The invasion of Kosovo by Islamist radicals, including assaults on moderate Muslims (see here, here, and here) now includes threats of a "religious war" against Albanian Christians, some of whom have left Islam for the Catholic faith of their ancestors.
On August 20, a man named Gjon (John) Mehaj declared to Albanian-language media, from Norway, that his home in the Kosovo village of Prigode-Istog had been burned to the ground. Mehaj supported the Kosovo Liberation Army during the 1998-99 war in the Balkan republic, and the house had been razed at that time by Serbian forces. But Mehaj, who formerly bore the Muslim first name Enver, said the new attack was not unexpected. He had received "numerous, anonymous threats" from radical Muslim groups before and after he was baptized in a Catholic church on August 3. He was joined in his act of faith by 20 other family members.
This article is well worth the read. The Weekly Standard
No comments:
Post a Comment