Is Europe Pushing Kosovo Into the Arms of Erdoğan? (Huffington Post)
In Kosovo, the speech came as a shock. At a party rally before local elections last October, the forceful leader of the opposition Vetëvendosje party, Albin Kurti, swore on the Koran that victory would be theirs. Once in power, he told supporters, the party would work to end Islamophobia. At first glance, the speech makes […]
Read More →NATO-Kosovo Cooperation (Huffington Post)
The Kosovo Security Force (KSF) should be upgraded into a full-standing army and integrated into NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP), which readies countries for full NATO membership. The KSF was created soon after Kosovo declared independence in 2008. It is a small, lightly armed security and civil defense force akin to a national guard. It […]
Read More →Islamism in Kosovo (The Huffington Post)
Albanians have always been intensely pro-American. Kosovars deeply appreciate the US-led NATO intervention in 1999, which put Kosovo on the path to independence. They are grateful to the US for coordinating Kosovo’s recognition by the international community. Given the strong affinity between Albanians and the United States, the recent rise of Islamism in Kosovo is […]
Read More →A “Great Fear” in Kosovo (Huffington Post)
The global Muslim community is suffering a deep crisis. The failure of the “Arab Spring” led, most prominently, to horrendous bloodletting in Syria. In this carnage, both the Damascus dictatorship of Bashar Al-Assad, which is supported by the Iranian regime, and the ultra-Wahhabi “Islamic State” that opposes the civil resistance to Bashar, are guilty. Syrian, […]
Read More →Kosovo Is Not Serbia (Huffington Post)
Jasmina Tesanovic Feminist author and political activist Crossing the border from Serbia to Kosovo is easy. Serbian citizens can get by with daily ID, as if they were EU citizen inside the EU Schengen fortress. If you are, for example, a globetrotting American, it gets interesting. The Kosovo border officers admire your travel stamps and […]
Read More →ISIS and the Kosovar Albanians (Huffington Post)
Stephen Schwartz Executive Director, Center for Islamic Pluralism Posted: 08/12/2014 2:44 pm U.S. air strikes continue against the terrorists of the so-called “Islamic State” — formerly the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” or ISIS — in the borderlands of Iraqi Kurdistan. American military action has been impelled by the genocidal ISIS threat to Christians […]
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- Serb majority in N.Kosovo shuns vote on ethnic Albanian mayors - San Francisco Examiner 29/04/2024
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