarm, capture, or kill them. No one should burn churches or mosques to inflame the already tense situation.

[FITZ]

however to put the same stamp on the Muslims of the Balkans

Are you claiming they aren't real Muslims?