Jesse you self advertising d..k. It was in Albania that practicing religion was abolished not in Kosovo. You seem like do not know much about the place so please be quiet and keep your seat on the back of the room. You still will get the help you from Serdja Trafkovic

Kosovo is Serbia!

"You're a liar in almost everything you say in this article." Unfortunately, you failed to point out any "lies" in his article. Only once again showing that you, like most Albanophobes, are not being objective when it comes to the issue of Kosovo. "Not sure what is driving you to write such drivel or if you are seriously this misguided." Does the fact that unlike you, Totten refuses to see this as an issue of those "Brave-Civilized-Western-Godly-Christian-Serbs" vs. "Bloodthirsty-Genocidal-Islamofascist-Nazi-Albanians"(The way most Albanophobes want to see it) makes him "misguided"? Apparently, if we are to believe the Albanophobes, the answer is "yes". "I was in Kosovo only last summer and saw it from a very different light." So according to the logic of the Albanophobes, if someone visits Kosovo/Albania, and does not return with the impression that Albanians are a race of Islamofascist barbarians whose very existence is a mortal threat not only to Serbia, but to ALL of Western Civilization, one must be "misguided". *sigh* "The only reason they act like such liberal Muslims is because the generation living in Kosovo grew up under a communist regime that didn't allow any form of religious fundamentalism, they didn't allow them to even practice Islam openly so they forgot about their religious past" True. Not to mention the fact that Albanians for the most part put their national identity first before any religious identity. As 19th century Albanian poet once wrote in his poem: "Awaken, Albania, wake from your slumber, Let us all, as brothers, swear a common oath And not look to church or mosque, The faith of the Albanian is Albanianism!" "now that the door is open once again and the Wahabis have far more influence in the society than you give them credit for, in a single generation or two they will be just as radical as any other Muslim country." One can hardly predict how things will be next year, nevermind in a "generation or two". Unfortunately, the Wahhabis are trying to gain influence EVERYWHERE, but fortunately, as I pointed out in my previous post here a point made by fellow anti-Jihadist Patrick Poole, ""radical Islamists have no more taken over Kosova than they have Kansas City." "What happened after only a few generations in Iran under the Shaw," The Wahhabis had NOTHING to do with the radicalization of the Iranian population that brought the 1979 Revolution. You of course, neglect to mention that now after a generation under Islamic rule more and more people become hostile to the Islamic regime of Iran, as well as that the vast majority of Iranian exiles hate it with passion. "what happened in only a few generations in Turkey after Ataturk...." Turkey, last time I checked, despite a creeping worrisome Islamization, is still an electoral SECULAR democracy. For anyone interested, should read the following blog, which debunks much of the misinformation about Albanians perpetrated by Serbian propagandists and their sympathizers: http://albanianrealitycheck.blogspot.com/

You're a liar in almost everything you say in this article. Not sure what is driving you to write such drivel or if you are seriously this misguided. I was in Kosovo only last summer and saw it from a very different light. The only reason they act like such liberal Muslims is because the generation living in Kosovo grew up under a communist regime that didn't allow any form of religious fundamentalism, they didn't allow them to even practice Islam openly so they forgot about their religious past, now that the door is open once again and the Wahabis have far more influence in the society than you give them credit for, in a single generation or two they will be just as radical as any other Muslim country. What happened after only a few generations in Iran under the Shaw, what happened in only a few generations in Turkey after Ataturk.... See my experiences here: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9A68C6F6-8A08-453E-B...

"Why don't you mention that the Saudis are opening up Mosques across the country" Yes, they are, but they are also opening Mosques in London, New York, and pretty much everywhere they can afford. As fellow anti-Jihadist Patrick Poole pointed out, "radical Islamists have no more taken over Kosova than they have Kansas City.". So what is your point, ultimately? Are you implying that because Saudis are building Mosques in Kosovo, Albanians are therefore a race of Islamofascist Barbarians? "4 of the Dix Hills military terror plotters came from Kosovo?" Once again, this says NOTHING about Albanians as a group. As another fellow anti-Jihadist Ray Robison pointed out, "The reasons why three Albanian men from Jersey became jihadists have nothing to do with Kosovo or Albania and everything to do with Islamic extremism". Yes, it is about Islam's fanatical nature, but it says nothing about Albanians as a people. "Kosovo will be just like all the other Islamic states." It might, but it's current direction is towards the west, and not the dark ages of Islam. The presence of Islamic fundamentalists among Albanians is indeed worrisome, and they are actually a bigger threat to the Albanian nation, culture and heritate than all the intellectually dishonest Serbian propagandists and their sympathizers(Yes, you too, mr. Anonymous) combined, and should not be taken lightly, but to compare Kosovo with places like Pakistan is a major overstatement. "Non-Muslims will be persecuted there, no matter what kind of spin you want to put on the country." Nevermind the fact that today most Albanians are ATHEISTS, Albanian Muslim since the Ottoman Turks brought Islam to Kosovo never persecuted their Christian compatriots. Albanians for the most part are Albanian first before they independence of Kosovo was universally supported by ALL Albanians regardless of creed. "'Moderate' Islam is not coming to the rescue." Yes, the threat of Islamic fundamentalism is universal, and there is no such thing is as "moderate Islam", only a difference of degree of adherence, but the Albanian population is largely secular and far from being Islamic, so your point is senseless in this regard.

...Albanian atheism is.

Why don't you mention that the Saudis are opening up Mosques across the country or that 4 of the Dix Hills military terror plotters came from Kosovo? Kosovo will be just like all the other Islamic states. Non-Muslims will be persecuted there, no matter what kind of spin you want to put on the country. "Moderate" Islam is not coming to the rescue.

Everyone should read this article, it might explain a lot http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CEEDA1E3AE633A25752C3A... And there is more for those who want to research.

To the last comment. Serbian propaganda embedded through written memos how to exterminate the Albanians such as the the on of Cubrilovic's "Final Solution on Annihilation of Albanians in Yugoslavia" is another proof.

In Kosovo, by contrast, almost all women, even in small villages, dress like women in the rest of Europe. Streets, cafés, restaurants, and bars are not all-male affairs as they are in much of the Islamic world, where women spend almost all their lives behind walls. If it weren’t for the occasional mosque minaret on the skyline, there is little visible evidence that Kosovo is a Muslim-majority country at all. Kosovo looks, feels, and is European.

Kosovo is deep rooted clan society, arranged and forced marriages is common along with gruesome blood feuds. If one could make some parallel it would be mafia structures in Sicily but I doubt that it is a common interpretation of what’s feels and is European.

It was a short-lived guerrilla movement that rose up against Slobodan Milosevic’s régime, first to fight for independence from an apartheid-like system, and later as a defence against mass murder and ethnic-cleansing.

Well KLA did appear on the scene when Tito parted from the Yugoslavian project, that is long before Milosevic. The albanization of Kosovo have been a project long before KLA was created the 1974 autonomy didn’t come from thin air. The militarization of the project have probably much more to do with Tito’s death than Milosevic.

In Yugoslavia Kosovo had record population growth rate, Serb and other ethnic groups share on steady decline over the decades. Serbs did almost keep up in absolute numbers, that they did not have “normal” growth was due to lower birthrates and exodus of Serbs from Kosovo.

One resemblance with Islamic countries is the steady decline of minority ethnicities and religions, there for some reason some parts of the world where multiculturalism don’t thrive.

Kosovo face enormous problems, to just keep up they need a steady economic growth rate about 5%, to improve it should be around 7%. This is not any new Monaco, Hong Kong, Singapore and so on. Poor education, poor infrastructure, insufficient rule of law, pre-industrial social structures is just some of the problems. If the steady population growth continue Kosovo will have doubled its population in 30-40 years (and there is already a water problem with its present population) and then is already a significant part of its Kosovars in working age living abroad. And then one hasn’t even touched the European problem of Kosovo as an drug, trafficking and criminal hub in Europe.

The socialist modernization didn’t succeed in will the neo-liberal do it.