Kosovo
Muslims Issue
Geographical and Historical Information:
Kosovo is a forgotten Islamic land
populated by nearly two million Albanian Muslims. It is located in the heart of the
Balkan, which had witnessed the tragedy of Bosnia Herzegovina to be followed by the
tragedy Kosovo Muslims.
Kosovo land was inhabited by man in the
prehistoric age where the ancient sources mention that Elyria tribe were the first group
which lived in that land and founded the state of Darina. Later, the region came under the
Roman and then the Byzantine rule until the advent of Islam with the ottomans that
conquered and ruled the region in 1912.
This historic fact refutes the Serbs claim
that they are the indigenous population of the land. Serbs immigrated to the region along
with those groups who emigrated in successive waves from the eastern regions of URL
mountains intending for South East Europe Lands and dispersed there on under different
names: Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Buglers and Slovenians.
The collective immigration of these groups
lead to conflicts between the immigrants and the tribes as well as the existing
inhabitants from one side, and the Byzantine and Mgiars (Hungarians) who enforced their
control on the region, from the other side. Eventually the balance tipped in the favour of
the Serbs.
However, the Serbs power did not last for a
long time, as it came into direct clash with the Ottoman power. Kosovo, was then the
arena, which had witnessed the end of the Serbs rule at the hands of the Ottomans. Thus,
the Albanians got rid of the Serbs rule and collectively embraced the Islamic religion to
become soldiers under the Turks in that region.
Serbs are taking this historic period of
Kosovo region as a pretext to inflame their malice against the Muslims in the region. They
consider the 25th day of June 1889. (The date of Kosovo Battle) as an important
occasion to commemorate its anniversary and review its glorification. Despite their defeat
in that battle, They still trying to confirm their claim that they are the indigenous
inhabitants of the country. But we have learned the invalidity of this claim from the
history of the region.
After the battle of Kosovo in which the
Muslims triumphed over the Serbs. Bayazeed who succeeded his father as the ruler of the
Muslims, appointed Prince Stephan Bin Lazar a governor of Serbia and empowered him to
govern his homeland under their own laws. However, Islam began to spread among the
population in general and the Albanians in particular until it became firmly established
in the region during the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. When the entity of the
Ottoman State started weakening and wearing out. Deviation from the right divine of Allah
began to increase gradually, the state lacked behind scientifically, administratively and
militarily. As a result, the secessionist movement and the internal revolts ignited by the
malicious crusades became active. The Muslim soldier lost his discipline, Jewish and
Christian organizations and parties emerged, and the Ottoman State eventually got to the
point of weakness and disunion. The Balkan war began and the Turks withdrew from South
East of Europe and finally Albania separated from the Ottoman State.
The
Serbs Criminal Methods:
When Albania separated from the Ottoman
State, including Kosovo, the Serbs began implementing their plan to fight Islam and the
Muslims. The Serbs forces began exerting various types of pressures upon the Muslims of
Kosovo. Arrest, killing, expulsion, deny of education and employment and other practices
were employed against Muslims of Kosovo.
At present, the international journalism
and world news tell us about the atrocities and the campaigns of ethnic cleansing and
other crimes committed by the Serbs against the Albanian Muslim people of Kosovo. The
villages are subjected to total destruction, number of the dead increasing day after day
while the Serbs are pursuing in this respect the policy of the burnt land and the
collective extermination. They have used different kinds of light and heavy weapons
against an unarmed people who has no army nor a power which is against the moral values
and the world customs before the eyes and the ears of the world at large.
The acts committed by the Serbs against the
Kosovans are not unfamiliar nor unheard of , but come under a new phase which is one of
the chain of phases that has already been planned against the people of Kosovo and is one
of the successive old and recent crimes against this people.
Within the framework of the Serbs hegemony
over Kosovo. In 1991 Serbia has abolished the right of education in the Albanian language
in Kosovo Region. They suspended all the subsidies paid for the Albanian textbooks, and in
April of the same year it froze the salaries of the Albanian teachers. In September, the
police occupied hundreds of preliminary schools and all the secondary schools. They closed
up 975 preliminary schools, 115 secondary schools and 20 colleges and universities. Thus
depriving 430 thousand of Albanians from receiving their education and 118 thousand
teachers of their jobs.
The Serbs have deported more two million
Muslims from their homes to Turkey, Egypt, Syria and the European Countries and in doing
so, they committed the most abominable and vicious crimes including killing and butchering
the oppressed Muslims. Examples of such crimes are:
Mr. Shaferkes, member of the ruling
Christian Democratic Party in Germany, said in describing the Serbs Crimes under the title
(I have seem all of it with my own eyes): “I saw a child no more than three months old
with his nose and ears being cut off. I saw picture of pregnant women with rip open
bellies. Their fetuses explore mutilated. I saw old men and young men slaughtered with
their throats silted from vein to vein. I saw many women who were raped, some of them
pregnant and they have only few weeks to give birth. I saw pictures that I have never seen
anything like them even on the screens eastern or western. I challenge them if they have
the courage to transmit them. I shall never forget, Those things that I have seen.”
There is the case of the infant, which was
told by many newspapers at the time. The Serbs grabbed the infant and hold it on the fire
until it was roasted before the eyes of its father. Then they cut it into pieces and
forced its father to eat some of its fresh, then fired on and killed him.
This is what the Serbs have done in Bosnia
and are repeating it today to our Muslim brothers who constitute (93%) of the population
of Kosovo while the Serbs do not make more than 7%. What shall the talk avail us after all
this?
Slobodan Milocevic, the Serbs leader, has
declared in his address to the Serbs who were demonstrating in Belgrade in November 1989
in the anniversary of the battle of Kosovo, which was fought six hundred years ago: “The
battle of Kosovo started six centuries ago and it has come to an end today. We are ready
to scarify three hundred Serb’s fighters to eradicate Islam from Serajevo to Makkah!”
The Serbs have began their attack by a
secret exterminating war plan prepared by the Yugoslavia Security Organization in
coordination with the Federal Army to be carried out in Kosovo. The Kosovo newspapers
published this plan in Albanian language by one of the military experts who have read it.
The summary of the plan was as follow.
First Phase: Carry out quick operation
against some Albanian homes and villages, to be performed by a group of the special Armed
Forces of the Ministry of Interior (Police). These operations shall be named “The
Blitzkrieg Operations”.
Second phase: To besiege some villages by
the police and the Army, and to surround them for some days in order to weaken the morale
of the people, to frighten them and to suppress any movement or resistance that might
enacted by the people of those villages. These operations are called: (The exquisite
besieging operations).
Third phase: To strike the area from land
(artillery), and from air (Aircraft), should there arise any from the side of the Albanian
people which shall justify, before the world, the use of the regular Army Forces against
the people.
The first phase was witnessed, where the
Serbs forces have carried out blitzkrieg operation in more than one area in Kosovo. As for
the second phase however, its signs began came out and if Allah permitted, and that they
reached the third phase of this plan, nothing would have remained there for the Muslim
except that which had remained for them after the fall of the Andalus (Andalucia, Spain).
Kosovo disaster could surpass the massacres of Bosnia and other areas.
These massacres are taking place before the
eyes and ears and with the blessing of the world order since the conference of London in
1990, which discussed the future of Yugoslavia and intentionally ignored the Kosovo
independence issue.
Muslim
Toleration:
In return for that, if we consider the
Islamic civilizational framework with which the Muslim Ottomans ruled the regions which
they had conquered, we could see how the humanitarian and civilizational allegations
raised by the western civilization, represented by their new world order, are collapsing.
Here are some examples, for you, which bear witness that Islam is the only religion which
principles and regulations never change if obeyed by the people. It abrogates all ethnic
and racial considerations from its criteria. We could find in the statistics stated Ismael
Hami in his book “ Encyclopaedia of Ottoman History” a concrete evidence of the
Ottomans impartiality and their abstention from involvement wilderness of racialism and
national traits. The number of those who assumed the portfolio of sublime post and Prime
ministers mount to (292) persons. They were distributed according to their ethnic groups
and nationalities as follows:
(132): Turkish origin; (94): of Albanian
origin; (23): of Byzanlian origin; (6): of Slavic origin; (13): of Yugoslavia origin;
(14): of Sheshnian origin; (1): of Arabian origin; (4): of Circassian origin; (3): of
Armenian origin; (1): from Russian origin; (1): from Jewish origin while the others
belonged to unknown and no-Turkish nationalities.
Toleration of Islam closely adhered to by
the Ottoman Sultans during their conquests in Europe, was a powerful factor in the spread
of Islam among the Albanians who were exhausted by the religious conflicts among different
Christian sects, factionalism of foreign powers towards their sect, their persistence to
impose the Christian religion by force on the other Communities, oppressing those adhered
to their faith, in addition to the tyranny of local Princes in the rule and enslaving
members of the people.
The people found Muslim Ottoman rule a
saviour and supporter to them in their life, hence they entered and wound around such rule
voluntarily.
Testimonies:
Dr. Mohammad Mufaco, professor in Kosovo
University in Yugoslavia describes this stage saying:
“After these developments, the Albanian
region witnessed evident stability which allowed for Islam to spread among the Albanians
rank and file. This spread clearly since the mid fifteenth century”. Yet, the best
testimony was that which was ceded by the enemies. The Greek encyclopedia, published in
Athena in 1932, conceded that the Christian Byzantine preferred to remain in their city
with their properties under the Ottoman sovereignty. As for the American woman writer. Dr.
Mary Mills Patric, she wrote a book titled “Sultans of Ottomans Dynasty”, where she
spat out on its pages the accumulation of long centuries malice of enmity towards Islam
and Muslims, but she could not but say: in fact, Sultan Mohammad had revealed a great
tolerance towards the Christians and this is best indicated by his saying to them: I swear
by Allah that I guarantee your congregation in your churches for prayer.” She also says
“Sultan Mohammad al Fatih did show a great tolerance towards the Christians, and during
his reign each community had a religious leader who did not address any other party except
the Sultan directly; and each of these communities had its own schools and places of
worship and nobody had the right to interfere in their financial affairs while the members
of each community had the freedom to use the language they liked.”
Mr. Karl Brocleman said in his book,
History of Islamic peoples”: The aspiration of young Christian for a prosperous future
made them affectionately attach to the personality of the Ottoman Sultan and be loyal to
him”. The “Orient Magazine” which was published under the administrate of Saint
Joseph college and edited by Father Louise Shaikho, had published in its issue of November
1911 the following news on page (898): “Of the indications that the Ottoman State is
willing to realize quality among the different elements, was that it appointed last year
onoe of our Roman Catholics, Mr. Ibrahim Sosa Affendi as a ruler in one of the important
Ottoman wilayas (States) and which include safeed sea, the Archipelago, Rhodes, Kurganos,
and safis.”
The orientalist (Sweihim) in an article
about the Albanians which was published in the Islamic Encyclopedia said: “During the
Russian-Turkish war (1877 – 1878), the Catholics and the Orthodox of the mountain people
refused to raise their swards against the Sultan despite being instigated by the Russians”.
The spread of Islam in Albania was
associated with the diffuse of the Islamic culture throughout the country regions, as well
as the writing of literary works, the use of Arabic alphabet in the Albanian language.
Albania reached the Zenith of human advancement and the civilizational development due to
the spread of the economic, social and educational installations which gave rise to great
cultural progress and the emerge of Albanian men of culture, poets during the Islamic rule
in such a way that Albania has never witnessed anything similar before the advent of
Islam.
