Halil Matoshi in his weekly column comments on the recent arrests of forty Kosovo citizens suspected of being part of terrorist organisations and claims that in a normal country, before the police take a spectacular operation, the society would have to analyse the reasons that led to the spreading of such fundamentalist movements. Political Islam, remarks Matoshi, has become a global problem and the Kosovo society, to which these recently-arrested forty young men belong to, is unprepared to deal with such a challenge.
It can even be said that there is currently violence being exercised by both sides: those supporting political Islam and those “formally” against it, adds Matoshi. He says that before the law enforcement institutions in Kosovo declare 40 youths as terrorists, they should hold accountable the religious clerics who preach political Islam and those who fund it.
Matoshi calls for the release of the young men arrested few days ago and urges institutions to make sure these persons are sobered up, get a job and a future. The arrested could however be charged for planning terrorist acts but they cannot be accused of participating in the wars in Syria and Iraq for the lack of appropriate legislation on the issue. “Very soon this spectacle will fade away and be forgotten but the old problems will remain”, writes Matoshi.
