A veil to cover Albin Kurti's election defeat

It says: Merro Base

Kosovo's parliamentary majority decision to officially pave the way for covering girls over the age of 16 is a political decision to ensure the support of political Islam in Kosovo. Any empty discussion or debate over human rights, and even worse compared to Western countries, is just an attempt to capitalise on this political decision. It's just Albin Kurt's trying to sell you more expensive than that.

Albanians are a nation established between East and West with a majority European Muslims who have made a difference because of their coexistence with other religions and, above all, with the establishment of national identity over religion.

If Albanians remove this identity, if they treat them simply as a Muslim nation or Kosovo simply as a Muslim country, then you have violated the national identity of Albanians. This nation's identity has a fundamental feature of moderate pro-European Islam and coexistence with other beliefs. The argument that the decision rests on individual rights to wear the headscarf as a sign of honour for Muslim faith is a slide towards political Islam for electoral needs.

True, in some Western lands headscarves have been allowed in formal schools or environments, but in those Western lands, Muslims are few in society and foreigners in their nation. They are respected simply as minority freedoms. If Kosovo and Albania formalise this approach to Islamic identity in secular public institutions of the state, then they have violated the identity of Albanians and after that we are not talking about a European nation of Muslim faith, but of a Muslim country that lives in Europe's side. And this is a national punishment that “paterio” Albin Kurti is making the Albanian nation. Among other things is a rift that develops between Albania and Kosovo and a negative pressure on Albania on the issue.

But it's not just Albin Kurt's fault. Kosovo seems afraid of political Islam. Civil society, journalists, intellectual writers openly and others who oppose this national assassination seem to just wash their mouths saying we're against it. While this is a political movement intended to compensate for Albin Kurti's electoral defeat last fall, where you were halved votes, any other political party, but especially the LDK, the PDK and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, should reject it in principle by waging battle against it. Otherwise the damage will be even greater, not that it will add votes to Albin Kurti from a part of religious fanatics, but that it will put Kosovo in a popular referendum on such a delicate issue and divide it into two different worlds and two different approaches in relation to the West.

If they have a credit to the political parties that came out of the KLA, both in Kosovo and Macedonia it is the Western approach they have had towards the secular state and keeping political Islam away from the state. This step of Albin Kurti is the step of an ambitious, now failed man who seeks a headscarf to cover his political defeats. This is not a common law for forests or pastures, it's not a law for any concession or fund theft, it's a step that distorts the national identity of Albanians and it can't be attributed to a political majority that actually doesn't even exist anymore.

She should stop late. Even so does Albin Kurti as a job and initiative, since he has won the hearts of partisans of his head and what he has done. But at least not to further damage Kosovo and the national identity of Albanians.