churchofME wrote:For this discussion let's set aside the Palastinian question and Lebanon which have generally been regional conflicts.
Yeah, lets set aside the one single major rallying focus for the Islamic cause. Just for argument's sake.
churchofME wrote:The most worrying ones for Europe in the future are bosnia and kosovo. [..] Both of them are fairly lawless areas run by fundamentalists
Bosnia is run by fundamentalists?
Reality check: High Representative Paddy Ashdown basically has veto power over all fundamental government questions at hand there.
Under him, of course, you have the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina: three men, of which one (Christian-Orthodox) Serb, one Muslim and one (Catholic) Croat.
The national government meanwhile is composed of five parties, including the main Serb, Croat and Muslim parties (SDS, HDZ and SDA).
Otherwise, the country is divided into two constituent parts: the Republika Srpska, where Serbs dominate government and parliament, and the Federation, currently ruled by a Croatian President, a Muslim Prime Minister and Serb and Muslim Vice-Presidents.
Run by Islamic fundamentalists?
churchofME wrote:who have either supported, advocated and in the case of kosovo actually committed brutal acts of terror against christians.
Yup. There have been brutal acts of violence in Kosovo by Albanians against Serbs, since the war ended. Dont know how religion, rather than nationality/ethnicity suddenly gets to be the label for the violence here, but sure.
Of course, that was after the Serbs committed brutal acts of violence against Albanians, on a much larger scale. Doesnt make any of it better, but perhaps fair to include...
Meanwhile in Bosnia, the "brutal acts of terror" that raged so ruthlessly in all directions (Serbs against Muslims, first of all, then Croats against Muslims, Muslims against Serbs, Muslims against Croats) have pretty much ceased since the war, if mostly thanks to international oversight.
Again I dont see how that then gets translated into
Muslims "supporting and advocating" violence against Christians - period.
Last news item
I heard was - just this week! - about how they
defused a bomb that was set to explode during the commemoration in Srebrenica of the thousands of Muslims who were captured and killed there in the war.
If it had not been discovered, that would have been a major terrorist attack
against the Muslims, which could have killed a lot of family members who had been lucky enough to survive back then.
churchofME wrote:Both places seek independence and are actively seeking entry into the European Union.
Bosnia-Herzegovina
is already independent. (Sorry, but do you have any clue what you're talking about?)
churchofME wrote:Furthermore for some unknown reason both areas are currently supported and propped up by europe and america.
To be more precise, it is the international organisations in which EU and US play a dominating role that actually
administer the places. In Kosovo it's a UN administrator (currently Søren Jessen-Petersen) who has far-reaching veto powers over the government of the country, just like Ashdown does in Bosnia.
The "unknown reason", by the way, probably has something to do with Europe and America having bombed the fighting parties in both places into a cease-fire a few years ago ... we took over control back then and are still there.
churchofME wrote:Bosnia and kosovo are the only places on the list where we are not actively hunting down islamic terrorists.
Its a trojan horse in europe!!
Ehm ... international administrators (in Kosovo appointed by the UN, in Bosnia appointed by a Steering Board of 55 countries and international organisations) are actually in
charge of these countries - and that's bad, because we shouldn't be propping these countries up, right? But at the same time the accusation is that we're
not in there, hunting for terrorists? <scratches head>
Reality check: just last March, those international administrators actually apprehended the
Prime Minister of Kosovo and sent him to The Hague to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes.