4 hours agoAnalyst Maliqi: Kosovo ahead had harmony, we may now be heading towards Cold War
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)On the eve of Christmas, prominent political analyst Agon Maliqi has made a statement in which he clearly implies that Kosovo society is becoming more inlerant than it once was. He has remembered the first ten years or more when in Pristina and other Kosovo countries for Christmas had a festive atmosphere. This [...]
He has remembered the first ten years or more when in Pristina and other Kosovo countries for Christmas had a festive atmosphere.
This isn't seen this year. Maybe it was the pandemic, but it wasn't so much seen in years past.
Then came a time when some terror began on any sign of secularism and religious harmony in public space. I remember how the red - colored posters of the dead were torn apart by banners, and in social media there was no peace from extremists who intended to impose on us all the rule of religion over public space (even a non - Biblical version of the tradition of Islam in Kosovo) which provoked him even a secular defense response that occasionally deepened the rift. ” writes Maliqi, passes Periscope.
He says at the moment he does not know whether our society is heading towards inter-religious peace and harmony or toward a cold war (like).
We remember that in Kosovo there is a significant increase in hate speech and religious character failure.
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It has been a time after the war when the holiday atmosphere in Pristina became almost as much as for Bajram ʹ not as with family visits, but with naja, concerts and cultural programmes. City in the evening full. There were events, not religious, but merely secularized festiveism, or even solidarity with the Catholic minority, as signalling the provision of national identity over secular premises. Then came a time when some terror began on any sign of secularism and religious harmony in public space. I remember how the red - colored posters of the dead were torn apart by banners, and in social media there was no peace from extremists who intended to impose on us all the rule of religion over public space (even a non - Biblical version of the tradition of Islam in Kosovo) which provoked him even a secular defense response that occasionally deepened the rift. Now it seems to me that we are at a new moment that it's hard to define -- obviously not like the first one, but it's gone too far. I don't know if we're going to peace or we're in a cold war. May harmony and Merry Christmas, however, abound not only as religious events (for believers) but also as moments of freedom and pluralism in public space.
