I am disappointed with European intellectuals [including Kadare]

Academy analyst Rexhep Qosja has responded to a letter written by philosopher and publicist Bernar-Henri Levy signed by 29 writers and other publicists.

In this letter, Qosja explains, for many reasons it is called for the European Union to be protected, so that the natives of this Union can protect it from what he says, intellectually from the increasingly vocalized destroyers being seen and heard in several European institutions.

Qosja says she has been surprised, not by the contents of that letter, but by matters that were silent.

For this reason, as a reader of the works and writings of some of the signatories of this letter, I can say: I'm disappointed”, Qosja writes.

Full response I Rexhep Qoses:

Reaction to the Letter of 30 Writers and publicists

After several days I noticed and read the letter written by the philosopher, writer of the publicist Bernar-Henri Levy, signed by twenty - nine writers and other publicists, including five Nobel Prize for literature winners.

This letter calls for many reasons for the European Union to be protected, so that the natives of this Union can defend it intellectually from the increasingly vocal and heard in some squares and in some European institutions!

I did not expect that this high - meaning letter would surprise me as I was surprised not only with some of the thoughts on it but more with some of the issues silent.

So as a reader of the works and writings of some of the signatories of this letter, I can say: I'm disappointed.

I'm disappointed because they raised their voices too late.

I am disappointed because they spoke up only against the evil that, as they stress, could happen in Europe after the May elections for the European Parliament if they win those who want to revive a dark past.

I'm disappointed because the bad things they say can happen in Europe after the May elections, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are already happening in some European countries.

I am disappointed because they silenced some of the other evils that are happening in Europe and the tragedies that are taking place in southern Europe.

I am disappointed because they did not say a word of regret over the greatest tragedy of the century that we have entered - the tragedy of war victims, which in some countries in the Middle and Near East are taking place even under European political and military auspices!

I am disappointed because no word of regret writes about the barbarous ruins of three ancient civilizations in those Middle and Near Eastern countries that are taking place even under the political and military auspices of some European countries!

I am disappointed because no word of regret was spoken about Islamophobia being brought up in Europe, also driven by terrorism, this terror, antihuman evil, that they are even doing in some countries that have given them shelter, individuals, and groups of Islamic faith by misusing Islam for their own political, ideological, and other purposes.

I am disappointed because these thirty prominent writers and publicists, who appeared as a clever conscience in New Europe, did not notice how classical colonialism in some parts of Africa and Asia has already developed into modern colonialism - neocolonialism.

I am disappointed because the Stateist requirements, heard in Barcelona, identified them with the nationalist explosions and xenophobes that are being heard for as long as they are being heard, especially in Budapest, Warsaw, Vienna, Dresden, and elsewhere.

I am disappointed because politics “that does not deserve intelligence and culture” called it only the policy that will take place in Europe if in the May elections for the European Parliament wins “the destroyers of the European idea” and forget that such policy is already prospering in some European countries, especially in the former communist countries of the European Union!

I am disappointed because Europe was named “also abandoned by two great allies who in the past century had twice escaped suicide: one beyond La Mansh and the other across the Atlantic” and, when it writes so, these two allies, wrongly imagined as EU opponents, imagined them in the same political context as Putin's Russia, who wants the collapse of this Union of Europe, acting where it could for that ruin! Interestingly, in this letter her signatories, deliberately or unwillingly, reminded us of the stand created at the time of Napoleon Bonaparte when it was said: England is for Europe what Shaitan is for mankind!

I am disappointed because in the letter the political manifesto was not explained what the European Union should be, I believe, could wound “the exhumers of the European idea”: Europe will be of national, cultural, religious or Europe and European totalitarianism; it will be Europe and equal nations or Europe and two rings of different equalitys of its national components; Europe, as the most desirable European, Carl Marcus Gaus, says, of many languages or Europe and only a few languages, that will teach us the barbarian; Europe cleared of all prejudices of the past or Europe in which Skin's former racism will replace Culte's racism?

The European Union is the idea, is the project, is the greatest ideal in European history. It is the political, cultural, civilist, human, ethical promise that the people of Europe will never again experience world wars, nor Balkan wars, nor Berlin Conventions such as that of 1878, nor the Conference of London as those of 1913 and 1915, nor the Conference of Peace as the Paris and 1919, nor the <x0rendrende <x1ndrex1) of fascist, Stalinist, Nazi; it is a promise that the peoples of Europe bring confidence to freedom, equality of their dignity and well-being of their offspring.

Albanians want such Europe today, and they love it very devoutly by trying to bring its values into their lives and by trying to meet the conditions for Albania and Kosovo, as they are today or, even better, united, to become its members as soon as possible.

Happy Europe, dear!