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March 29, 2006
Albania: Muslims Object To Mother Theresa Statue
In another sign of the intolerance of Islam in the modern world, the inhabitants of a city in northern Albania are campaigning to prevent a statue being erected to Mother Theresa (pictured), who died on 5 September, 1997, aged 87.
The Scotsman has the story. It also appears in the left-wing and greedy New York Times but one must pay to view their articles online.
The reasons are not because Mother Theresa (real name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) though an ethnic Albanian, was born in Macedonia, not Albania, nor the fact that her face resembles a scrotum or a walnut, and may frighten small children.
The brouhaha is taking place in Shkoder, and the reasons for the protestations are that Mother Theresa is a "religious figure", and that would offend Muslims. Religion was officially banned for 27 years by Enver Hoxha's dictatorship, and such militancy among Muslims appears to be a recent development.
There are numerous "mixed" marriages in the country, which has a population of 70% "liberal" Muslims, and the rest being Orthodox and Catholic Christian.
Despite her not possessing the most visually pleasing facial features, Mother Theresa's charitable work, in particular her work with the poor and the sick at her Missionaries of Charity home in central Calcutta, India, (where she died) is internationally recognised. Her deep faith and her commitment to the oppressed has led to her being placed on the fast-track to sainthood by the Vatican.
The objections to a proposal by the local council were articulated by the mufti of Shkoder, Bashkim Bajrajtari. Other residents complained that there was a plot to portray the town as a Catholic enclave. Recently, the city's Muslims prevented crosses from being erected on nearby hilltops.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 29, 2006 9:59 PM
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