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Entry: Kosovo on the Thames Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/kosovo_on_the_thames#17437 Post contents: My membership in the League of the South, my support of the breakup on big nation-states into a myriad of Venices and Switzerlands, my opposition to Nationalism and racialism, is well known. About Kosovo and Albania I confess ignorance. Nor am I able to get the information that I need, given that in Nationalist conflicts, if not in all wars, the truth is usually the first casualty. So help me out, folks: 1. What percentage of Albanians and Kososvars attend Friday Mosque services? 2. Do the spires of Minarets dot the cityscapes? Do Muezzins call 5 times a day to prayer? What percentage of the population of Albanian and Kosovo practice the Salat? 3. Is alcohol sold in these countries? What is the per capita retail sale? 4. Is pork raised and sold in these countries? What is the per capita retail sale? 5. May a man have 4 wives in these countries? 6. What percentage of the women are veiled in these countries? 7. Is Sharia observed in these countries? Are adulterers stoned? The hands of thieves cut off? 8. What percentage of the population in these countries can read the Islamic sacred texts in their original language? 9. What percentage of the male population in these countries is circumcised? 10. What, according to reliable opinion polls, is the percentage of the population in these countries that support Osama, Sept 11, jihad? Or are members of al-Qaeda? 11. What percentage of the population in these countries have observed the Hajj? Or have made the pilgrimage to Mecca whatsoever? 12. What percentage of the population in these countries confess the Shahadah as their principle and foundation? 13. What percentage of the population in these countries are faithful practitioners of the Zakat? 14. What percentage of the population in these countries practice the Sawm during Ramadan? 15. What percentage of the population in these countries are Shia? Sunni? I ask responders to cite their sources; or if their evidence in anecdotal or just personal <i>ad oculos</i>, to say so. Just trying to do my homework. Sent at: 2009 01 08