A New Muslim Nation in Europe?

Kosovo, a former province of Serbia, caused international furor when it declared its independence

By Dale Hurd
CBN News Senior Reporter

While the world community works out the international implications of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1343.

Since 1999, the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2656 Christian Serb minority has been attacked by the Albanian Muslim population.

In 2004, Muslim mobs, angry at the murder of three ethnic Albanians, attacked Serb enclaves, destroying hundreds of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=702.

This week, Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu tried to calm the fears of the Serb Christian minority.

“We understand their fear, but there is no reason to fear,” he said. “They will be part of the process as they were before.”

But the Serbs may be targeted more for their Serb ethnicity than their Christian faith.Peter Kuzmic is a Slovenian Evangelical and human rights advocate. He says Kosovo’s Muslims are moderates, who do not want a religious war.

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2008-02-21