A scandal is brewing in Germany, although there’s not much about it to be found in the English-language media. News stories concerning the incident have appeared - for example, this one in The Daily Telegraph - but they only give a bare-bones description of the event. It’s an official press-release version, describing a feel-good Multicultural occasion when the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Bernard Kouchner, his French counterpart, did a little off-key musical number in a recording studio with a Turkish-German pop singer.
Nice moment. “We are the World”. Music will bring us together. Etc., etc.
What these MSM stories won’t tell you is the background of the pop singer these two political bozos joined up with for their Terpsichorean moment. Muhabbet - he seems to have only a single name, like Cher, Sting, or Madonna - is not your average Turkish-German rap singer: he has this nasty little habit of promoting violent jihad in his songs.
I first became aware of this story a few days ago through the German blog Politically Incorrect…
…Muhabbet apparently is touted as some sort of integration wunderkind: He’s a UNICEF-representative for education, and a frontman for the anti-violence campaigns of the ministry for family and education. He flies on the minister’s plane and was dined by the chancellor, Angela Merkel…
A vitriolic jihadist who works for UNICEF? So much for the UN!
Kouchner accepted the position of UN administrator in Kosovo in the aftermath of the Kosovo War. But as thesearticles reveal, Kouchner stood by and did nothing as the KLA, Albanian narcoterrorist/jihadists affiliated with al-Qaeda, fought among themselves, endangered UN personnel, and slaughtered or expelled most of the remaining Serbian population of Kosovo.
In the major Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter we have recently been reading investigative reports by Maciej Zaremba (probably Sweden’s most well known and respected investigative journalist) on how the UN has acted in Kosovo. Since Mr. Kouchner for a while was the UN’s High Representative in Kosovo he is to a large extent responsible for the development there. And the UN has failed miserably according to the articles in Dagens Nyheter. Corruption has been widespread, especially so among some companies from presumably less corrupt countries, as the UK and Iceland. After countless billions of EUROS there is almost nothing to show for it in Kosovo, except for fancy cars driven by foreigners and brothels visited by the same foreigners.
Mr. Zaremba shows how the French government saw Kosovo as a chance for French companies to make money. Below follows my quick and imperfect translation of a part of Mr. Zaremba’s text; the quotes within the text are from Mr. Zaremba…
When Bernard Kouchner lands in Kosovo in the summer of 1999 there is no mobile telecommunication. German Siemens and French Alcatel submit one offer each. A panel of local experts select Siemens. The offer is the cheapest and it is not colonial. At a fixed lump sum the Germans promise to build a network for Kosovo. The French offer says the network would remain French property and the country code of Monaco would be utilized.
What happens? Bernard Kouchner, Kosovos legislator, head of government and head of justice, all in one person, replaces the UNMIK director of post and telecommunications, an Albanian, with a certain Pascal Copin, who in turn awards the contract to Alcatel. It is the only feasible solution, claims Copin, because only Alcatel (in a collaboration with Monaco Telecom) can provide Kosovo, not a formal state, with a country code.
Result: Seven years later Kosovo boasts the worst and most expensive telephone system in the region, concludes the European Council. Yet every time a Kosovan lifts the receiver, money rattles into French and Monegasque bank accounts, and we are not talking about small money. Close to a hundred million euros over the years, more than Swedens annual aid to Kosovo…
We have long complained about the U.S. news media and its failure to inform the public about the Clinton Administration’s legacy of anarchy and mayhem in Kosovo. The news media in the U.S. has been virtually silent about the ongoing genocide against Serbs and other minorities who continue to be victimized by terrorists associated with the “disbanded” KLA and its sympathizers in the U.N./KFOR occupation.
Over the past few months, though, the level of bloodshed has increased enough that news of it begins to trickle through the blockade in the mainstream U.S. news media. In a ‘Newsweek’ interview May 15, Bernard Kouchner, the U.N. official in charge of the occupation of Kosovo, even admitted, “Apparently a Serb has a 20 times greater chance of being a victim of a crime than an Albanian does.” But the tone of the Newsweek interview made it clear that neither Kouchner nor the magazine’s interviewer were unduly concerned about this fact…
Clearly, Kouchner has sided with the Islamists all along!
So why did Nicholas Sarkozy appoint Kouchner as foreign minister?
Was it cluelessness?
Or was it appeasement?
Or, perhaps, was it because Kouchner knows where the bodies are buried?
This link offers the RAND Corporation study that Muslim websites have been complaining about lately.
For example, Planet Grenada says that it “explicitly lays out a divide-and-conquer strategy for transforming Muslim societies… a strategy which plays so-called fundamentalists, traditionalists, modernists and secularists against one another.”
This study came out in 2003, and I hadn’t seen any mention of it before. But now, all of a sudden, there seems to be a lot of buzz about it in the blogosphere. Any idea why this report is attracting so much attention at this time??
Page xiii (Acknowledgements) of this report credits Zalmay Khalilzad, formerly the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, and currently the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. I am certainly no fan of Khalilzad, to put it mildly - he is a poor replacement indeed for John Bolton - but then, had it been up to me, the UN would never have been founded in the first place. Thus far, aside from the corruption, deception, looting, and bullying that the UN has fostered, it has simply been one more arena for making war and calling it peace.
If you know anything further about why the RAND Corporation study is suddenly attracting notice, please comment here, or use this form to send email.
Foehammer’s Anvil: For President: Not Who But Why Islam should be a featured issue in every US federal election debate. Why isn’t it? Everyone, it’s time to follow Foehammer’s lead, have some courage, and demand to know exactly where each candidate stands on the issue of resisting Islamic expansionism. (Obviously, we’re all in this together. So if you’re a citizen of a country other than the US, it’s time to start asking those same questions of candidates in your own country!)
Dhimmi Watch: Indonesia sentences 41 Christians to FIVE YEARS in prison for proselytizing Where’s the outrage, everybody? More to the point, why do we allow Islamists from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere to come to the US to proselytize, and to radicalize their young followers? Nothing in the Constitution requires that we admit foreign nationals and foreign money for this purpose. It makes no sense - especially in light of the fact that no one is allowed to deliver the peaceful message of Christianity in Muslim lands. Also see:
NGOs appeal to UN Secretary-General and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to condemn infamous preaching of criminal hate against Jews by Lebanese TV affiliated to the Speaker of Parliament.
Atlas Shrugs: AMERICA: BARBARIANS AT THE GATE Learn why it’s time to stop taking in Muslim “refugees” from ANY part of the world. We are at WAR, and the US State Department is on the wrong side! Here’s where to protest this insane policy:
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, is substantially correct, but I would go much further and say that there was no justification for the anti-Serb policy even during the Milosevic era.
And to all those who dare to claim that Kosovo “independence” is inevitable, I have this to say:
NO WAY! The Albanians in Kosovo are mostly not native to the province, having infiltrated and/or invaded from Albania at various times during the past century - most notably by having participated in the Nazi occupation of Serbia.
To allow them to remain in Kosovo is to ratify and to reward the evil deeds of the Third Reich and of the Communist regime that followed.
Posted by Julia Gorin under Republican Riot, June 30th 2007 01:26:27 PM
Dear Readers, I wrote an article titled “The ‘Successful War’ we Lost in Kosovo” for American Legion Magazine, the publication of America’s largest veterans organization. Because its articles aren’t available online, I’ve scanned it in. Here are the links, from page 1 to page 6 (though the article is not a full six pages):
Not too many people still remember Al Gore’s role in this. But Al Gore is equally culpable because - as far back as July, 1992 - he was a major instigator for the Clinton Administration’s misguided war against the Serbs that made this whole debacle possible. It should surprise no one that he, too, was awarded the same prize in 2007. Obviously the fix is in!
