Posted on 03/10/2008 1:06:14 PM PDT by Bokababe
....(Albanian) Women used to be relegated to restrictive lives at home, guarded behind the high-walled compounds that traditionally housed extended ethnic Albanian families, or clans. It wasn't freedom, but it was out of the reach of outside exploitation. Traffickers brought women from elsewhere, such as Moldova and Romania, initially to be shuttled to Italy or other parts of Europe and, after the war, to remain in Kosovo to "service" a growing international population.....
...After a brutal crackdown by Slobodan Milosevic in 1999, Kosovo came under the stewardship of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations. During the years since, Kosovo evolved from a transit point into both a source of and destination for trafficked women. Often, Kosovo officials and former guerrilla commanders were complicit in the lucrative trade -- and the resident international community, including peacekeepers and civilian consultants, its market.....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
And that's not "feminist clap-trap".
I think this article is designed to engender sympathy for the Mousselmanithas. If so, it didn’t work with me.
Sex trafficking seems to go on wherever the UN or others set up a big aid or peacekeeping operation. The troops in the Congo were notorious too.
Of course, trafficking in whores and babies is up ... it's because stolen cars and stolen car parts are down. There's a glut of heroin out there, so prices of that commodity are low. Income from Extortion and Kidnapping are holding up, but just barely. When you run an international business like Albania, Inc., Babe, you have to change your marketing to suit the market, Duh-uh!
But I do admire the ethnically neutral reporting ... at first glance the reporter might have been discussing a renegade group of Danish Girl Guides. Then it turns out they are Albanians ... but not really. They are Albanian Gypsies, and "real" Albanians are mixed up in it, too.
They are talking about an area of Serbia, adjacent to Bosnia, which is nearly 1/5 Muslim.
It you look closely, you will see that the article was in the LA Times. Los Angeles is in the United States.
With your attempt to deflect the thrust of the article, one has to wonder if you support the trafficking or are yourself involved in the trade!
If you are saying that Muslim women aren't treated worse everywhere in the world than are Christian women, then you are a complete moron.
Even in this article that tried to engender sympathy for Albanian women, their "BEST case scenario" was that Albanian women were "relegated to restrictive lives at home, guarded behind the high-walled compounds that traditionally housed extended ethnic Albanian families, or clans." Worst case scenario was that they were sold to sex slavers by their own families. . Serbia women have never lived like that -- except when the Turks were around and they needed protection. The Turks been gone for over 100 years.
Do a quick search:
You'll find that virtually the "Serbia" articles refer to Kosovo, and/or Serbia (along with Macedonia, Croatia, etc) only as transit routes.
You're the "propagandist" on this issue. The Albanian Mafia has been running sex slaves, illegal drugs and illegal arms out of Kosovo for a long time, but since NATO showed up, it has gotten much worse.
Wow, you look so smart when you use such big words! LOL!
Back so soon, Hoplite?
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