Islamic Studies Professor: Going to Syria involves more than just economic causes

Hamiti says the whole world knows that Kosovo has always co-existed between different religious and interAlbanian communities. However, according to him, there has recently been a tendency for religion to be abused by Albanian enemies' allies and manipulated with it to weaken the Albanian trunk.

The professor of Islamic studies says that with the unification of Albanians in the wars in Syria, it has been a tendency to manipulate religious elements among us.

Who's manipulating? ...Of course, foreign agendas, because terrorism as phenomena is always connected to politics and... So we strongly believe that external trends have been and have not stopped and will not stop at misusing the religious element to take water to the foreign mill. And that goes on and on, but I wouldn't have called it the tendency of destabilising, but the tendency of Kosovo's enemies, to present Kosovo as a country that is producing terrorists, or fundamentalists... have greatly ruined the image of the Western world, in front of civilized countries, in front of liberal countries, yet I think Kosovo society has managed to become aware that it has been a form or way of manipulation for foreign interests<1>, he said.

In addition, he said that the killings called on in the name of religion and going to war centers are related not only to economic causes but to beliefs of doctrine.

It says that the responsibility for orientation of a religious - based society falls on religious leaders, since it suggests that the latter direct a good society or not. The same during the talk, he says, should take into account the country, the circumstances and cultural level of that country.

It's a problem to control people what to talk about because freedom of speech, freedom of practice of religion is guaranteed. But we must be careful as religious leaders to work with all those who legalize in the shrines at the mosque. And once they return from their studies to have intensive conscious courses for their country, for the circumstances in which they live, so that we don't leave them uninformed and untrained in this direction”, Hamiti said.

All religious committees, including the Islamic Community of Kosovo(BIK), Hamiti says that in Kosovo they are not legally regulated. Including the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Islamic Studies professor estimates it is closely linked to the daily policy of the Serbian government. Big problem with him is still BIK. Work at this institution, he says, is continuing with old status, without a re-arrangement within new circumstances. He says it's not normal for such a religious committee to have a contact office with the country's institutions.