e martë, mars 25, 2008
Albania sitting on communist-era powder keg
"How could women and children work without training, practically like slaves, dismantling ammunition without a single security measure several kilometres from Tirana?"
America Must Work to End Anti-Gay Abuses Worldwide
After Korab Zuka founded a gay-rights group in Kosovo in 2005, he received threatening phone calls and emails and had his car vandalized.
"We are going to make you hold your intestines," Zuka, 22, recalls being warned. "We will (rape) your mother ... and we are going to cut your head off.'"
The police were indifferent to his cries for protection.
E Verteta4_: :)
NATO bombs still plague Kosovo Serbs
Thousands of Kosovo Serbs are still listed as missing – nine years after NATO began bombing the former Yugoslavia. The relatives of some of the victims are still searching for bodies. Russia Today met with some of them, and heard of their desperate search to find the remains of missing loved ones.
E Verteta4_U: Notice how they forgot to mention the Kosovo Albanians who are still missing too.
Floods Cause Disruption In Kosovo
Pristina _ Heavy rain and snow on Monday has created widespread flooding in Kosovo, leading to disruption across the territory.
Macedonia-Kosovo Border Meeting On Hold
Skopje_ Governments of Macedonia and Kosovo called off a planned meeting of a joint committee tasked with demarcation of the border, set for Tuesday.
Will Kosovo be turned over to the Pentagon?
- Predictions made by experts before Kosovo's illegal declaration of independence are coming true - the territory seized from Serbia is turning into a big military base of the United States and NATO.
Kosovo prime minister rejects Serbian proposal to partition Kosovo along ethnic lines
PRISTINA, Kosovo: Kosovo's prime minister on Tuesday rejected a Serbian government proposal to partition Kosovo between its minority Serbs and dominant ethnic Albanians, saying Belgrade must accept that all of the territory is independent.
Serbia asks UN for partitioning of Kosovo
Serbia has formally proposed partitioning Kosovo along ethnic lines for the first time, asking the United Nations to ensure that Belgrade can control key institutions and functions in areas of the newly independent country where Serbs form a majority.
Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think
* "As we have seen in the [Gallup] data, resentment against the West comes from what Muslims perceive as the West's hatred and denigration of Islam; the Western belief that Arabs and Muslim are inferior; and their [Muslims'] fear of Western intervention, domination, or occupation" (141).
* "As our [Gallup's] data has demonstrated, the primary cause of broad-based anger and anti-Americanism is not a clash of civilizations but the perceived effect of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world" (156).
* "[The Gallup data shows that] contrary to what the 'They Hate Our Freedom' thesis might predict, Muslims do not recommend or insist upon changes to Western culture or social norms as the path to better [Western-Muslim] relations. ... Rather they call on the West to show greater respect for Islam, and they emphasize policy-related issues [U.S. interventionism; unqualified support for Israel; and protection for authoritarian Arab regimes]" (159).
"They hate us because we are free." -- Official White Horse Souse
THE VATICAN MUST SHOW GOOD WILL TOWARDS MUSLIMS
The highly-publicized conversion to Catholicism of a naturalized Italian citizen of Egyptian origin this week once again illustrates the uneasy relations between Islam and western Christianity.
The problem, of course, doesn't lie in the conversion itself. People after all should be free to choose their faith and way of life without coercion. The Quran itself declares that "let there be no compulsion in religion."
But the problem lies in the vindictive atmosphere surrounding the conversion ceremony, including the anti-Islamic allusions and insinuations.
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