Negotiations regarding the future status of Kosovo have begun and it is
increasingly clear that the overwhelming majority of the world media, not
to mention the government of the United States and its allies, favor giving
independence to the Serbian province of Kosovo, which since the 1999
war has been administered by the United Nations under NATO military
control. In effect, the western world is in favor of detaching Kosovo from
(Christian) Serbia by fiat of power and making it into an independent Muslim
state.
The main argument of those supporting this scenario - notably in the United
States, where advocates of the Muslim Albanian cause are very well
funded - is that by doing so America would repair its image in the Islamic
world and show that Americans do not have anti-Islamic inclinations. This,
they think, would co-opt the influence of Islamic "extremists" and thus spare
another possible 9/11 type attack.
Such sentiments can be found in the official report by the 9-11 Commission
where it is recommended that America "defends, Muslims against tyrants
and criminals in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. If the
United States does not act aggressively to define itself in the Islamic world,
the extremists will gladly do the job for us."
In addition, proponents of the independent Muslim Kosovo argue that the
Muslim leadership in that province is moderate and that through nation
building could create a prosperous, multiethnic democracy, which will,
while still remaining sufficiently Muslim, serve as an example of how one
can remain a Muslim and be secular at the same time.
This policy is founded on several grave misconceptions.
The first is that in the last five years of Muslim domination in Kosovo, that
province has become monoethnic and monoreligious with Christians under
pressure to flee the province or lose their life.
Second, by granting independence to Kosovo Muslims, hatred of America
in the Islamic world will not be mitigated but would increase because the
Islamic world and especially the violent jihadists will read this as a sign of
weakness and West's capitulation at the demands of Muslims. Granting
independence to an Islamic Kosovo will mollify many Muslims across the
globe in their belief that their violent ways are indeed superior to the
infidel American and would strengthen their conviction that such policy
should be exported across the globe and most notably against Israel.
Full text http://www.serbianna.com/columns/jevtic/014.shtml
Saudi Arabia -
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-03-29-saudi-arrests_x.htm
for the full text
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| Saudi authorities arrest 40 suspected al-Qaeda militants RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities arrested 40 suspected
members of al-Qaeda — including some allegedly involved in last month's
attempted bombing of a key oil complex — and seized a large cache of
weapons and explosives, the official Saudi Press Agency reported
Wednesday.
The agency, quoting an unidentified Interior Ministry official, said security
forces carried out simultaneous operations in the holy cities of Mecca
and Medina, and Qassim in the north and Asir in the south.
The agency did not say when the arrests were made.
Authorities said 19 of those arrested were suspected of financing
terrorist attacks and disseminating "disinformation on the Internet,"
the official said. They included Saudis and "residents," the official said
without elaborating on the others' nationalities. |
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