Thomas R. Pochari
EUROPACMC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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I have some exciting news to report. The editors of the Los Angeles Times have told me that they are
interested in publishing my articles on their op/ed pages. Enclosed is my first submission, an examination of
the armed conflict in Kosovo, in the Yugoslav Federation. I do not think this conflict will be quickly resolved,
and I do not believe that the insincere American diplomacy will amount to much.... I have called this short
article....
PAN-SLAVISM AND MUSLIM MARTYRDOM IN KOSOVO
I am now writing a lengthy monograph on this subject, and you can assume that the enclosed article is a
summary of my thesis. Of course, my analysis of events is tied very closely to the subject of one of my recent
monographs, entitled*....
* The Reluctant Crusaders: The Genius of Islam and the Impotence of Wealth and Weapons
If you are not familiar with my work, allow me to introduce myself. I am an American scholar and
writer, and while I have been a victim of American hubris and hatred, this flattering "status" may be
changing. I just received a letter from a highly respected scholar, a professor of Islamic Studies at George
Washington University.
hi his letter to me, Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr wrote:
The analyses of Mr. Pochari are both daunting and challenging and often come to conclusions
that are opposite to mainstream thinking in the West. But his views are based on both the kind of firsthand
observation usually inaccessible to today's opinion makers and a keen sense of the analysis of causes and
relations between events, which affect the lives of humanity today. One cannot, therefore, but benefit from
his writings whatever one's own views might be about the fundamental, historical and political issues
about which he writes.
I leave you to consider the implications of Albanian anger in the Balkans. Saying that these
Europeans are suffering from "ancient hatreds" is to mock the very real struggle which has been taking place
in the Balkans since the Berlin Wall came crashing down in 1989. hi my suppressed 1994 treatise on the
cold war I predicted that American leaders would, in order to preserve American hegemony and wealth,
foment ill will and strife in the world. Is this what we are now witnessing in the Balkans? And are Albanians
useful "tools" in this cynical great power game? I will be answering these questions....
Sincerely yours
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PAN-SLAVISM AND MUSLIM MARTYRDOM IN KOSOVO
July 1998
Silicon Valley, California
In the suburbs of the Swiss capital, Bern, and in New York City, there are today thousands of
men and women discussing the new meaning and excitement of their lives. Once merely
"refugees" and "foreign workers" far from their homes in the fertile and mineral-rich fields of
Kosovo, these Muslim Albanians have forgotten neither their history nor their faith: they are
diligently preparing for another Balkan war, a war which may soon confirm the reputation of the
Balkans as a source of great power contention -- even world war.
These Albanians, who provide moral and financial support to the now world famous
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), will not, despite being called "terrorists" by American diplomats,
retreat from their duty of exploiting the growing weakness of American power. The cold war
dramatically ended in 1989, and this unleashed a torrent of diplomatic and military activity,
particularly in what has come to be known as "the soft underbelly of Europe."
Just as George Bush and James Baker revealed their naivete by vainly attempting to
preserve the integrity of Yugoslavia, the Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Bosnians, and Albanians were
quickly mobilizing armies and destroying a state held together only by the strongman Marshal
Tito; Russian leaders were discovering it expedient to attract capital rather then repel it, all the
while exposing the impotence of NATO; the European masses, which now includes the Slavs of
the East, were shaking off the hegemony of both the United States and the Soviet Union and
making preparations for a large and powerful political and economic union ~ a brilliant union, but
one which would feature systematic attacks on the southern religious insurgents, that is, the
Muslims who trace their origins to the Turkish invasion of Europe.
These historic events mean simply that we are witness to the outbreak of another Balkan
War. or rather the real Balkan War of the late 20th century. The religious war in Bosnia and
Hercegovina in the 1990s, in which modem "multi-culturalism" came to a bloody end, just may
prove to be for the Serbs the experience and training required for achieving the dreams of
centuries-old Pan-Slavism. This time the southern Slavs have the resurgent Russians standing
behind them, with other Europeans doing then" best to ignore the reappearance in Europe of
"death camps" and mass killings.
Europeans as well as Americans have pretended in the 1990s that Europeans who have
converted to Islam do not have the rights of human beings -- the right to self-defense. The weak
in history have often been exterminated, but in the late 20th century this axiom can be restated:
the faithful of Islam, who demonstrate an impressive allegiance to the words of their Prophet
Muhammad, must at best be exterminated, or at least banished -- and permanently ~ from the
European continent. Their religious insurgency must be stopped. In Belgrade the frightening
results of the Ottoman empire still resonate, and Albanians come to mind as the true source of
fear. The battle of Kosovo may have been lost to the Turks in 1389, but in the 20th century the
humiliation is greater: centuries ago the Serbs formed the majority on the valuable lands of
Kosovo and today they are a rapidly diminishing minority.
Europeans -- with Serbia, Greece. Macedonia, and Italy having the greatest motivation —
would like to return to earlier in the century, to 1913. when they conspired to occupy and destroy
Albania. Were it not for idealistic American lawyers in Washington their wish may have come
true. This Balkan War led directly to World War I, for it inflamed Pan-Slavism and its reaction in
Ottoman Asia. That Enver Hoxha, the dictator of Albania during the length of the cold war, used
this cruel history to justify his extremely harsh rul^ should not be surprising. But Europeans and
Americans should remember that Albanians are not Slavs, and that while it may have been easy to
"ethnically cleanse" self-doubting Slavs who had converted to Islam and immersed themselves in
the multi-ethnic southern Europe, this will not be the case in Kosovo.
There should be another warning. Stephen Schwartz, a Balkan expert and contributor to
the Wall Street Journal, told me with anger in his voice: "If there is one lesson drawn from the
horrors of the Jewish Holocaust, it is that a united Europe is morally obligated to guarantee the
survival — the right to prosper and flourish — of a great Balkan Muslim civilization." History is
repeating itself, only this tune America is backing away from great power contention.
THOMAS R. POCHARI COPYRIGHT © JULY 4, 1998
PROSPECTUS FOR:
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— publish periodically "country reports": monographs focused on one country and its role in the world.
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