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Islamic Tolerance Alert from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
SHKODER, Albania (Reuters) - Muslims in Albania's northern city of Shkoder are opposing plans to erect a statue to Mother Teresa, the ethnic Albanian Catholic nun in line for elevation to sainthood by the Vatican.The dispute is unusual for Albania, where religion was banned for 27 years under the regime of dictator Enver Hoxha and where religious harmony and mixed marriages are the norm.
Seventy percent of the population are liberal Muslims, the rest are Christian Orthodox and Catholic.
But Muslim groups in Shkoder rejected the local council plan for a Teresa statue, saying it "would offend the feelings of Muslims."
"We do not want this statue to be erected in a public place because we see her as a religious figure," said Bashkim Bajraktari, Shkoder's mufti or Muslim religious leader.
"If there must be a statue, let it be in a Catholic space."
Posted by Robert at March 30, 2006 10:08 AM
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"If there must be a statue, let it be in a Catholic space."
Like Rome.
Posted by: JanuaryMan![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 30, 2006 10:12 AM
Mother Teresa had more goodness in her little finger than the entire muslim world has all put together. Who cares what the muslims think. Let them get aggravated.
She has done more good for the world in the short span of her life than ole mo did in 1400 years.
Put the statue up.
Posted by: freewoman at March 30, 2006 10:15 AM
Seventy percent of the population are liberal Muslims
20 quid to those who DONT spot the irony.
Posted by: Vikrant_Camberleykar at March 30, 2006 10:37 AM
Is liberal muslim an oxymoron?
Posted by: freewoman at March 30, 2006 10:40 AM
"The dispute is unusual for Albania, where religion was banned for 27 years under the regime of dictator Enver Hoxha and where religious harmony and mixed marriages are the norm."
People have commented on this before: How the MSM always talks about how religious disputes are unusual in Muslim countries. You see this a lot regarding Pakistan, where Shiites and Sunnis are said to generally live together in harmony, except for the periodic mass murder. Yes, religious harmony is the norm in Albania, except when religious minorities ask to be treated with fairness and dignity.
Posted by: Howard, Fine & Howard at March 30, 2006 10:43 AM
Oh yes, a truly good person. We can't have a statue of her around (and we all know that representations of the human form are forbidden in islam) Goodness is not valued in islam, only blood and gore.
Posted by: Carolyn2 at March 30, 2006 10:52 AM
Does'nt the quran have something about "fairness and dignity" in it? My bad, it's "death and destruction" I was thinking.
Posted by: JanuaryMan at March 30, 2006 10:55 AM
Query re Shqperi: just a few years ago, one was told that the Christians constituted about half of the population. Now they are said, in the article above, to constitute 30% of the population. What happened? Did all the Christians leave? Did they all move to Italy, and become members of the malavita? Or is something else going on?
Posted by: Hugh at March 30, 2006 11:25 AM
Vikrant_Camberleykar: what they should have said was "nominal Muslims". The ferocious Hoxha regime really managed to uproot any kind of organized religious body in the land, and most Albanians came out of Communism with only a vague idea that, in the past, their families had been Catholic or Orthodox or Muslim. It often happens that when Albanians (whose main cultural influence has long been Italian TV) discover what Islam really entails, they "convert" to Christianity. Nonetheless, the usual bunch from Saudi Arabia and similar staunch allies have been making headway among the usual suspects - anti-Westerners, disaffected youth, the criminals that Albania produces with sickening fertility, and social odds and ends.
Posted by: Paolo at March 30, 2006 11:29 AM
Perhaps they should give "equal time" and also erect a statue of a Muslim altruist. If only they could find one...
Posted by: Know Your Enemy at March 30, 2006 11:50 AM
I saw a bizaare documentary about Albania a few years ago. It featured the son, or maybe grandson of King Zog, who returned from exile willing to be king of Albania if they wanted him. They didn't. Matters were complicated by a pyramid selling scam which had impoverished quite a few people.
But it was Boy Zog's bodyguards who were a fascinating bunch. To a man they had Brian May hair (good) Iron Maiden t-shirts (very good) and two kalashnikovs (not so good) each. I think most of them now live in in the YMCA in east London.
at March 30, 2006 12:07 PM
Throw a burka over the statue.
Posted by: JanuaryMan at March 30, 2006 12:50 PM
Granny Granny!!
I think that, with Brian May hair and Iron Maiden tee-shirts, you may finally have come up with two cultural (okay, very loosely defined) references that will stump Hugh! Serves him right for making me have to look up "malavita." I suspect my first hunch, bad water, will not be correct.
Posted by: longtime lurker at March 30, 2006 1:06 PM
saying it "would offend the feelings of Muslims."
So what doesn't?
Posted by: Yojimbo at March 30, 2006 1:13 PM
Mother Teresa is a rather intimidating 4′ 10″ woman ... for a muslim male.
Posted by: Jack at March 30, 2006 1:14 PM
saying it "would offend the feelings of Muslims."So what doesn't?
Hang on, I can answer that - just about anything it seems:
Adverts Banned Because The Word "Muslim" Offends Muslims.
There we are. It's everything.
Posted by: Yojimbo at March 30, 2006 1:48 PM
Yojimbo-
You forgot mirrors.
Everything, backwards.
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Since Mother Theresa essential wore a burqa, it is the fact that she wasn't a good quiet dhimmi that irks the Albanians, not her appearance.
All competition for the [potentially-free] human mind is banned by Koranic teachings.
Can't have people thinking for themselves.
Then they might see through the scam of Islam.
Distractions from the ritual hypnosis-reinforcement endanger the Muslo-mesmerists (AKA imams, ayatollahs and mullahs).
The only thing that could be better would be a statue of Mother T. with a 9 year old girl at her side. Maybe named Aiyesha?
Posted by: profitsbeard at March 30, 2006 7:07 PM
Since Mother Theresa essential wore a burqa
What rubbish, cant you differenciate between Saree and Burqa?
Posted by: Vikrant_Camberleykar at March 30, 2006 8:13 PM
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