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Islam in East Europe

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  • Bejtja , A. 1999 . Islam, 'Albanians and war in Kosovo' . AIM , 31 May The editorials of Mohamed Sid-Ahmed and Salama Ahmed Salama in the 1-7 April, Hassan Nafaa in the 15-21 April 1999 issues of Al-Ahram Weekly, are good examples and so is A. Jaballah, 'Ma'sat Kosovo bayn al-'agz wat-tasaulat al-muhayyira' ('The tragedy of Kosovo between helplessness and confusing questions'), Al-Europiya, June 1999. This magazine (of the Federation of the Islamic Organisations in Europe) is purported to become the representative organ of arabophone European Muslims. To accuse the Atlantic Alliance of becoming the instrument of US domination in Europe, and West European social democrat leaders of betraying socialism by supporting the NATO war in Yugoslavia without a UN mandate, are phoney and disturbing arguments for Balkan Muslims and East European minorities threatened by post-communists (and not just by Milosevic). Such arguments were raised not only by Al-Ahram but also in several articles of the April 1999 issues of Le monde diplomatique. See also
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