The Serbian who became Muslim

Ali al Tamimi says;

There was one brother, who was a Serbian who took shahadah while he was in the USA high school. This was before the fall of the Iron curtain in the communist nation. He used to hide his Islam, his father was a Major diplomat in the Yugoslavian embassy. He once gave da’wah to his 12yr old cousin and told her to hide her Islam, but one day she slipped it to his family that he and her had accepted Islam. As soon as his father found out, his father ordered that he be sent back to Yugoslavia, and was forced to join their army (the communists wanted to spread their communism, including Afghanistan etc.) When he was in the army, his father told the army to watch his son, and make sure you torture him (they beat him there) and watched him that he wasn’t Islamic in his activities. So the brother went for about 2years in the army and was watched constantly, he said he couldn’t even do wudu and pray, so he prayed with his heart during the time.

After 2 years, when his military service was over, he came back home and hid his religion. After a weeks of staying home, he said to his family, “I used to be a crazy young kid back in those days, it was just a phase i was going through [etc].” His family still doubted him, so they would feed him pork, so he would eat it, and when he ate – he’d go upstairs and make himself sick to take it out of his body. He had a girl neighbour and told her to come to the house, to pretend that he had a girlfriend, and after told her to go away. He did all this to show his parents that he really wasn’t Muslim.

After a few weeks of this, he asked his parents if he could go back to the USA to continue his education. They told him that he could go back, but he would have to stay in his uncles house who was a doctor in the USA. He said okay, and moved there to continue his education. He stayed there for about a month, and his uncle kept an eye on him to see if he did any Islamic activities. He wouldn’t contact any Muslims, and the uncle kept an eye on him. His parents kept phoning to check up on him, and his uncle said that he’s acting normal, like going to school, coming back home and studying etc.

So when the brother felt that they stopped watching him, he left his uncles house, and went to the Muslims and called his parents in Yugoslavia, and said; “Look, I was always Muslim, and I will always remain a Muslim, and I’ll never leave this religion.”

His father called the Yugoslavian embassy who called the United States government who called the Immigration services, naturalisation service, and they went to all the different Masaajid [mosques] to look for him and arrest him to send him back to Yugoslavia, but some of the Muslim brothers hid him in their houses and protected him for a while. Then they sent the brother to Medinah, and from there he went to Afghanistan, and he became a famous fighter in Afghanistan (most likelythis occured in the 1980s).

While he was in Afghanistan, his mother had a longing to see her son. She was a journalist and was allowed to leave Yugoslavia, and do an interview for the Communists against the Muslim fighters in Afghan, “in the defense of the communists of the Afghanis.” She wanted a way to meet with her son. She went to Pakistan, then to Peshawar, and goes to the mountains where the Muslim fighters are, to find her son.

Her son talks to her, gives her a Qur’an, gives her da’wah [invitation to Islam], and tells her why Islam is the truth. And… she take’s her shahadah and becomes Muslim. She then writes an article in the Yugoslavian-European newspaper on the Journey to Islam.

This brother went through alot, just to preserve his religion. We read events of the Salaf sacrificing for their religion, but we shouldn’t forget that there are people from every generation who give alot for the sake of Allah, and we shouldn’t be left behind…

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Why would he not attend his own trial? Apart from the opportunity to take the piss.

An Inconvenient Truth Teller
From health-care reform to Afghanistan, Joe Biden has bucked Obama—as only a good Veep can.
Article: Newsweek

Joe Biden had a question. During a long Sunday meeting with President Obama and top national-security advisers on Sept. 13, the VP interjected, “Can I just clarify a factual point? How much will we spend this year on Afghanistan?” Someone provided the figure: $65 billion. “And how much will we spend on Pakistan?” Another figure was supplied: $2.25 billion. “Well, by my calculations that’s a 30-to-1 ratio in favor of Afghanistan. So I have a question. Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we’re spending in Pakistan, we’re spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?“ The White House Situation Room fell silent. But the questions had their desired effect: those gathered began putting more thought into Pakistan as the key theater in the region.

Back in March, Biden stood alone. When Obama announced that he was launching a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan—to develop the country and make its civilians safe from the Taliban—Biden was the only one of the president’s top advisers to seriously question the wisdom of this course. The vice president even authored a short paper, called “Counterterrorism-Plus,” outlining his case for a better-defined, more limited mission. The president listened but promised to review his policy again only after the Afghan election in August. Biden “didn’t get a lot of traction internally,” says a White House staffer familiar with the debate who did not want to be named discussing internal deliberations.

In the early days of the administration, Biden was a bit of a joke in some quarters of the White House. He was never the buffoonish character portrayed by late-night comics, but his off-message blurts were the source of eye-rolling and some irritation among the president’s men and women. None of the gaffes was particularly damaging, but aides who’d been with Obama through the campaign knew that the president valued very tight control. Biden himself seemed wounded by the sniggering. Asked about his gaffes by a NEWSWEEK reporter last spring, he responded a little defensively, “A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.”

Biden does make a good point; “A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth”, however he better watch out. With THIS administration – telling the truth just might get you nixed. The article continues:

…Biden can still be irrepressible and long-winded. But in the Oval Office he has learned to be more disciplined without losing his edge. His persistence and truth telling have paid off, and he’s found a role for himself. On Afghanistan in particular, the vice president’s once lonesome position now has high-level support. The president himself seems to be looking for a middle way—not pulling out of Afghanistan, but at the same time not sending in the more than 40,000 troops requested by the U.S. ground commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Biden has also played the gadfly on health care. He hasn’t advocated a particular course of action, but rather has challenged the assumptions of others. “He says the things that others at the table don’t want to talk about, or which they find uncomfortable,” says White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel…

So, let me get this straight… Barack Hussein Obama wants to find a “middle way” in Afghanistan – but he doesn’t want to send the troops the backup and support they need; and doesn’t want to bring them home – out of harms way. What is his plan? To give them all a death sentence? Sounds like it from where I’m standing. Seriously BarryO, your mom must have sucked down a couple dozen bud-lights while you were in the womb. There is something seriously wrong with the way your brain functions. I’m just being honest. You can call it a “gaffe”.

After the election, Obama spoke of wanting a “team of rivals” in the White House. That sounds very Lincolnesque, but in the wired world of cable and bloggers, rivals (or, more typically, their staffers) can quickly become leakers and troublemakers. Presidents can soon come to feel embattled and besieged; the natural inclination is to surround the presidency with yes men and true believers. Biden is a truth teller, almost congenitally so, but he is no backstabber. There is an appealing, slightly vulnerable quality about his eagerness to please. He may run off at the mouth, but he is known for his loyalty. “If there were no gaffes, there’d be no Joe. He’s someone you can’t help but like,” says Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. It is significant that when Biden dissented on Afghanistan policy in the spring, he did not go running to the press with his opinions, and he quickly got on board with administration policy.

Uh, I’m sorry, Newsweek, but Barack Hussein Obama is surrounded by 98% yes men. Nancy Pelosi? Rahm Emanuel? Hillary Clinton? Gibbs? What about every media source that isn’t FOX News or Rush Limbaugh? What about the millions of mindless sheeple that STILL roam the streets chanting “yes we can” or “o-ba-ma”… “mmm mmm mmm”.

…At first Obama may have felt that he’d gotten more than he bargained for. The two men are Mutt and Jeff, warm and a little verbose versus precise and a little too cool. After serving as a committee chairman, wielding his own gavel, Biden had trouble adjusting to the bureaucratic strictures of the vice presidency. “This is the first time I’ve had a boss in 37 years,” he told NEWSWEEK in May. To his staff, he would sometimes confess that he had talked too long or said the wrong thing at a meeting with the president—that he had to sharpen his approach.

Less than a month into the Obama presidency, Biden forthrightly, if unwisely, declared that the new administration’s economic plan had a “30 percent chance” of failure. Asked about this at a press conference, Obama smiled thinly and answered, “You know, I don’t remember what Joe was referring to, not surprisingly.” Obama’s staffers, who were lined up along the back wall at the presser, snickered along with the press.

Biden felt insulted. Through staffers, Obama apologized, protesting that he had meant no disrespect. But at one of their regularly scheduled weekly lunches, Biden directly raised the incident with the president. The veep said he was trying to be more disciplined about his own remarks, but he asked that in return the president refrain from making fun (and require his staff to do likewise). He made the point that even the impression that the president was dissing him was not only bad for Biden, but bad for the administration. The conversation cleared the air, according to White House aides who did not want to be identified discussing a private -conversation.

Hey Obama, Biden was being KIND when he said your moronic “economic plan” had a 30% chance of failure. A more accurate estimate would be… oh… say… 80% 90%? You see, because our economy has gone to shit. Stimulus what what? It’s sad that BHussein can only offer up an apology through his staffers, but will talk all the shit in the world by himself. I’m also sorry to report that “dissing” Biden for being the only one IN this cracked out administration doesn’t really do much harm when you step back and look at the trainwreck as a whole. They’re doing a fine job of harming themselves without throwing Biden in the mix.

…To demonstrate their palship (and dampen the rumors of disaffection between them), the president and vice president were photographed at one point, sleeves rolled up, eating hamburgers together. Biden worked on discretion. Asked by NEWSWEEK as he flew on Air Force Two in the spring if he could describe any moments when he had influenced the president’s thinking, Biden stared down at his hands for a few seconds. “I think I should let him tell you that,” he finally said. “Good answer!” exclaimed his relieved communications director, Jay Carney.

It’s all a charade. BHussein HATES Biden, and I’m MORE than sure the feeling is mutual. Biden hates seeing the destruction of his country, he hates not being taken seriously, he hates being associated with this reign of error, and BHussein Obama hates anyone who opposes his massive government takeover, anyone who is bold enough to tell the truth about what’s going on, and anyone who doesn’t mindlessly nod and agree with whatever bullcorn that spews from BHussein’s foodhole.

Biden can get carried away gushing on about all the time he spends with the president (“Four hours a day!”) and his close relations in the administration. (“Hillary Clinton!” Biden exclaims, throwing an arm in the air. “We’ve been friends for 20 years! Confidants!”) But in fact his many friendships forged over the years are highly useful to Obama, who had spent just four years in Washington before becoming president, and half of that on the road campaigning. Biden “knows all the players,” says Emanuel. On a trip to Europe and the Middle East this summer, Biden joked and guffawed with political leaders across two continents. He was also able to privately deliver bad news and the occasional scolding in a way the president never could. With the Russians in particular, the president and vice president played good cop–bad cop. Obama publicly declared that he wanted to establish a new era of good feeling with the Kremlin while Biden reminded the Russians that Washington was watching their territorial ambitions and human-rights record.

…In March, when Obama made his decision to back a counterinsurgency strategy, there was not a searching examination in the White House over the potential cost—in bodies, money, or political capital—or the real prospects for success. During the presidential campaign, Obama had declared that Afghanistan, not Iraq, was the right war, and so the assumption at the White House was that the president would have to make good on his words. He had a request for at least 30,000 more troops on his desk, and he wanted to get enough of them to Afghanistan in time to be of use for the August election. (He ultimately approved a troop increase of 21,000, to a total of 68,000.) Only Biden vigorously questioned whether America would have the patience or resources for a full-scale counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan over the long run. Obama said he’d review the situation again after the election.

In June, Obama appointed General McChrystal commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan (relieving Gen. David McKiernan, who was deemed to be insufficiently creative and forward-leaning by the Pentagon high command). The general was given 60 days to make a recommendation on how to implement the counterinsurgency strategy. McChrystal wrote a classified 66-page report (later leaked to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post) calling for more than 40,000 additional troops and a rigorous attempt to cut down on civilian casualties. McChrystal warned that the situation was “deteriorating” and that, without reinforcements, “failure” was a real possibility.

But DUDE, Haven’t you HEARD?? Obama isn’t interested in victory!! And ANYONE who still, at this point in time and after seeing THIS much damage happen to our country, thinks that BHussein Obama will “make good on his words” is an idiot anyway. What’s that about unemployment? Huh? Stimulus? No tax hikes for who now?

…Biden has been incorrectly characterized as a dove who wants to pull out of Afghanistan. In fact, according to his “Counterterrorism-Plus” paper, he wants to maintain a large troop presence. He also favors a greater emphasis on training Afghan troops—and defending Kabul and Kandahar—than on chasing the Taliban around the countryside, and he wants more diplomatic efforts to try to peel away those Taliban who can be bought with money or other inducements (like political power). He is leery of massive attempts at nation building and more hopeful that the United States can work with local warlords than with the corrupt and inept central government in Kabul. On a grander strategic level, he wants to tilt the administration’s efforts more toward Pakistan (to “make the problem PakAf, not AfPak”), reasoning that Al Qaeda—the real threat to the United States—is hiding out not in Afghanistan but in nuclear-armed -Pakistan.

….Long Washington experience has made Biden a political realist, if not a bit of a cynic. Shortly after 9/11, he described to NEWSWEEK’s Michael Hirsh how he had been summoned to the White House for a heart-to-heart with George W. Bush. Bush reassured him that the United States would not abandon Afghanistan after routing Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Bush 43 even indirectly criticized Bush 41, who had turned away from the Afghans in 1989—after the United States had covertly helped the mujahedin rout the Soviet invaders. Biden warned Bush that the commitment would cost billions and take years and a large multinational force, but he was encouraged by the president’s enthusiasm. As Biden was leaving the White House, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer asked him to stop outside at the press stakeout to show that Bush’s policies had bipartisan support. Biden agreed….

You see, because Bush, like him or not, was not a pussy. He understood the IMPORTANCE of victory and that’s exactly what he was after. Unlike this pantywaist little queerbait that occupies the White House NOW. Yeah, the one that only gives a shit about his image, his own selfish desires, and doesn’t give two fucks about the rest of us. Our troops, regular citizens, taxpayers. You can’t deny it. He’s a selfish, egocentric douche that has NO idea what he’s doing. NO idea WHATSOEVER.

On trips to Afghanistan with congressional delegations, Biden gradually grew disillusioned with President Hamid Karzai, who had seemed like such a heroic and hopeful figure in 2002. At a dinner Biden attended with Karzai and several other senators in early 2008, Karzai obstinately refused to concede that his government was riddled with corruption. Exasperated, Biden threw down his napkin and walked out.

Yes, this itty bitty little paragraph is important. Biden has made TRIPS (that’s plural, folks) to Afghanistan!

The president relies on Biden’s judgment, but he may be more interested in having his veep play the devil’s advocate. One senses, from both his track record and his recent remarks, that Obama is comfortable with having Biden push from one side and General McChrystal push from the other. Last week the president told congressional leaders that he did not plan on drawing down troops in Afghanistan, but by the same token he was rethinking the full-scale counterinsurgency strategy proposed by McChrystal. Obama has shown a penchant for splitting the difference, for finding the middle way on tough policy issues.

Some administration officials, led by Biden, appear to hope that American forces can rely more on counterterrorism operations—attacks by Predator drones and small elite units on terrorist hiding places—to hold Afghanistan together and defeat Al Qaeda. But critics call this “splitting the baby” and say it’ll never work. As a senior civilian Pentagon official points out, “No one has more experience with counterterrorism than McChrystal,” who ran black ops in Iraq and Afghanistan for five years. “If there was an easier, better way, he’d be pushing for it,” says this official, who would not be quoted discussing internal deliberations. Opinions within the intelligence community are split, according to current and former operatives. Some back McChrystal’s view that the only way to obtain the intelligence necessary to conduct counterterror operations is by a counterinsurgency campaign that protects civilians. Yet a significant minority of intelligence officials, at the CIA and elsewhere, doubt that more troops will make much difference; some think the additional forces could be counterproductive.

Senior military officials backing McChrystal have not given up hope that Obama will fully support the general, not Biden, and order tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan. It is impossible to know with certainty where Obama will come out on this; the strategy meetings will go on until atleast next week. But the president will have confidence that whatever he decides, he will have challenged all assumptions and thrashed out all views. He can also be confident that he won’t be second-guessed by his vice president…

No, it is not impossible to know where Obama will come out on this. He will come out AGAINST American victory; and show “sympathy” and an eagerness to “reach out” to our enemies.

(Yes, I shortened the article; but for a good laugh go read the four pages they have at NewsWeek)

A French football fan attacked in Belgrade earlier this month by an armed mob has died in hospital, officials say…. From BBC News. Full story

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Det är många som undrar hur serbiska låter. Är det sant att en vanlig serbisk konversation låter som ett bråk på gatan?

Ja

Jag vet inte vad ni tycker men för mig är det uppenbart att Quentin Tarantino är serb.

Per here te pare ne ekranin e kinemase shqiptare eshte shfaqur filmi ‘Muaji Mjalti’, nje bashkepunim kinematografik shqiptaro-serb.

Regjisori serb Goran Paskaljevic sqaron se ngjizja e ketij prodhimi te perbashket ka bere qe kete film ta pagezojne me titullin “Muaji Mjalti”. Ky film eshte mbeshtetur nga kompania DigitAlb dhe do te transmetohet ne festivalin e Venecias dhe ate te Torontos.

Filmi i cili zgjat 95 minuta, ka ne qender fatet e dy cifteve, nje shqiptar e nje serb, te cilet nisen drejt perendimit ne kerkim te nje jete me te mire.

Endrrat e ketyre te rinjve mund te realizoheshin ne perendim, por per kete u duhej jo vetem kurajo por edhe fat.

Ketu ceshtja komplikohet,cifti shqiptar mbahet ne portin e jugut ne italik, ndersa ai serb ne kufirin hungarez.

Ciftet mbahen si te dyshuara nga policite e vendeve perkatese, pasi dyshohen se kane marre pjese ne nje incident te ndodhur ne Kosove ku jane vrare dy ushtare italiane te OKB.

Regjisori serb ka konstatuar se bashkepunimi mes trupes se aktoreve serbe dhe shqiptar ka qene i forte, cka ka bere qe aktoret te cilet realisht nuk jane takuar asnjehere kane shprehur deshiren e madhe per te bashkepunuar edhe ne filma te tjere.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Hempel

http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/rg-263-report.html

“The craziest criminal the world had ever seen”: Dr. Sauerbrach on Corporal Schicklgrueber, aka Hitler.

CIA: the CIA did have a document obtained from a foreign government (presumably Britain) in April 1945 indicating Waldheim’s status as an intelligence officer within the German army group operating in the Balkans. In a letter to Congressman Stephen Solarz in 1988 the CIA’s director of congressional affairs apologized for not providing this information years earlier, when Solarz had requested any such evidence; the CIA had not searched its own files adequately. Uhhuh.

Waldheim was the head of the UN, and the President of Austria. Even Simon Wiesenthal overlooked his crimes, for some reason; perhaps he didn’t shoot anyone, he just worked at a desk. He was good friends with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Waldheim was serving in the area of Yugoslavia, a country no one seems to care about. Eighty percent of the Yugoslavian Jews died in the Holocaust. The worst camp in the Balkans was called “Jasenovac“. It was in Croatia.

The Serbs cooperated with the Nazis under Nedic, a Quisling. The Jews of Belgrade were rounded up by the Serb police and handed over to the Gestapo and SS, making Belgrade the first city in Europe to be declared “Jew-free“. Fortunately there was a resistance to the Nazis, called Tito’s Partisans. The Chetniks however, fought for Nedic; when it was clear they were losing, they merely switched sides and became good communists. The Bosnian Moslems also aren’t blameless; they had a division that was in the SS. Then all of the Yugos started killing each other.

Otto Skorzeny: Nazi Network in Spain: CEDADE. Free as a bird. Mucho gracias a Senor Franco. Franco realized that the Nazis would lose; he sent the “Division Blue” to assist the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, he made good friends with NATO, and was left in charge of defeated Spain, its republican campaign almost forgotten.

Harster: was implicated in the murder of 104,000 Jews. War Criminal

He was captured by the British Army where he was transferred to the government of Holland and tried for war crimes.In 1949, he was convicted and sentenced to 12 years for his role in the deportation and execution of Dutch Jews. He was, however, released in 1953. Why did the Dutch let him go?

After the war, he again became a civil servant in Bavaria, until he was retired due to public and media pressure in 1963. He kept his full pension. In 1967 he was tried and sentenced to an additional 15 years in jail for deportation of Jews to concentration camps at Auschwitz and Sobibor concentration camps. He was given credit for time served and was pardoned in 1969. He died in 1991.

Six years in jail for assisting in the deportations. 38 years or so, a free man. 

Hoettl: (Austrian) advisor to Nazis during Holocaust in Hungary. Never prosecuted. Died 1999. It’s the ones no one has heard of who escaped justice the best. CIA, Gehlen (German secret service, riddled with former Nazis), and Soviets all knew who he was, and used him. OR did he use them?

All these SS officials had very personal stakes in earning American goodwill before the end of the war-they were all severely implicated in the Holocaust, the theft of Jewish property, and the seizure of Italian property as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nazi_war_criminals_released_early_from_prison

More early release Nazi pond scum. I believe they’d be all 100 years old, so I assume that they are mainly dead.

(From Chapter 19, “Kosher Hooks” by S.I. Fishgal, http://stores.lulu.com/fishgal)

“I (Ukrainian) have a murky origin like you (Jew). Many barbarian tribes migrated across the steppe before the founding the first Russian state: Indo European Cimmerians, Scythians, and Sarmatians.”
“You don’t look like an oriental nomad, Paul Danilovich.”
“That’s perhaps because Germanic Goths migrated to the steppe from the west in 150 AD. Then Huns did from Mongolia and called their nation Great Bulgaria. Khazars threw the Bulgars out. Some of them went across the Danube and mixed with local Slavs. They populate today’s Bulgaria. The rest moved up Volga River and converted to Islam.
“In 552, China drove Avars from Mongolia up to Hungary. Franks destroyed them in 796. In 737, Magyars related to Finns, came out of the northern forests to Ukraine, raided Western Europe, and turned to Hungarians.
“Turkish Pechenegs migrated from Central Asia to Ukraine in 860 and lived in her south till 1122. Then you should know the rest.”
“I do.”
“In the late fifth century AD, the dissolution of the Hun kingdom and the Western Roman Empire left an uncivilized vacuum in Europe. The Slavs expanded east, west and south, harassed the Byzantine Empire and settled partially in Greece.”
Slavs broke down over great distances into three smaller groups: the Western Slavs (Poles, Czechs, and Slovaks), Southern (‘Yugo’) Slavs (Slovenes, Croats, Bosnians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians and Bulgarians), and Eastern Slavs (Russians and later Ukrainians and Byelorussians).
In the eighth century, Vikings, or Varangians – barbarians related to Swedes, Angles, and Northmen – went to the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Eager to get Byzantine’s and Arabs’ fabulous treasures, they traveled down and settled along the rivers coming from inland, and conquered peaceful, disorganized Slavs. The Varangians completely assimilated into their Slavic subjects and probably had common Indo Germanic origin anyway, whatever Herr Hitler’s opinion was on that subject.
Around 950, the Slavs of the Novgorod (‘New City’) city threw out the Varangians, but failed to govern themselves and invited them back. Novgorod became Russia’s infant city and state called Rus. Later Duke Oleg brought other Varangian city states under his authority and chose Kiev as the new capital as it was closer to Byzantine. Greeks, however, were not crazy to trade with him. Oleg sent 2,000 ships with 80,000 Vikings to Constantinople to change their minds. Most of the Byzantine forces then were out of town, fighting Arabs, Bulgars and Pechenegs.
The Greeks drew a chain across the harbor to keep the hostile ships out. Oleg beached his ships a few miles away and mounted wheels on the boats. A good tailwind rolled them to Constantinople’s suburbs. From the terrified Greeks, Oleg got the nice trade agreement and ransom.
Then the religion divided Slavs further. Slovenes, Croats, and all Western Slavs chose Catholicism and the Latin alphabet. The rest did Orthodoxy and the Cyrillic alphabet invented, as you know, by Missionaries St. Cyril and St. Methodius. They combined Latin, Greek and invented a few new letters.
“If the closest neighbors were Catholics, Muslims and Khazar Jews, then why did our Slavs choose the Greek Orthodox religion?” Roma asked. “Cruel and lecherous Duke Vladimir had seven wives and eight hundred concubines. Yet, he converted his state to Christianity?”
“Russia was well behind other nations then. He asked the Jewish Khazars why the Jews didn’t live in their native land. ‘Angry for our sins, God scattered us and gave our land to the Christians.’ Naturally, the Jewish god that made Wandering Jews out of his people couldn’t be Vladimir’s choice.”
“The Jews gave the wrong answer,” Roma said. “They could say God didn’t want to keep all his eggs in one basket and dispersed them around the world for safety. Germany is the best example.”
“You’re very inventive, Rommy.”
“Oh, it’s obvious. What did the Muslims offer?”
“Volga Bulgar Muslims promised that in the next world, Mohammed would give each man 70 fair women.”
“What would he give to each woman?” Roma interrupted. “Seventy athletic men?”
“Let professors of atheism explain that. As to Vladimir, he did not like the fact that Muslims were teetotalers. ‘Drinking is the joy of the Rus,’ he said. ‘We cannot exist without that pleasure.’”
“I see,” Roma said. “Drinking is Slavs’ inherent habit.”
“For millenniums. But Vladimir turned Catholics away too. They scared him with fasting. Our fathers accepted no such principle, he said. That’s why he got the Orthodox faith from Greeks. Like Khazars, Vladimir wanted neither the pope’s, nor the caliph’s domination. Besides, the Byzantine emperor offered his daughter if Vladimir baptized. When the emperor did not fulfill the promise, Vladimir took over the Byzantine city of Kherson in the Crimea and got his bride.”

Ana Ivanovic withdrew from the Madrid Open because of a knee injury, but expects to be fit in time to defend her French Open title.

The seventh-ranked Serb is struggling with inflammation in her right knee. Doctors have ordered her not to play for a week.

Ivanovic said in a statement Friday that the knee has bothered her since a Fed Cup match last month. She said, “It’s become more painful with each match, so I decided to go and see a specialist in Munich.”

Ivanovic says there is “no danger” of her missing the French Open, which begins May 24.

Serbs ruled the area of Povardarje (FYROM) and later Macedonia, without Thessaloniki, from late 13th and most of the 14th century. In this video it is explained that there are no Serbian sources from that era mentioning “Macedonians” of present-day Pseudomacedonian type.

This video presents a collection of statements by Krste Petkov Misirkov (1874-1926), considered among Pseudomacedonians a pioneer of their modern national idea, which reveal his true ethnicity and his true view on Slavs of present-day FYROM.

FYROMian TV station Sitel falsifies the spoken words of Serbian Byzantologist Gojko Subotić by adding the adjective “македонски (makedonski)” (“Macedonian”) in the subtitle of his statement on medieval Slavic teachers Clement and Naum.

Ivan Stoilković, a Serb politician in FYROM, reacts to the public glorification of Croatian Nazi songs by Ivica Georgievski, a Deputy from VMRO-DPMNE.

Arbetsdomstolen: Mannen hävdade att bolaget provocerat honom till att säga upp sig genom att trakassera honom på grund av hans etnicitet. AD anser inte styrkt att några nedlåtande uttalanden fälts och anser inte att bolagets erbjudande till två säljare att genomgå svenskundervisning på arbetstid är diskriminerande.

Dragoslav Arsén, av serbiskt ursprung, var anställd i en bygghandel under åren 1998 – 2002. Han fick på nytt anställning hos bolaget 2003. I november 2007 hade de anställda personalfest. Efter viss alkoholförtäring uppstod en diskussion där en av de anställda påpekade för en annan att han borde lära sig bättre svenska. Dragoslav Arsén inflikade då att även han själv borde gå kurs i svenska, men bara om han fick göra det på arbetstid.

Bolagets ägare erbjöd under festen de bägge anställda att studera svenska på bolagets bekostnad. Dagarna efter personalfesten talade ägaren med Dragoslav Arsén och han bad även denne om ursäkt om han på något sätt förolämpat densamme. Dragoslav Arsén var sedan frånvarande en vecka och när han återkom sade han upp sig.

AD anser inte att det går att dra någon säker slutsats om vad som sades under personalfesten. Det står dock klart att det fördes ett samtal om behov av svenskundervisning och att det blev en upprörd stämning som ledde till att Dragoslav Arsén lämnade bordet. AD anser inte att det klarlagts mer av betydelse än att bolagsägaren vid middagssamtalet föreslog bland annat den Dragoslav Arsén att gå en kurs i svenska för invandrare. Påståenden om att han även skulle uttalat sig nedlåtande om serber anser AD inte styrkta. AD anser dock styrkt att någon, oklart vem, sagt till Dragoslav Arsén att han inte borde tala serbiska inom familjen.

AD anser att bolagets förslag om svenskundervisning generellt sett är förmånligt, men att det beroende på hur det framförs kan uppfattas som kritik av den anställde. Under en personalmiddag med flera anställda närvarande är enligt AD kanske inte den lämpligaste tidpunkten för ett erbjudande som kan uppfattas som kritik av den anställdes svenskakunskaper.

AD anser inte att ägarens yttrande under middagen innebär att bolaget handlat på ett sätt som strider mot god sed på arbetsmarknaden eller som på annat sätt kan betecknas som otillbörligt. Bolaget har således inte agerat på ett sådant sätt mot Dragoslav Arsén att hans uppsägning ska betraktas som en uppsägning företagen av bolaget.

Gällande frågan om bolaget genom ett trakasserande uttalande diskriminerat den anställde på grund av hans etniska tillhörighet konstaterar AD att Dragoslav Arsén inte uppfattade erbjudandet om svenskundervisning som kränkande. Ägarens erbjudande kan därför inte betraktas som en sådan diskriminering som avses i 9 a lagen om åtgärder mot diskriminering i arbetslivet.

Arbetsdomstolen dom 27-09
Mål nr A 49-08

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AD, Mål nr A 49/08