re: Serbia-Kosovo conflict reigniting

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Your implication was that no one was forced to convert to Islam

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He's gonna defend islam at all cost, simply because its the minority in this country.

Its a waste of time.

Because you know the tax was a way to force people to convert to Islam.

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Because you know the tax was a way to force people to convert to Islam.

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The Qur’an prohibits forced conversion and even says that forced conversion is invalid.

The jizyah was CERTAINLY intended to ENCOURAGE conversion. Sometimes it was successful (see Bosnia and Kosovo) and sometimes it was not (see the Iberian Jews).

By contrast, look at the Iberian Reconquista. No tax there. Non-Christians were given just two choices by the conquering Christians: convert to Catholicism or be expelled from the peninsula.

200,000 Jews who retained their religion thru centuries of Muslim rule were expelled for refusing to become Catholic.

We just gave $202 million to Kosovo in the latest bill.

We can take those refugees.

"We call on Pristina and the United States and the European Union backing it to stop provocation and observe the Serbs’ rights in Kosovo," Zakharova said.

Pristina’s decision "to begin the use of ungrounded discriminatory ‘rules’ on mandatory change of identification documents and car plates of the local Serbs from August 1 is another step to oust the Serbian population from Kosovo, to squeeze out institutions of the Kosovo Serbs, which defend the rights of ethnic Serbs from the arbitrariness of the Pristina radicals led by ‘Prime Minister’ Albin Kurti."

"The Kosovar leaders know that the Serbs will not stay indifferent when it comes to a direct attack on their freedom and are deliberately seeking to aggravate the situation to trigger a force scenario. Naturally, Belgrade is at the forefront of the attack, since the West is seeking to ‘neutralize’ it by means of the Kosovo Albanians."

Such development of the situation is another evidence that the European Union’s mediatory mission has failed. "It is also an example of what the European Union thinks about the role of Belgrade, which, as a matter of fact, is supposed to put up with the deprivation of rights of its compatriots."

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There are entire towns in Sicily and Southern Italy comprised of ethnic Albanians who did not want to be forced to convert to Islam.

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Is this why the best local pizza places in my area are all Albanian-owned? They are all called Big Joe’s or Sal’s, but everyone running them is Albanian and they make a hell of a pizza.

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Well, the ancestors of the folks in those Sicilian villages last lived in “Albania” about 1000 years ago.

You may as well suggest that Englishmen make great escargot and cheese, since their ancestors came from France at about the same time.

1. Russian troll farm resident Basionok supports Slavic Serbs. Surprise.

2. Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo are refusing to obtain Kosovar identity documents and vehicle plates, and Serbia sees this as a gross violation of human rights?

There’s money to be had

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They ‘chose’ to because Muslims placed a tax on them if they didn’t convert.

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True, but how many actually practice any religion at all. The Serbs claim they are Muslim by last name alone regardless if the person actually is religious. My MIL is Bosniac and my FIL is Serb. It is a very weird dynamic most Americans know nothing about.