Goal: Albanian Church to Respond to Two Catholic Extremists

Ardian Gola, professor at the University of Pristina, has reacted to the offensive and threatening statements of two Catholics from Albania, saying that the silence of the Catholic Church in Kosovo and Albania to this threat is a big burden.

Gola has said that the silence of the Catholic Church in Kosovo and Albania against calls for murder, threats of links to Anton Zefi and Louis Mark, directed to Muslims from Kosovo and North Macedonia, only add to the burden of the situation, and that it risks inevitably becoming part of such terrorising discourse, writes the Metro newspaper.

So Gola has added that the later the response, the worse, because it can produce violence and that it is not known how it will end, and that actualising interreligious hatred goes only in favour of corrupt politics.

This is Professor Gola's full status:

The Catholic Church in Albania, but even in Kosovo, it would not have to remain silent due to the public threat of two members of the Catholic community in Albania, Anton Zefi and Louis Mark, to Muslims from Kosovo and Northern Macedonia. The dance seems to have consistency and doesn't seem spontaneous.

Take into account the fact that the Church is the most clearly organized institutional structure, thus having the highest level of control of spiritual life, and not only, among Catholic believers, the silence of this threat makes the situation even more important. I expected a distance from these threats. Or at least a public statement contradicting any call for murder, lynching and massing in the name of religion and being invited to plurality, coexistence and religious understanding in Albanians and beyond. Otherwise the Church risks becoming inevitably part of such a terrorist discourse, even though the threats are not doing so in its name.

The later the reaction, the worse, because this could produce the spiral of discours violence, that's where it ends. The actualisation of interreligious hatred in Albanians goes only in favour of fourfold corrupt political leadership and different challenges to socialised situations. Massive flight of people because of financial uncertainty and law-related corruption in both countries, and it has only two clowns to stand up for Christianity. You idiot! ”