The De-Islamization of Kosovo
Gates of Vienna <http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/05/de-islamization-of-kosovo.html#readfurther> 18 May 2010 By Baron Bodissey The following article <http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=406738550736&id=100000528100585&ref=mf> presents a compelling proposal: that the newly-created state of Kosovo must be de-Islamized, for its own sake as well as that of its neighbors. The reason for this proposed initiative may come as a surprise to the reader. Many thanks to our Albanian correspondent Ilia Toli, Ph.D., for the translation: Kosovo: Referendum for De-Islamization? By Kastriot Myftaraj An article on Kosovo published at the Foreign Affairs journal is always interesting, because this is the journal for the Council on Foreign Relations, which is an important think tank with a high impact on the definition of the American foreign policy. In its number for May-June 2010 there appeared an article by Nikolas Gvosdev <http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66392/nikolas-k-gvosdev/unfreezing-kosovo> , entitled "Unfreezing Kosovo: Reconsidering Boundaries in the Balkans”. The author is at least as interesting as the article. Nikolas Gvosdev is a Russian-American, a former editor of the American journal The National Interest. Ever since 2008 he has been a professor at the Naval War College, in Newport, Rhode Island. The Naval War College is a school for the training of U.S. Marines, and a center for geostrategic studies. Nikolas Gvosdev indeed acts as a Russian lobbyist in the American establishment. He is for a policy of appeasement towards Russia and is even an apologist for the present authoritarian regime in the Kremlin, for which he has coined the term "managed pluralism.” Gvosdev is indeed a Russian lobbyist in the heart of the American strategic establishment. This is a symptom of the illness of the American society today, and would be one more footnote in the list of those identified by Samuel P. Huntington in the book <http://www.amazon.com/Who-Are-We-Challenges-Americas/dp/0684870533> Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity. (2004) CONTINUED http://europenews.dk/en/node/32229
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