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Entry: Kosovo, Russia, and the Last Grasps of American Unipolarity Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/kosovo_and_the_last_grasps_of_american_unipolarity#18420 Post contents: @ San Fernando Curt LOL! @ Sid Cundiff Sid, you keep asking for evidence but then you ignore answers that people provide to you. Let me quote John Zmirak's reply to you (to which you never replied, btw) from his "Kosovo on the Thames" column last week: "Dear Sid, Ultranationalism (sometimes of a religiously zealous sort) is hard to distinguish from orthodox Islam, and often survives its decline--and can provoke its resurgence. Robert Spencer more than demonstrates that in his works (see his excellent Web site, http://www.jihadwatch.org)." I'm sure you don't accept John's reply as evidence because he didn't provide N references to peer-reviewed studies and census data. By the same token, you probably don't recognize that Northern Ireland conflict was about religion (Catholics vs. Protestants--what does that have to do with religion?), or that the Bosnian war was about religion (Moslems vs. Roman Catholics vs. Eastern Orthodox). You can't separate religion from other aspects of people's identities if they themselves see religion as an integral part of self. That those conflicts are about ethnicities does not preclude that they are also about religions. In some instances, as in Bosnia, religion is the only basis for ethnicity. I'm really puzzled as to why you so often refuse to see the obvious. Sent at: 2008 07 09