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The Emperor is wearing Albanian Clothes

Bhaskar Dasgupta February 18, 2008

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#24 Posted by jang on February 22, 2008 6:39:33 am
yar looks like kosovo is about to become a"front-line" ally or some such thing..its a fight between anglosaxon crusaders and the byzentines.
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#23 Posted by nkg on February 21, 2008 8:57:51 pm
USA and NATO is keep on playing dirty game with Russia. Entire Eastern Europe they are trying to influence. When these Cosovo people will fight Jihad against US Marines and NATO forces in Afghainsthan, that will be ultimate way to pay back and this is very common for Islamic nations (harm the fellow from whom you got help- Pakistan is fed by USA and they are most anti-USA, Bangladesh was liberated by India and they are most anti-Indian...). Without the help of EU, the new state will not survive. Working as islamic militant and running and administration is very difficult task. Afghanisthan has prove it.
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#22 Posted by Kamath on February 21, 2008 6:05:54 pm
Hi All:

What a pity they say. Is it not ironic that Kosovars were liberated and given freedom by Infidels' bombs! Now onwards Kosovars will be free, free atlast. Time close the borders shut and go back to pristine Medinan days, Inshallah!

kamath
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#21 Posted by nkg on February 21, 2008 2:19:28 am
Re: # 11
When you will be freed from medival barbarism ( Islam)? That is the actual freedom....
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#20 Posted by nkg on February 21, 2008 2:18:13 am
Again some nasty game played by USA. Hope, things change rapidly.
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#19 Posted by ISlamIslam on February 19, 2008 7:37:27 pm
Ref Kamath #3

[Independence for Kosovars! Perhaps a good thing!. Who knows!

I bet on one thing. Soon A green flag will rise with a little symbol of the Cresent Moon.Just a signal for minorities to vacate from places wherever they might have lived for the past centuries. Then all will be equallized among the remaining residents.one language, one Book and one Sharia laws. Mark my words.]

Look on the silver lining. Just one place to nuke with no collateral damage!
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#18 Posted by ISlamIslam on February 19, 2008 7:33:24 pm
Ref Urstruly #11

[TO ALL KOSOVARS "HEARTIEST FELICITATIONS" TO YOU

FROM YOUR BRETHERN IN PAKISTAN.

Inshallah, One day Chechens, Kashmiris, Philipinos, and Thai Muslims will win their freedom too.]

And, one day, The Faithful shall triumph over those Christian dhimmis of East Timor who somehow managed to escape the bonds of servitude they owed our Islamic Brethren in Indonesia.

And we shall all stick our @rses in the air and worship Allah. He is Da Man!!!
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#17 Posted by tahmed32 on February 19, 2008 7:18:30 pm
#15 ...but...urstruly will make the kashmiris truly free by forcing women to put on burqas and men to grow beards.
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#16 Posted by tahmed32 on February 19, 2008 7:18:16 pm
#15 ...but...urstruly will make the kashmiris truly free by forcing women to put on burqas and men to grow beards.
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#15 Posted by majumdar on February 19, 2008 7:11:37 pm
Urstruly,

(One day Kashmiris will win their freedom too.)

They are already a free people. They elect their own state and national govts. Plus, their Islamiat is much safer in India:

They have their own personal laws.
They are free to pray in their mosques.
Their members in the Indian security forces dont have to fight USA's WOT.
Their land is not used as a base to bomb Muslims as part of WOT.

Regards
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#14 Posted by tahmed32 on February 19, 2008 5:51:45 pm
This is your big chance urstruly - move to Kosovo.
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#13 Posted by Eklavya on February 19, 2008 5:26:37 pm
Warmest congratulations to Muslims living in Kosovo. When one considers the history of Kosovo, both ancient and recent, what a group of Muslims has achieved once again is just astonishing. Absolutely nothing short of another fulfilment of Iqbalian dream and determination. One can see the shadows of Pakistan.

More broadly, felicitations are in order for Urstruly, ali_1, and neembu ji too, and to all liberal and secular people everywhere.
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bongdongs, NATO is passe. Now it is fighting with shadows. Muslims living in Kosovo are not part of that fight.


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#12 Posted by bongdongs on February 19, 2008 12:46:24 pm
The war against Serbia and independence for Kosovo was part of the Atlantic alliance's desire to extend the boundaries of NATO further east. The various "color" revolutions in ex-Soviet republics (Rose/Orange/Tulip) and allies (Bulldozer revolution) is part of teh same plan. These plans are developed and incremented at regular intervals at the CIA and state department. An historically weak Russia provided the opportunity to get the ball rolling.

Thus, Kosovo is no canonical example which will be broadly applied by the western alliance to extend "liberty". It will be used as a precendent when appropriate in the larger geostrategic framework and ignored when it is not helpful. You may view this as "hypocrisy", others will view it as reality.
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#11 Posted by Urstruly on February 19, 2008 12:17:59 pm
TO ALL KOSOVARS "HEARTIEST FELICITATIONS" TO YOU

FROM YOUR BRETHERN IN PAKISTAN.

Inshallah, One day Chechens, Kashmiris, Philipinos, and Thai Muslims will win their freedom too. If in the heart of Europe Bosnia and Kosovo can emerge then this dream will realize itself. It is just matter of time.

One day Pakistan will be free and sovereign too when we will get rid of an occupying NaPak haramkhor fouj. We will be free when we get rid of corrupt, pro-western, oppressive ruling elite - the haramzadas and ghulamzadas. Inshallah.

People! of Pakistan! do not compromise on this evil that has hounded us for 60 years and only now it has lost its facade. Chalay chalo keh abhi manzil nahhin aaii.
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#10 Posted by Kamath on February 19, 2008 11:04:02 am
Re: # 7
Even the RED CROSS gets replaced by the crescent. How about that.Is that Serbian too?

kamath
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#9 Posted by krbhatti on February 19, 2008 9:49:56 am
aaakh thoooh..... Thats what I can say with the most politeness about this article....
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#8 Posted by RiazHaq on February 19, 2008 7:06:41 am
Your piece is just another Dominoes theory based on specious arguments. Kosovo is one of the most impoverished and backward parts of Europe. Kosovars suffered greatly under Serb rule and yet they did not seek separation for a long time because Yugoslavia maintained a semblance of "autonomy" under Ibrahim Rugova. It was only after the Serbs formally took away that "autonomy" that the Kosovars' independence movement picked up steam. So the lesson here is: Do not mess with peoples' right to run their affairs. If you do, you run the risk of fighting liberation wars. The days of unfettered empires are over.
Riaz Haq, PakAlumni Worldwide
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#7 Posted by neembu on February 19, 2008 6:41:45 am
Re: # 3

Really? As opposed to the Serbian cross?
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#3 Posted by Kamath on February 19, 2008 4:30:22 am
Independence for Kosovars! Perhaps a good thing!. Who knows!

I bet on one thing. Soon A green flag will rise with a little symbol of the Cresent Moon.Just a signal for minorities to vacate from places wherever they might have lived for the past centuries. Then all will be equallized among the remaining residents.one language, one Book and one Sharia laws. Mark my words.

Kamath
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#2 Posted by neembu on February 19, 2008 4:03:59 am
These pieces should be more formally written, in language, content and organization. It is very hard to take what is here seriously given the casual and tangential quality of the text's rhetoric.
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#1 Posted by krbhatti on February 19, 2008 1:21:45 am
Aaaah so it really hurts...hain gupta ji.....
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    #24 jang
    #23 nkg
    #22 Kamath
    #21 nkg
    #20 nkg
    #19 ISlamIslam
    #18 ISlamIslam
    #17 tahmed32
    #16 tahmed32
    #15 majumdar
    #14 tahmed32
    #13 Eklavya
    #12 bongdongs
    #11 Urstruly
    #10 Kamath
    #9 krbhatti
    #8 RiazHaq
    #7 neembu
    #6 slyder.
    #5 arjun_5
    #4 arjun_5
    #3 Kamath
    #2 neembu
    #1 krbhatti

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