The prime minister resembles the infamous flag merchant in the story of Ernest Koliq…

Edi Rama seems to have built a political career, where religious faith is not treated as an intimate relationship of the individual with God, but as a plastic instrument that is modeled according to the next audience.

This chameleonism, which goes from the irony of the past to the servility of today, testifies to a total lack of piety. real, replacing it with a cynical pragmatism and a kind of “trading” with sacred symbols.

In his beginnings, especially as Mayor and leader of the opposition, Rama did not hesitate to misuse the holy Qur’anic verses as tools of sarcasm and irony against political opponents. This abuse showed an arrogant disregard for the feelings of the faithful.

Today, the same person breaks fast and recites prophetic sayings with feigned zeal, not because he has undergone a spiritual transformation, but because he has understood the electoral power of the Muslim community.

This game of “God’s cards” extends to the details of his biography, which often resemble a political mythomania. Thus the claim of a few years ago that he was secretly baptized as a Catholic in 1964 – while his parents were part of the elite of the regime and close family members of the member of the Politburo, Spiro Koleka – defies any historical logic of that brutal time.

A cold analysis of the facts suggests that this is an artificial construction of the biography, designed to be sold to the Holy See and the Catholic community as a suitable political profile. Even his attempt in 1991, together with Spartak Ngjela, to create a “Christian-Islamic” party, proves that religion for Rama has always been a means of securing support through the manipulation of identities.

In the international arena, this opportunism takes on even more grotesque forms. While in Albania he talks about “interreligious brotherhood”, in the Israeli Knesset he went into an unparalleled servility, earnestly declaring that his son, who is not even 12 years old, is ready to convert to Judaism.

Such a statement betrays any claim of piety to his roots and reveals his politics: religion is a “costume” that can be changed according to the protocol of the state that visits.

So for Edi Rama, beliefs are not pillars of values, but commodities in the market of influence, thus confirming himself as a leader who knows no temple but that of power./tesheshi

Source: prizrenpost