Posted on 09/07/2006 2:50:04 AM PDT by kronos77
"The main goal of the symposium is to shed light on how Islam spread in these territories based on undisputed historic facts," professor Morina told IOL.
PRISHTINA — The Islamic Community of Kosova (ICK) and the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Prishtina (FIS) will co-organize on September 16-17 an international symposium celebrating 600 years of Islam among Albanians.
"The main goal of the symposium is to shed light on how Islam spread in these territories based on undisputed historic facts," professor Qemajl Morina, one of the organizers, told IslamOnline.net.
Debates about this issue and the role of Islam among Albanians have never been addressed independently but were always colored with negative and ideological considerations.
Organizers hope the symposium will show the trube image of islam and its role among Albanians, which have hitherto been misconcepted.
Morina said it will also address the challanges facing Muslims in this part of the world. ...
Albanians are an ethnic group generally associated with Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro.
About half of today's Albanians live in the Republic of Albania, with the second largest group living in Kosovo, which has been a UN protectorate since a 1999 NATO bombing campaign forced President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his troops.
Albanians, who make up about 90 percent of Kosovo's population of around two million people, seek full independence.
Islamic Message
"This symposium is being held at the very delicate moment whereby the relationship between East and West is getting tense," said professor Morina.
He added that Albanian Muslims have the duty to "carry the Islamic message decently to our nation and also to other neighboring countries."
"This should be the key message of this symposium which we believe will be carried out successfully."
Professor Morina said that though focussing on Islam
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By now, most of you know that Im Serbian guy that preches understending anog Americans and Serbs, that I in my homeland, Serbia preac that Americans and Clintons are two different thing. Well, Clintons are thing, anyway, and that Serbs should not hate Americans due to the fact that USA led by Clintons destroyed Serbia in their support to Islamofascism of Albanians.
This article is in purest form explenation of who were and still are you fighting for on kosovo- The Albanians, Islamofascistic bastards. So, theese are the guys that you have ben killing Christians serbs for.
And again, I blame it on Clintons, their idiotic policy that led into murder of 3,000 americans on 9/11, and I dont blame Americans, not after 9/11
Hoppy, where are you?
Thanks Kronos. Information like this is key to understanding.
Hoppy is busy praying at the mosque
I belive that he awaits new orders from his master(s).
Master(s) is (are) voice(s) in his head that keep saying allah akbar...
Wesetern medicine calls it ilness...
So, how much of the spread of Islam was through voluntary association, and how much of it was "convert or die?"
The graves will tell...
600 years of Islamic slavery, WOO-HOO!!
/sarc
What's to celebrate?
Wrong.
Albanians and Bosnians EMBRACED Islam, they were upper class, masters to the Serbs, bulgarians, Macedonians and eaqual to turkish occupators. They were masters of Christian slaves.
They are not enslaved by islam and Alqaeda, they ARE Islam and Alquaeda.
"He added that Albanian Muslims have the duty to "carry the Islamic message decently to our nation and also to other neighboring countries."
In Greece we know just how to welcome them and their message.
Where is Slobodan now that he is needed.
......Clinton once again backed the wrong horse.
What??? Celebrate poverty, social chaos and alienation from the rest of the world?
We even thought Osama bin Laden needed help. And how do these Islamic regimes that we helped look at us? As infidels and targets.
They don't even present in the language of the country!!! But it would appear that we must have a lot of Arabic speaker in Kosovo!
Hopefully Serbian Muslims will figure out what's in store for them.
... Unfortunately, as the celebration was deemed un-Islamic, the participants were beheaded.
POST-Clinton. Far from so PRE-Clinton's ethnic cleansing.
Clinton murdered Christians who were just trying to get a handle on muslim terrorism in the most evil and stupid and arrogant and meaningless war the west has ever fought.
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