Alarm at among U.N. and EU staff in Kosovo at the creeping influence of Wahabi Islam

UPI ^ | 1/1/2003 11:35 AM | From the International Desk

[Destro]

UPI hears ...

From the International Desk
Published 1/1/2003 11:35 AM

Insider notes from United Press International for Jan. 1 …

Alarm is mounting among U.N. and EU staff in Kosovo at the creeping influence of the puritanical sect of Wahabi Islam, spread across Kosovo's predominantly Muslim population of 2.7 million with large helpings of financial aid from Saudi Arabia. They count 98 primary and secondary schools now built, funded and staffed by the Islamic proselytizers, mostly in rural areas where there are few other schools available, along with 24 mosques and 14 orphanages. Ironically, it was the Albanian-born Muhammad Ali who in the early 19th century as ruler of Egypt stopped the spread of Wahabism. Now the Wahabis are back and expanding fast in his homeland -- much to the outrage of Rexhep Boja, mufti of Kosovo, who argues "Albanians have been Muslims for more than 500 years and don't need outsiders to tell them the prosper way to practice Islam."

[Destro]

Must be why all those Christian Churches go boom and all those Christian and moderate Muslims flee into Serbia in terror. Good job NATO.

[Destro]

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[End Times Sentinel]

Why, certainly you can't be suggesting that X42 got us in on the wrong side?  We did what our enlightened betters, the euros, suggested, didn't we?

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[RightWhale]

"Albanians have been Muslims for more than 500 years and don't need outsiders to tell them the prosper way to practice Islam."

These fundies will bring death and destruction on themselves and their peaceful neighbors if they keep it up. Eventually they will inspire a Reformation movement, but only after enough have tired of fire and blood.

[expatpat]

Clinton and his idiot pals who backed the Albanians against the Serbs in Kosovo are finally coming to realize that perhaps they were on the wrong side. Will they ever admit it?

[crypt2k]

Unbeknownst to UPI, people in the know here at
Free Republic were predicting this over 5 years ago.

[Destro]

HEH!

[RightWhale]

We did what our enlightened betters, the euros, suggested, didn't we?

Seems some Euros are still fighting the Byzantines.

[Jacob Kell]

I thought that ol's Steven Schwartz has stated that Kosovo Albanians didn't want anything to do with Wahhabism.

With friends like the Saudis, we sure as hell don't need any enemies.

Wuck the Fahhabis and Fahhabism, and ol' Muhammad AlFahhab, that camel-humping motherf*****.

[Cicero]

There were a load of Arab extremists in Bosnia even before clinton attacked Yugoslavia and took over Kosovo. Did they just notice that the Albanians are church-burning Muslims?

[Destro]

Apparently UPI just heard it from the UN and EU staff that somehow just realized it.

[Destro]

The Kosovo misadventure was a mutual third wayist and neo con gang bang cluster fug back then.

[joesnuffy]

Yeah a person could go blind on a steady diet of Wahabi...person should at least spend a few weeks getting into Sunni for a change of pace...
Wahabi is ok but its been blown way out of proportion...
Everybody knows "Sunnis Make Better Bombers"

[Michael81Dus]

Just to add:
my comrades (having served in the Kosovo) told me that they sometimes didn´t understand why NATO protected the Muslims when those Muslims blast the Christian churches of the Serbs and kill old Serbian women at night because they don´t want to leave their home...

maybe we were on the wrong side, ok, but I suppose that there was no right or wrong side in that damned conflict!

Seeing Serbs slaughtering the Muslims isn´t better anyway.

[Uncle Miltie]

"They count 98 primary and secondary schools now built, funded and staffed by the Islamic proselytizers, mostly in rural areas where there are few other schools available"

Memo to Talib Murray: They ain't teachin' peace and brotherhood...

[EaglesUpForever]

We did what our enlightened betters, the euros, suggested, didn't we?

The Clinton legacy is 9/11.

[wretchard]

Wahabism has become the dominant export "brand" of Islam because of its large advertising budget and sales staff. The headquarters of this multinational cult is in Saudi Arabia. There will never be a solution to the problem of Islamic terrorism while this toxic "brand" continues to exist.

The Wahabi brand has gained adherents at the expense of other Islamic traditions. Any effective strategy to bring down the House of Saud must involve setting the Wahabists against their competitors, by forging alliances with the marketers of other Islamic brands. It must also strike at the strategic root of Wahabist power: oil. Any effort to develop major alternatives to Persian Gulf oil, such as the Caspian basin; or to bring frozen Persian Gulf fields into production (such as those in Iraq, and to some extent, Iran) will weaken the Wahabists.

There are two major internal threats to the Wahabi brand domination of Islam. The first is secular Islam, represented by Turkey, and even Iraq, were this to be shorn of its despotism. The second is the burgeoning post-Ayatollah wave sweeping Iran. The Persians and Turks have historically been the class acts of Islam. When Osama speaks of the "Golden Age" of Islam, he's referring to the glories of the Persians and the Turks. The Sauds were, until recently, the hillbillies of the Muslim world. Shorn of their oil power, they wouldn't be fit to unlace the shoes of the Persians and the Turks.

Let's see whether President Bush is pursuing the tactic of smoking the Wahabists out by propping up their natural enemies.

[Freee-dame]

Will they ever admit it?

Not only will they never admit it, they'll find a way to blame either Bush 41 or Bush 43.

[logan five]

that'right....

that is....it's right before our eyes...


BODANSKY's book: The High Cost of Peace...seems to tell it like it is.......and includes this misstep...


l5

[branicap]

Michael,Serbs were not slaughtering Muslims in Kosovo,OK?Do not carry on with propaganda from Allied Farce,no more,please!It is to much,really.

The number of "slaughtered Albanians" is as true as the number of Yugoslav armor destroyed by Wesley Clark!