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Rooting Out Serbian Patriotism While Breeding Islamic Fundamentalism in Serbia

Western mainstream media has been relentlessly denouncing Serbian “radicals” all these years, branding those who have managed to preserve the basic sense of patriotism in the midst of unsurpassed avalanche of hatred for all things Serbian as atavistic troglodytes under the common denominators of “ultra nationalists” and “radical elements.”

In part, these labels aimed at evoking taboo-fears of cannibalism and the kind of sadistic butchery Croat Nazis — Ustashas — have brought to a level of an art form during the WWII, are commonly stapled over the collective forehead of members of the Serbian Radical Party, but generally any prominent Serb who refused to accept the basic premise that Serbs are guilty for everything from global warming to extermination of the whales, has been branded “Serbian nationalist” and even an “ultra nationalist” or a “radical,” such as Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica who happens to be a constitutional lawyer by profession and couldn’t be a stauncher democrat and more Western-oriented than he already is.

Recently, however, there has been a not-so-slight turn (one could even say a radical turn), with the same Western mainstream getting it right for once, by more appropriately designating a whole other segment of Serbia’s population as “Serbia’s radicals” — radical Muslims infiltrating Serbia through Islamic Bosnia, half-Islamized newly independent Montenegro and a Very Radical Kosovo-Metohija province, all radicalized courtesy of Western powers who have, knowingly and consciously, opened the Balkans’ gates wide to the Middle Eastern mujahedeens and Muslim mercenaries, using them as another — particularly nasty — weapon from their arsenal in the brutal Western war against Serbs.

Serbian Police Cuts Off Another Weapons Smuggling Route

Serbian Novi Pazar police reported today that it has cut off the channel for weapons smuggling from Montenegro to Serbian Raska region (Muslims refer to it as “Sandzak”). The Albanian Muslim, Zaim D. (age 44), who was transporting guns and explosives from the town of Rozaje in Montenegro has been detained.

This event follows the arrest of six Muslims last month and the discovery of al-Qaeda training camp and weapons cache in Raska region in Serbia proper.

Balkans’ White al-Qaeda Supports Islamic Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq

The presence of White al-Qaeda — “Muslims with Western features who could easily blend into European or U.S. cities and carry out attacks” — in Serbia proper, according to the April 3 AP report, “is linked to the advent of mujahedeen foreign fighters who joined Bosnian Muslims in their battle against the Serbs in Bosnia’s 1992-95 independence war.” The article also mentions that Serbian Raska (Sandzak) Muslims “like to be called Bosniaks because they believe they ethnically belong to Bosnia, not Serbia.”

AP reporter describes the Raska region’s biggest town, Novi Pazar, as “more Saudi than Serbian.”

Chants of muezzins echo from minarets across the town of 100,000, which is nearly 90 percent Muslim. Beggars crowd around yellow-brick buildings, and vendors at makeshift markets peddle everything from framed Quran verses to counterfeit designer blue jeans, watches and perfumes. Many women are clad head to toe in black.

Among fundamentalists like Edin Bejtovic, an unofficial spokesman for the conservative Muslim community, the mood is staunchly anti-American and in support of the radical Islamic insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“According to the Americans, every average Muslim is a potential terrorist,” said Bejtovic, who denied claims in Serbian media that his group is financed by Saudi Arabia-based radicals and that it was plotting attacks.

But he warned: “It can all become true if the Americans don’t stop their destruction of Muslim nations and Islam.”

Kosovo-Metohija Province, Another Western Experiment in Repotting Saudi Brand of Terror

Around the same time Serbian police discovered the al-Qaeda training camp along with a large supply of weapons, ammunition, hand grenades and explosive at Ninaja Mountain, 30 kilometers from Novi Pazar, Serbian media reported about the well entrenched al-Qaeda cells in southern Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija, confirming that “Wahhabis have been active in the province since the early 1990s. The reports claim that the radical Islamic sect has 30 religious schools in Kosovo, adding that [...] the expansion of Wahhabism in the province has been aided by the foreign NGOs that still operate under the umbrella of the joint Saudi committee for assistance to Kosovo and Chechnya. These organizations arrived in the province in the wake of the 1999 war and stayed on in the field, obeying the Saudi government’s position to ‘remain as long as they’re needed’.”

Explaining that “Wahhabi terrorism is by no means the only form of jihad that threatens the rest of the world” and that “the followers of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahab [...] usually describe themselves as ‘Unitarians,’ or else as ‘Salafis’,” one of the world’s foremost experts on Islam and its concept of jihad, Dr. Srdja Trifkovic points out that “Western intervention in the Balkans in the 1990s has enabled Islamic extremism, including Wahhabism, to penetrate into the Balkans. The connection has already been established between similar camps in Bosnia and Islamic terrorist activities all over the world.”

Supporting Ahtisaari’s Proposal Leads to Creation of a Jihad Terrorist State in the Heart of Europe

The focus on the mainstream, i.e. non-Wahhabist leadership among the Slavic Muslims and Muslim Albanians in the former Yugoslavia is on the continued demographic expansion of their communities, notably in the region of Raska (“Sandzak”) in southwestern Serbia, where the exodus of the local Serbs is continuing quietly but continuously. If this trend continues, the Muslims may well be able to realize part of their dream of the Green Transverse. It is the geopolitical project that connects Istanbul in the southeast with the northwestern-most point of Islamic penetration in the Balkans in the area of Cazin in northwest Bosnia.

[...] It is unfortunate that Serbia is facing obstacles in its struggle against Islamic terrorism from those same governments that claim to be fighting it themselves. By supporting the Ahtisaari’s plan for Kosovo’s independence, many Western governments are effectively working to support the establishment of a black hole of criminal lawlessness and jihad terrorism in the heart of Europe. Some of the E.U. governments are aware of the problem, but they are not particularly influential. Romania, Slovakia, and less openly Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Italy, are far from enthusiastic about Ahtisaari’s proposal.

The manner in which western policies have facilitated Islamic objectives in the Balkans over the past fifteen years is something of a taboo in the West. Washington and Brussels have preferred to be in a state of permanent denial about the existence of the Islamist threat in the former Yugoslavia, even though Western law-enforcement officials and anti-terrorism experts are perfectly aware that there is hardly a terrorist action around the world that does not have a Balkan connection. They have sowed the seeds of terrorist infiltration through their policy, and what they have reaped so far was, unfortunately, to be expected. Innocent people who were not privy to those decisions, and who were misinformed about those decisions by the mainstream media, are paying the price.