Posted on 12/11/2004 2:57:31 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
Recent statement by the departing Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge that a profile of a terrorist must be described in a different way is an encouraging sign. Ridge said that al-Qaeda is actively recruiting terrorists among the white race: Bosnians, Chechens and among the Muslims integrated in the Western society, in particular, women. The new profile of a terrorist - the white al-Qaeda - removes another constraint in the battle against the islamic terrorism that has become a world struggle.
The bad part of the Ridge's statement, however, is that it has come relatively late, and that it is partially true.
The proof that Ridge's statement is true could have been heard immediately after 9/11. For example, immediately after the hit on the World Trade Center, I was summoned by a Belgrade TV Politika where I alluded that the central threat to the West may not come from al-Qaeda members recruited from Arab countries or Asia, but from the members and sympathizers of these terrorists mingling among the white races of Europe. The rationale is simple: since the al-Qaeda attacks on US will not end, and all Middle Eastern visitors to the US will immediately become suspects, terrorists need killers that will go unnoticed by the authorities and, increasingly, the suspecting public.
Since the middle eastern racial type is unique, and despite all efforts by the US government to respect all racial types, whether they like it or not, this racial type will be profiled. Precisely because of this, al-Qaeda has decided to recruit its terrorist killers among muslims that have a racial blend in a western society and a large pool of this racial type is found in the Balkans among Albanians and Bosnian Muslims.
Also important is that the 9/11 attack should be understood as the Islamists do: that it was a prelude designed to test al-Qaeda's possibilities and explore American vulnerabilities that are to be used in the final assault. Al-Qaeda wants the final assault to inflict a mortal blow to America or inflict sufficiently large damage so that US would become a desert that will never be able to recover into an oasis of freedom.
If the aim is a mortal attack on the US, then acts of the 9/11 type seem to be important to the terrorists only as morale boosters for their allegiance. But to achieve destruction of America, islamic terrorists want to hit targets such as nuclear facilities or the stockpiles of the atomic weapons, or use the weapons of mass destruction that will kill all alive but keep the material wealth of the US which islamic terrorists covet.
In December 2003 I've also alluded to this nuclear and WMD threat on a Belgrade TV show, and unfortunately it seems not early enough: soon thereafter, the news came that at least 10 top secret disks pertaining to the US nuclear program have been stolen from the Nuclear Laboratory in Los Alamos. The more bizarre is that this was the second time that top secret nuclear files have been stolen from that laboratory.
The repeat of the theft would not have happened unless some serious security holes exist and not just as absence of sufficient security personnel but, more importantly, as a political refusal to look into the eyes of the truth. Because of this, there is a real possibility that the institutions such as the one in Los Alamos will become infiltration centers that will lead the terrorist activities in the US and the peoples best suited to infiltrate these institutions and destroy America from the inside are the "white al-Qaeda" found among the Muslims of the Balkans - most notably the Muslim Albanians and Bosnians. That is why al-Qaeda is actively recruiting among them.
Ridge has made a similar mistake by not including into the new terrorist profile the islamic Albanians, or more precisely, their organized political-criminal hybrid that dominates Europe and has recently dethroned the Italian Mafia in the US as the leading criminal enterprise. This failure may be a tragic result of the Balkan policies that US has had in the Balkans and it compounds the political and security mistakes that the ex-Yugoslav and now Serbian authorities are making.
In treatment of the islamic problem in the Balkans the accent of the problem was always shifted onto the Bosnian Muslims while, in the case of Albanians, the phenomena of islamic fanaticism was downplayed.
When analyzing the Albanian society, for example, the typical depiction is of a conglomeration of 3 religious groups, and that the Islamic one is made up of Sunnis and many other dervish sects among whom the Becktesh was the largest. The cliché was that Albanians have overcome all of their religious differences and achieved national unity so, the cliché goes, religion does not matter to the Albanians. Therefore, the impact of Islam on the politics of Albanians was neglected and with that the potential influence of the al-Qaeda type organizations was also neglected.
Many superficial elements did give this clichéd impression. Albania was ruled by an atheistic regime for 50 years and it was removed only recently with the fall of communism; all Albanian separatist groups that operated in the Balkans had a distinctly marxist outlook and were nostalgic of Albania that was stalinist at the time.
The clichéd political profile of Albanians in the Balkans suggested that the Albanians are secularized society with a negligible Islamic influence. Along with the neglect of the force of Islam among Albanians, whether deliberate or not but nevertheless a false religious picture was also portrayed of the Albanian population. For example, the much touted "Balkan expert" Stephen Schwartz recently made a claim that 15% of Albanians in Macedonia are Christian while a more realistic picture is a negligible decimal. Similarly, in Kosovo, claims are made that hundreds of thousands are Catholic when in fact the Kosovo Albanian Catholic congregation led by Bishop Mark Sopi is at 20,000 - just below two percent.
In addition to the overwhelming numbers and behind the surface of clichés attempting to whitewash the Islamic influence among Albanians are cultural practices that suggest a much more "Islamic" character of Albanians then Bosnian Muslims.
For example, even during the years of hyper-atheism of the communist Yugoslavia, Albanian recruits in the ex-Yugoslav army refused pork products at an overwhelmingly larger rate then did the Bosnian Muslims; Albanian soldiers demanded that the toilets be outfitted not with paper but water hoses; belief in djenet and huria (Islamic heaven's virgins) that are waiting for the devout ones is much more widespread among the Albanians then the Bosnian Muslims. What's more alarming is the spread of the Wahabism among the Albanians across Balkans. In fact, the most prominent Kosovo Albanian clergyman, Redzxep Boya, is a Wahabi schooled cleric and exerts tremendous influence on the political landscape of this province. In Albania itself, furthermore, Muslims are increasingly renouncing moderate Henif-Islam and flocking to the militant Wahabism.
The Wahabi Redzxep Boya was recently removed from the leadership position and along with these traditional Islamic practices of takhiyah that require a Muslim to deceive the infidel in order to bring victory to Islam; the upsurge in Islamic fanaticism among Albanians; sheer scale of population numbers; general cultural predisposition to the extreme Islamic practices, as well as the vast and brutal criminal network that stretches across the world... all represent a terrorist profile that should alarm the West and in particular, the US.
The profile should be even more alarming because the al-Qaeda has already established a good terrorist network among the Albanians in the Balkans. During the mandate of the post-communist President of Albania, Sali Berisha, al-Qaeda infiltrated that country with great deal of help from Berisha's chief of security (SHIK) Baskim Gazidede who may have organized bin-Laden's visit to Albania. Gazidede also organized the secret training camps for the Albanian gunmen, KLA, in Albania itself, Kosovo and Macedonia, and some of the financing for the camps came from al-Qaeda.
After the fall of the Berisha government, Gazidede allegedly flew to safety to Syria. Despite his departure and presence of the NATO troops in Albania and Kosovo, the goal of Islamic terrorists is unchanged for this region: to create a large, majority Albanian and Muslim state in the Balkans by annexing territories from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Greece to Albania and to use that islamic state as a launching pad for destruction of the West.
With its support for the extreme islamic forces in the Balkans, the US has contributed greatly to the spread of terrorism and insecurity in the region. Extremists used this support very well and now are ready to repay it back to America and the payment may be too dangerous to collect.
How about all those scum who dynamited Serb orthodox churches in Kosovo? They weren't doing it for religions reasons? You fail to realize you are dealing with a terrorist religion here. Go read the life of Muhammad, the first Islamic terrorist. He chopped off heads to terrorize. He had people assassinated. And the Koran commands all Muslims tyro copy his exemplary life.
DYNAMITED KOSOVO CHURCHES=JIHAD
At the end of the day all your tedious material is bullshit because the Muslims got hold of Kosovo. They achieved their objective. I could see you taking up the Muslim side if they had lost. But fact is they won. Serbia was bombed meaning your dreams were realized.
Your objective is to apologize for Islamic imperialism. Why a Christian from the West would do this is beyond me.
the ones not involved with the drugs and crime running of the Albanians get along fine with other non-criminals (Serbs, Maks and Albs). the problem solely exists between the law enforcers/military and the criminals, simple. you have all the others as pawns and caught/trapped. i feel bad for them.
It is hard to discern the differance between the evidence as it is manipulated by all interested parties. The winner is the one with the larger public forum/audience, that meaning the us, the US. As i have said all along, it does not matter what the truth is, what is done is done and whatever the foreign policy dictates, history shall be repeated.
Why don't you tell the Israelis, the American Isralei lobby, the Congress, the Chief Executive, the Evangelical Zionists, and -- the whole world -- that by your own rules Israli "irridentists" had their chance to get their land back, but that right expired in 577 A.D.?
At which point does a stolen property become legitimate possession of the one who stole it? If I start bringing my family as squatters in your back yard and eventually overpopulate your property, does your property become mine when you are pushed to the last room in your house?
You are applying civil justice to something that is neither civil no just. The Muslims recognize only one nation, as Izetbegovic argued -- Islam. If Izetbegovic's declaration is true, ti means whatever Muslims cooperate with the West and whom we support, they are doing it only for their benefit, lying in wait until they can strike the hand that feeds them.
OK, but [Izetvegovic] is Bosnian, he's dead, and he had nothing to do with the Albanian-Serb conflict in Kosovo
Muslims are allowed to lie in order to deceive infidels. If you are not a Muslim, you are doing the lying for them. Izetbegovic was a fundamentalist Muslim first and formost. Bieng a Muslim is above secualr states and nations. This is another example of your fraud -- telling people a diception and knowing very well that Muslims are one nation and not many.
"... In one of the thesis for an Islamic order today we have stated that it is a natural function of the Islamic order to gather all Muslims and Muslim communities throughout the world into one. Under present conditions, this desire means a struggle for creating a great Islamic federation from Morocco to Indonesia, from the tropical Africa to the Central Asia. ..."[Izetbegovic, Islamic Declaration, 1970 (1990), p. 27, 46]
It is not possible to reconcile, negotiate or believe a Muslim -- not because we don't want to, but because their faith forbids them to make friends with infidels lest they become like them.
That's why a discussion with your "objective" analyses of the Balkans, is pointless and a waste of time. I just want to make sure the ignorant readers don't fall for your historical reivsionism and dysinformation.
That's wrong. The most common factor was the lobby money and PR companies that the anti-Serb tribes in the Balkans poured into the America and the West to get the world on their side. Milosevic's refusal to incorporate economic reforms being dicted by the IMF also played a major role.
Its now largely forgotten, but the first significant U.S. military involvement in the Balkans was a U.S. infantry battalion sent to Macedonia as part of UNPROFOR and at the request of the President of Macedonia. Serb nationalists were calling Macedonia "South Serbia" and there was a dispute over the location of the Serbia-Macedonia border. As you well know, both sides were Orthodox; and so were the Greeks who had some interest in that situation as well.
Wrong again. Macedonia was able to split away from the rest of Yugoslavia because it negotiated a split and the Serbian minority wasn't being threatened like it was in Croatia, Bosnia and the Serbian province of Kosovo. The little skirmish with Slovenia and to a certain extent the war in Croatia wasn't clearly just a Serbian issue. Yugoslavia, to a certain extent, was just trying to prevent unlawful succession just like any other country would.
I was actually kind of excited when you first joined the Balkan conversations. You like to claim to be objective, but every post of yours does nothing more than twist and spin each issue in favor of anyone that's opposed to the Serbs. I see no objectivity at all. It's very dissapointing.
Hmmm... no I don't. But then again 10 years ago I was completely submerged in pre-production of the documentary "Yugoslavia: The Avoidable War" so it may have slipped past me.
I do remember that an Albanian guy that was sending tons of money to the KLA owned a tavern down the street from me was very pissed when he found out that a Serbian guy (not me) also owned a tavern on his same block. I never met the Albanian KLA tavern owner, but I had an American friend that bartended for him. She said he was a complete ass. His business bellied within two years.
That is false. The Serbs and the Croats are not the same tribe. They are all Slavs, of course, as much as Norwegians and Austrians are all "German."
The Serbs and the Croats were not divided by religion -- in fact religion (Roman Catholicism) was not an identifier of nationality until Maria Theresa's times. It was the language.
But, you will observe, don't Serbs and Croats speak the same language? Yes and no. But until 1850, they did neither speak nor write the same language. What Croats call "Croatian" is not either of the two Croatian indiginous languages -- the cakavian (pron. chakavian) and the kajkavian, of which the former is the only true Croatian tongue [kajkavian is a derivative of Slovenian and is encountered only in regions bordering with Slovenia].
While all Serbs speak shtokavian (or shtokavski), only a portion of people who identify themselves as Croats speak shtokavian (Serbian). Those Croats living predominantly in western Herzegovina, which was forced to accept Catholicism under Maria Theresa, typically have last names that sound Serbian -- Miloshevich being one of them, and their national instrument is gusle a one-string device originating in Montenegro (as do Miloshevichs). Interestingly, their dialect also contains sound specific for Montenegrin speech. Of course, the converts came from Orthodox ranks wo -- through equating Catholicism with Croatian national identity -- come to identify as such.
Likewise, in Slavonia, the shtokavski speaking "shoktsi" (sokci) come from a line of forced converts to RC. Their name comes from the old Serbian word for hand (shoka) which in the modern language means a clenched hand or fist (shaka). People could tell who were "shoktsi" by the way they crossed -- with the whole hand (shoka) instead of with the three fingers held together as one (the Orthodox manner).
Thus it are clear historical, linguistic, cultural (rleigious) and demographic dicatons that all shtokavski-speaking people in the Balkans were Serbs, just as it is clear from the decrees of Bosnian princes and kings that they were rulers of Serbs (and only Serbs, the only nation mentioned by name "Serblye"), while also in control of areas of the Dalmacia and Croatia.
Croatian documents from early Christianity were written in Old Church Slavonic for a long time, but secular documents were written strictly in cakavski -- a language that has a pleasant character and well suited for poetry, but is utterly underdeveloped for prose, and is close but unintelligible to shtokavski-speaking Serbs. Because of this, and because they were under Hungarian and Austrian rulers, Croatians used either Hungarian, German or Latin as the official written language for centuries. for example, at the beginning of the 19th century, the Croatian diet used exclusively Latin, and only German-language books could be bought in Zagreb, Croatia's capital then known under the name Agram).
In 1850, with the help of Austrian Court, and with clearly delineated political reasons having to do with weakining Russian influence in the Balkans, a naive and foolish Serb self-styled language reformer by the name of Vuk Stefanivich-Karadzhich, together with a Croatian representatives singed, without any authority or mandate, on behalf of their nations a Language Agreement which established shtokavian, the living spoken language of Serbs, as the linguistic norm for the common literally language of Serbs and Croats, written accoridng to the alphabetical rules pushed by Vuk and written either in Cyrillic or Roman alphabets.
Thus, Croats accepted Serbian as their linguistic standard and under the guise of "Illyrian" unity and pan-Yugoslav (South Slav) idealism called it "Croatian." This would be equivalent to saying that "American" is a language distinct from English, and that it is American, not English, for no reason other than Americans use it.
Just for the record.
You are right. And even the Islamofacists even play this critisizing Russian neo-Nazis who haven't determined their own racial background.
Great post - thanks.
Ditto. But I did post a wonderful story once, and I will ping you to it later, about the Greeks having stood in front of churches in Kosovo to protect them, even having been burned and injured while doing so.
God Bless your people!
Exactly what happened and will happen again, is happening again, all over Europe. As James George Jatras pointed out way back in 1998.
Col Jatras and his wife Stella are real experts for the Balkans, but unfortunately they don't find fault with the Serbs as much as it is politically correct, which is why you won't find them interviewd on Fox and Retards.
The demonization was very well-done. How sad that people were so gullible. Perhaps I would have been also without the church.
Good posts. Mark is a humanitarian do gooder fool. I never support Islam in it's varies disputes and wars. Five years ago I was stupid and would not have made such a blanket statement.
However.... despite being Jewish (and considered neo con by some) I never supported Clinton/NATO war on Serbia. I wasn't that stupid. The Serbs did commit some atrocities. Still doesn't mean I would support the eternal pestilence of mankind, the army of Allah.
It's post #116+ and I want to thank no one in particular for not (((pinging))) me...
Recent statement by the departing Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge that a profile of a terrorist must be described in a different way is an encouraging sign. Ridge said that al-Qaeda is actively recruiting terrorists among the white race: Bosnians, Chechens and among the Muslims integrated in the Western society, in particular, women. The new profile of a terrorist - the white al-Qaeda - removes another constraint in the battle against the islamic terrorism that has become a world struggle.
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That thing about Muhammadan males in America over 13: just make it ALL of them...
Annan hates christians. The christians in the Sudan, the farmers and starving Zimbabweans, the boers in rural South Africa can all go eat worms.
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