The most distinguished fighter from Kosovo in the Islamic state was Lundrim Muhaxheri. However, after his death, Russian media are writing about a Kosovo women assessing her to be just as dangerous as her compatriot. Russian agency Sputnik reported about her citing allegedly a report of the Kosovo Center for Security Studies. However, director of this organization, Florian Qehaja, refuted Russian media, saying that Russia is leading a wild campaign against Kosovo. “Reporting untruth to leave the impression that claims are based on our reports, and which in fact are pre-arranged analysis by different political circles to affect the image of Kosovo,” he said. Qehaja even considers that Kosovo Albanians are not the most distinguished among ISIS, but it is more a perception of the media. “In a direct or indirect manner, intentionally or not, they contributed on harming the image of Kosovo, because they positioned Kosovo in a place that suits anti-Kosovo circles, such as Serbia.”
Speaking at this round-table, where strategy for prevention of violent extremism and radicalism was discussed, Qehaja assessed that those Albanians who got prepared to go to Syria but they couldn’t, are more dangerous than the ones that are already there.
Representatives of Kosovo’s Islamic Community said that those who speak Arabic language are less keen to be part of these groups. “Most of those who understand Arabic language, are far from these extreme ideologies. However, there is danger and we should be dealing with it,” one of the representatives said.
It was said that Kosovo Police should have a significant role in preventing this phenomenon in Kosovo through neighborhood police officers and training of pre-university teachers.
