Kosovo in flames as Albanians renew war on Serbs

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 18/03/2004) | Harry de Quetteville

[Homer1]

how did the Christians in Kosovo became minority?

They were ethnically cleansed

[Da Mav]

Where are all the "Quagmire" articles? Oh, wait, the Dems got us into this one so people killing each other 5 years later is not a quagmire -- people killing each other 12 months later in Iraq is a quagmire.

[Makedonski]

why did they let them selves be ethnically cleansed?

Didn't they defend them selves against the agressors?

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

how did the Christians in Kosovo became minority?

Ethnic cleansing by Herr Clinton.

[Makedonski]

I like programming :)))

while (freespeech)

{
switch (terrorism)
{
case 911:
Islamic/Muslim terrorists are bad (2001)

case Kosovo:
Clinton legacy excuse, current administration has
nothing to do with it. US does not support
Muslim terrorists. (1999 - 2004)

case Macedonia:
Bend over Macedonia change constitution to please
Albanian Muslim terrorists (2001)
}

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Your ability to repost pictures of ugly people don't make your arguments any stronger, corrie.

[Incorrigible]

LOL

[NicknamedBob]

Welcome to Free Republic ... Tomorrow.

You have been busy.
Can you send me the schematics for your time machine?

[Makedonski]

how did Albanian Muslims terrorists invaded Macedonia (next to Kosovo) in 2001 and forced the country to change its constitution to accomodate their demands?

Who had an embargo on weapons on Macedonia preventing its defence in 2001 during the terrorist assault?

Who issued threats to the Macedonian Minister of Interior in his office about the Ministers actions against the Albanian Muslim terrorists?

[Frank_2001]

But I thought Islam meant peace!/sarcasm off

[Future Useless Eater]

>>and riot police under French command went to the scene, firing rubber bullets and teargas to disperse the crowds.

Well THERE's the problem... FRENCH COMMAND!!

I'd say the Serbs can thank the Spaniards and French for
embolding the islam-o-terrorists worldwide.

[Jomini]

Paging Mr Fusion:

Please call your office. Your bid has been accepted...

(Wish I knew how to post that photo from the Albania Briefings website. They will probably give you another medal for that one Sir...)

Westerby

[Hoplite]

Westerby all you can be somewhere else, Greg.

You're the class clown here - don't you get it?

[aquila48]

Those (the Serbs) who have remained now represent only about 10 per cent of Kosovo's two million population, and they appeared to have come under well-organised attack yesterday.

What a successful operation that Clinton war - sure stopped ethnic cleansing!!

[Cronos]

Once again I repeat... Islam is a scourge

from www.cia.gov

Religions:

Muslim 70%, Albanian Orthodox 20%, Roman Catholic 10% note: all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious observances prohibited; in November 1990, Albania began allowing private religious practice

Things aren't quite that cut and dried. Most Albanians are atheists and radically so. This is more an ethnic clash with the Albanians being the descendents of the Illurian tribes who were the original occuapants of the land. The only slamic radicals there and in Bosnia are imports sponsored by Saudi A or Iran.

[Cronos]

The Ottoman Turks divided the Albanian-inhabited lands among a number of districts, or vilayets. The Ottoman authorities did not initially stress conversion to Islam. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, however, economic pressures and coercion produced the conversion of about two-thirds of the empire's Albanians.

The Ottoman Turks first focused their conversion campaigns on the Roman Catholic Albanians of the north and then on the Orthodox population of the south. For example, the authorities increased taxes, especially poll taxes, to make conversion economically attractive. During and after a Christian counteroffensive against the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1690, when Albanian Catholics revolted against their Muslim overlords, the Ottoman pasha of Pec, a town in the south of present-day Yugoslavia, retaliated by forcing entire Albanian villages to accept Islam. Albanian beys then moved from the northern mountains to the fertile lands of Kosovo, which had been abandoned by thousands of Orthodox Serbs fearing reprisals for their collaboration with the Christian forces.

Most of the conversion's to Islam took place in the lowlands of the Shkumbin River valley, where the Ottoman Turks could easily apply pressure because of the area's accessibility. Many Albanians, however, converted in name only and secretly continued to practice Christianity. Often one branch of a family became Muslim while another remained Christian, and many times these families celebrated their respective religious holidays together

[Cronos]

Imagine my surpise. Mo-slimes killing people. Who woulda thunk it?

This is NOT a religious clash, it's an ethnic clash -- the Slavic serbs and the Illurian Albanians.

[Cronos]

Sounds like it's time for the U.S. to bomb more Christian Serbs. Where's Albright when you need her?

The Albanians are 30% Christian.

[Cronos]

How did this defenseless minority that is being brutally attacked and murdered became a defenseless minority?

BEcause Slobo's goons (and I won't insult the Serbs by considering that anything but a small minority supported Slobo's genocide) decided to kick out the ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and threw tanks and heavy artillery against a defenseless people, propelling a mass exodus into Albania.

[danamco]

Where are all the "Quagmire" articles? Oh, wait, the Dems got us into this one so people killing each other 5 years later is not a quagmire -- people killing each other 12 months later in Iraq is a quagmire.


Don't worry! Kerry Heinz will fix this problem!!