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Jeg sĂĄ nogle videoes forleden af vrede bulgarere, der jagede muslimer væk fra at bede pĂĄ gaden og brændte deres bedetæpper i ret blodige demonstrationer, og jeg sĂĄ ingen anden forklaring i vestlig presse, end at det var “ultranationalister, hooligans, etnofober, racister og antidemokrater.” Vestlige mediers udlægning var ikke til at skelne fra det slemt propagandistiske Press TV fra Teheran, og jeg blev ikke klogere, da jeg ikke forstĂĄr bulgarsk.

Først i dag ser jeg en forklarende baggrundartikel i Ottowa Citizen. Hukommelsen er lang i Sydeuropa og pĂĄ Balkan, ogsĂĄ blandt muslimer med territoriale og ejendomsmæssige krav. De er sendt ind i en ny fase i en meget gammel krig, i den er 1878 bare i forgĂĄrs. PĂĄ Down With the Janissaries! kan man se en transkription af, hvad der bliver sagt i GoV’s behandling, der er uafhængig af min.

Her oppe i Nordeuropa har vi ikke begreb om, hvad der foregĂĄr – endnu. Hold øje med den muslimske besættermentalitet og angreb pĂĄ indfødte og statens repræsentanter i ghettoerne, sĂĄ vil I opdage det før eller senere, alt taler desværre for senere. Én gang muslimsk land, er altid muslimsk land. Bare spørg Israel eller biskpppen i Cordoba. Bulgarian “anti-mosque” protests reflect historical memory

You probably don’t read a lot of headline-making news out of Bulgaria, but recent events in the Balkan country suggest we should pay more attention to the southern European state. What’s going on there may be a portent of Europe’s future. In recent days Bulgarian authorities have been confronting thousands of so-called nationalists who’ve been staging violent demonstrations in the southern European state’s second largest city of Plovdiv.

The nationalists are angered at a court-approved bid by local Muslim leaders to have an ancient mosque and its surrounding property in the nearby town of Karlovo returned to the Grand Mufti, spiritual leader of many of Bulgaria’s Muslims.

But it’s not just the future of one mosque that’s at issue. The Grand Mufti has lodged more than two dozen claims to properties lost to the Muslim community a century ago following the expulsion of the last Ottoman Turk overlords from the country in the late 19th century.

The Mufti’s claims have sparked a series of often violent demonstrations, of which the one late last week in Koslovo was only the latest. Opposition to the Grand Mufti’s claims is particularly strong in Karlova. The town is the birthplace of Vassil Levski, a Bulgarian national hero — he’s been dubbed the Apostle f Freedom — who in the late 1800s led a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman tyranny.

The protestors behavior, both at the mosque and at the nearby Turkish consulate, was certainly ugly what with the rock-throwing crowd chanting xenophobic sentiments — “you are not Europeans, you are barbarians” was a favourite — as it smashed mosque windows. They have rightly been condemned for the pointless violence.

Perhaps, though, some historical understanding is needed. To be sure, Muslims have been increasingly targeted by ultra-nationalist groups in recent years following significant increase in refugees in Bulgaria from the Middle East and North Africa, particularly following the multiple failures of the Arab Spring. But Bulgarians’ memory goes back much further. They also remember that for five centuries – from the late 14th century to the late 19th century – their country was part of the Ottoman Empire and their Turkish rulers were often brutal.

As a one commentator puts it, “The Ottoman rule was a period marked by oppression and misgovernment and represents a deviation of Bulgaria’s development as a Christian European state.” Only in 1878, after years of revolt, did Bulgaria gain its liberation from Muslim rule.The current protests, I suggest, reflect this remembrance. The nationalists view the Grant Mufti’s land claims as imperialism-by-stealth, an attempt to Islamicize modern Bulgaria and slowly and quietly restore the lost Caliphate in Europe.

In Spain, for example, a growing Muslim population has for years demanded that the Roman Catholic Church effectively turn over the Cordoba Cathedral so it can be a mosque once again. Certainly, the building was once a mosque, when Islam dominated the Iberian peninsula – although Muslims conveniently ignore that it was an Arian Christian Visigothic church in the early 7th century before the Moorish invasions – but it has been a church for nearly eight centuries, ever since King Ferdinand III took the city of Córdoba in 1236 during the long Reconquista campaign to rid Spain of the Moors. (Only in 1492 was Spain finally freed of the Muslim imperium.

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Peter Andersen
10 years ago

Der er også en underlig vinkel på situationen i Centralafrikanske Republik. Kristne bedriver etnisk udrensning på muslimerne. Ingen spørger hvorfor, men hele MSM står på nakken af hinanden, for at få FN og internationale styrker til at gribe ind. Samtidig bliver kristne, i alle de omkringliggende lande, både forfulgt og myrdet.

Nogen må jo vide hvad det store billede er, men ingen tør åbenbart tale om det.

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PFEP
10 years ago

Snart set pĂĄ Nørrebro, Gellerup eller Ishøj, eller for den saken i RosengĂĄrd i Malmö…
HĂĄll till godo och var beredd pĂĄ detta…

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