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How Kosovo Created its Own Liberal Islam
Standpoint ^ | July 2008 | MICHAEL J. TOTTEN

Posted on 06/29/2008 5:50:12 AM PDT by forkinsocket

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To: getoffmylawn
What about clowns like FormerLib and Joan?

Listen, as long as these types keep posting bull about Croatia and Croatians, I'm gonna call them on their propaganda.

As for Kosovo, you know full well that I side with the Serbs on the matter, but the notion being spread by some that Kosovo is an Islamist jihadi state is patently ridiculous, as you well know. Albanians aren't much for Islam (or Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy) with a few minor exceptions that prove the point. You guys have truth on your side....there's no need to engage false propaganda to prove your point.

61 posted on 06/30/2008 1:25:44 PM PDT by Diocletian
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"It's easy for you to convince people that Albanians are scum, they have a bad reputation, but when say the exact same things about the Christian Croats, you give away your game. You hate Catholics just as much as you hate Albanians."

For God sake, TGJ, is that really what you think? That "Serbs hate all Catholics" or "hate Croats because they are Catholic"? That's absolutely crazy! Half my family are married to Catholics and my stepchildren (who I dearly love) and step grandchildren are all Catholics!

The problem between Serbs & Croats is that during WWII, Croats & Muslims under the Ustashi banner and backed by Nazi Germany, went on an evil killing spree against the Serbs, Gypsies and Jews in Croatia and Bosnia. The depravity of some of these murders was so bad, it even shocked the Germans. The Croat Ustashi plan for Serbs was to "kill one third, (forcibly) convert one third to Catholicism and expel one third", and unfortunately much of the Croat Catholic clergy joined in on this "forcible conversion" plan -- and they significantly succeeded, until Nazi Germany lost. But that action was localized to Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo (the former Yugoslavia) -- not "all Catholics against all Orthodox in the world".

But when the war started in Croatia in the 1990's, one of the first things that happened was that Croats started using the same WWII symbols that had sent hundreds of thousands of Serbs to their death less than fifty years before, and it rightfully scared the crap out of the Serb civilians. Things got much uglier from there.

Unfortunately most of those old WWII Ustashi got away and never faced justice. One of the last Nazis left that even the Simon Weisenthal Institute is trying to extradite as part of "Operatio Last Chance" is a Croat Ustase named Milivoj Asner

The classic Ustase apologetic for anyone who calls them on these horrible crimes is to label their detractors "communists" to take away from the fact that they are literal fascists..

So when I referred to "your Nazi apologist friends" -- I meant that literally.

62 posted on 06/30/2008 1:31:04 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe

Russia uses the same Soviet communist symbols today as when they killed hundreds of millions of people in the last century. They even call the removal of such communist symbols by ex-Soviet nations “blasphemy.” You don’t seem too bothered by that though, you are too busy counting on the anti-American support of your Soviet apologist friends in the Kremlin.


63 posted on 06/30/2008 1:41:13 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Tailgunner, don't let Bokababe fool you. The symbols used aren't "nazi" since they predate the Nazis by hundreds of years. They were symbols banned the Communists but returned when democracy arrived.

When it comes to the topic of Croatia specifically, never, ever trust Bokababe for instance. She's been corrected time and time again with facts, only to conveniently forget them the next time so that she can repeat falsehoods.

64 posted on 06/30/2008 1:46:17 PM PDT by Diocletian
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To: Diocletian; Tailgunner Joe
"When it comes to the topic of Croatia specifically, never, ever trust Bokababe for instance.."

The admitted grandson of an Ustase speaks!

Dio is right --don't trust me -- just put the words "Ustase" or "Jasenovac" into any search agent and see what you come up with. Better yet, try "Milivoj Asner" because he has been in the press lately

If you want to defend that literal Nazi ideology just because they are "Catholic, too", then at least you will know what you are doing.

65 posted on 06/30/2008 1:57:42 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Nope -— you are the supporting fascism. HOW? You do that every time you support traditional eternal enemies of the west aka Islam and islamic entities and other totalitarian/utopian ideologies -— over our allies aka proven heroic peoples defending the west and Judaeo - Christian principles aka Christian fighters in Europe who have fought islam for 1300 years. Those who look beyond ethnicity to values, not only ethnicity like the Albanians who went over to the dark side years ago.

Regarding Mr Laden’s fate and how his fate intertwines with our foreign policy failures we shall see. Caretaker Bush has nothing to do with any of that. He was unable, unwilling, and too weak to reform the institutions (State, CIA, UN etc) he claimed he would. Read Bolton's stuff on all that.

66 posted on 06/30/2008 2:09:09 PM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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To: eleni121

You are the one who supports Russia, the self-declared enemy of Western Civilization and best friend ever of Islam. You support anti-Christian Russian-enabled Iranian nuclear islamic jihad.


67 posted on 06/30/2008 2:13:06 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Russia uses the same Soviet communist symbols ...

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Bla bla bla... Stop using the word Russia/Russian to describe international Bolshevism, an ideology that devastated the Russian people.

Beginning with the Czar and his family the Bolsheviks slaughtering their way up and down and all across Russia butchering millions of people of all ethnicities who refused to succumb to Communism, the final disease given birth by the Enlightenment.

If you find it difficult to understand these simple facts do not desecrate the memories of the victims by claiming that the victims killed themselves!

68 posted on 06/30/2008 2:19:05 PM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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To: Bokababe
Neither I nor Tailgunner are defending the Ustashe. The desire for Croatian independence is not the same as Ustashism.

Hopefully this helps, but I doubt it.

69 posted on 06/30/2008 2:22:45 PM PDT by Diocletian
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To: Diocletian
Actually, I don't think anyone has gotten right on this thread yet. The truth is - The Albanians are WORSE than Islamic fundie nut jobs. If their culture were to somehow magically mature then MAYBE they'd become as civilized as the Islamic jihadis.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't believe the jihadis would be so connected to forced prostitution, the heroine trade or even this horrible accusation against the Albanians of harvesting the organs of young Serbians from Kosovo. I'm not sure the organ harvesting accusations are true, but I wouldn't put it past the Albanians for one second. I'd be more skeptical of your average everyday jihadi group.

The religion of the Albanians is "Albanian". I'd much rather deal with Muslims.

70 posted on 06/30/2008 2:23:52 PM PDT by getoffmylawn ("Tailgunner" is American slang for a homosexual male.)
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To: getoffmylawn

You are absolutely right.


71 posted on 06/30/2008 2:25:38 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: getoffmylawn

Hey, I’m the last guy you’ll have to explain Albanian criminality to on FR. I can’t agree with you more on that subject.


72 posted on 06/30/2008 2:25:52 PM PDT by Diocletian
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To: eleni121
I will stop condemning Russia's continued use of unholy communist symbols when they stop using them.

As long as Russia is ruled by unrepentant Chekists who are proud of their loyalty to the Soviet Union and lament its collapse, I will continue to denounce the anti-Christian anti-American evil which emanates from Moscow.

73 posted on 06/30/2008 2:30:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: All
Well here we have another typical Balkan thread! Sweetness and light and rigorous logic again assails FR. If the original Diocletian and the other later Roman Emperors knew when they devised the border between the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, which eventually became the line between Croatia and Serbia that it would still be causing wars 1700 years later, perhaps they would have drawn a North South division instead!

Have Fun!

74 posted on 06/30/2008 2:31:24 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Obama "King of Kings and Lord of Lords")
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To: Diocletian
"Neither I nor Tailgunner are defending the Ustashe. The desire for Croatian independence is not the same as Ustashism."

Yeah you are, Dio. Because I've asaid repeatedly, that "I had no problem with Croat independence", just the manner in which it was brought about.

Yet, you defend Tudjman's statement about "thanking God his wife was neither a Serb, nor a Jew" with the most bizarre apologetic I have ever heard. You go on about the WWII Cetniks as though "THEY were fascists" and the Ustashi weren't so bad. You defend Marko Perkovic when even Croat President Mesic said that his Zagreb concert was bad for Croatia, and he has been repeatedly banned in country after country.

But what really pisses me off is that on one hand you can say "Kosovo is Serbia" and on the other hand you jump into every Kosovo post and defend Albanians (or is it just trash Serbs?).

If "Croatia" were still being threatened or still vying for its independence, I could understand it. But it's not. Croatia is in the loving arms of its EU German protectors, and yet it still can't get over the "hate the Serbs" mentality. Makes me think that you guys are warming up for another round of "cleaning" Croatia completely of all minorities, except your Muslim friends as "honorary Croats" again.

75 posted on 06/30/2008 2:45:59 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Conservative like me are used to being called nazis by America-hating communist vermin like you.

1. You are not conservative.
2. No one hates America here... Well, aside the other half of America that voted commies into Senate...

Just to explain something.
US have done more self-iinflicted damage than Soviets, Russians, Chicoms or Muslims can within next 200 years.

United States are occupied, and enslaved by very people like you are.
People that love money more than their own country, People that live in the past, expecting Soviet tanks on the streets of DC, while Muslims are killing you each day. Conservative stands for - Loyalty to Christ - Loyalty to nation - Loyalty for freedom and liberty for ALL people like you, not AMERICANS, but people like YOU - Ruined Christianity in MY country, and even more are killing the Christ all over the world in the name of "open society" G. Soros - Destroying MY OWN and American nation by fals conservativism, by masked communism and open support to homosexual ism and degenerative movements across antire Eastern Europe - Enslaving Christians and non-muslims an making US FRE PEOPLE slaves to Islamofascist buddies of NWO. YOU MY FRIEND are more dangerous than Osama, cause you are used to be Christian, and now have allied yourself to lowest of the lowest Islamic bastards. AMERICA do not need enemies, when it have people like you.

76 posted on 06/30/2008 2:49:08 PM PDT by kronos77 (Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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To: Santino Sonny Corleone; Bokababe; getoffmylawn
"Since Jun 28, 2008"

You remind of someone who was banned before...

Albanian apologists abound.

77 posted on 06/30/2008 2:49:48 PM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: getoffmylawn
"Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't believe the jihadis would be so connected to forced prostitution, the heroine trade or even this horrible accusation against the Albanians of harvesting the organs of young Serbians from Kosovo."

Actually, I think the Albanians just show the bastardized Muslim version of "unity in diversity":

1. ME Muslims all hate women and treat them like crap, so the Albanians selling women & children into prostitution doesn't faze them

2. The heroin connection runs from the poppies of Afghanistan through the Kosovo conduit and beyond to Western Europe so that all Muslims profit.

3. The body parts sale of kuffir proves the Albanians as Muslim brothers under the skin.

4. The Albanians have fooled America into thinking that they are friends by appealing the US politicians' vanity, meanwhile offering a people trafficking conduit to slip any jihadists they want from the ME and get them into Western Europe.

5. The Albanians are profiting from "Western sins", showing the West for the "evil dogs" we in the West are supposed to be.

78 posted on 06/30/2008 3:01:05 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: forkinsocket

Bump for later comment.


79 posted on 06/30/2008 3:01:19 PM PDT by F-117A (Mr. Bush, Condi, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: Bokababe
Yeah you are, Dio. Because I've asaid repeatedly, that "I had no problem with Croat independence", just the manner in which it was brought about.

Considering that independent Croatia was brought about as the inheritor of the SR Croatia legally and not NDH, I question your statement. Considering that the leadership of the drive for Croatian independence were all former Partisans (those that were old enough) and none of them were Ustashi, again your statement is shown to be quite silly.

Yet, you defend Tudjman's statement about "thanking God his wife was neither a Serb, nor a Jew" with the most bizarre apologetic I have ever heard.

Because that's the context in which that comment was made. Have you bothered to research that speech? If you had, you'd realize why he made that comment.

Secondly, Tudjman was a Partisan who fought the Ustashi.

You go on about the WWII Cetniks as though "THEY were fascists" and the Ustashi weren't so bad.

The Serbian Fascists were led by Dmitrije Ljotic and his Zbor party in Belgrade. The Serbian Chetnik leader of Dalmatia, Pop Momcilo Djujic, was a member of his party. He was rescued by the Nazis and was granted exile in the USA where he died in 1999. I never said all Chetniks were Fascists since most weren't...they were authoritarian royalists for the most part.

You defend Marko Perkovic when even Croat President Mesic said that his Zagreb concert was bad for Croatia, and he has been repeatedly banned in country after country.

What's wrong with defending Thompson? What's wrong with freedom of speech? Not in one song does Thompson glorify the Ustashe nor does he mention Jews nor anything. I've asked you to specifically point out in which of his songs he does. You have been unable to do so at present.

But what really pisses me off is that on one hand you can say "Kosovo is Serbia" and on the other hand you jump into every Kosovo post and defend Albanians (or is it just trash Serbs?).

It's not about defending Albanians, but rather about defending the truth. You Serbs don't need to lie since the truth is on your side when it comes to Kosovo. Yet every day I read absolute crap about how Kosovo is an "Islamic Jihadist state" when nothing could be further from the truth. Even your fellow Serb getoffmylawn knows this to be the case.

If "Croatia" were still being threatened or still vying for its independence, I could understand it. But it's not. Croatia is in the loving arms of its EU German protectors, and yet it still can't get over the "hate the Serbs" mentality. Makes me think that you guys are warming up for another round of "cleaning" Croatia completely of all minorities, except your Muslim friends as "honorary Croats" again.

I suggest you seek help for your paranoia. Serbs in Croatia are doing quite well, to the point where the v-p is a Serb. They are fully integrated and reject the false policies of the Knin separatists who were betrayed by their fellow Serbs in Belgrade.

80 posted on 06/30/2008 3:05:13 PM PDT by Diocletian
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