The director of the “Global Crisis Group”, Ilir Kulla, has stated that religious faith and the homeland are closely related to each other, while he also spoke about the danger of religious divisions in Kosovo.

Kulla was invited to the show “Matrix”, on Tëvë1, moderated by Mehmet Kalisi, where, among other things, the relationship between religion, national identity and political interests in Kosovo was discussed.

During the show, Kulla said that “without religion there is no homeland”, connecting the issue of faith with identity and the preservation of the homeland.

He also spoke about the question of which countries may be interested in having divisions in Kosovo on religious grounds. According to Kulla, Serbia has such an interest, while other countries have no interest in Albanians being divided on religious grounds.

“Only the Serbs, no one else would be interested in the Albanians being divided in religion, because Serbia has it in its historical plans, since the beginning of time, since it decided to establish its own state at the expense of the Albanians, and to ethnically cleanse the Albanians.”

Kulla said that these the topic has been analyzed earlier and connected the history of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia with the use of religion for political purposes.

“We have analyzed these topics. Only the Serbs wanted a religious doctrinal state and they were the only ones who managed to wage a religious war in the former Yugoslavia, using faith for political purposes.”

According to him, the use of religious identity for political purposes contributed to the destruction of former Yugoslavia, which he described as one of the most developed states of the time.

“And they destroyed one of the most developed states of the time, which was Yugoslavia, precisely with a war that lasted four or five years.”

Kulla’s statements were made in the context of the discussion about the influence of religion on national identity and efforts to avoid divisions on religious grounds in Kosovar society.

Source: prizrenpost