Why is there discrimination against Muslims in Kosovo?
Ninety-five percent of Kosovars are Muslim, so why do pious people face oppression?
|2020.08.26
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Could it be that EU policy discourse is at the root of this new identity-based discrimination in Kosovo?
I set out to dig deeper into the professed link between what European officials think and what Kosovar officials do about practising Muslims in Kosovo.
These domestic elites hold personal stakes in conveying an image of Kosovo that is “not actually Muslim, but at the risk of being Islamicized.”
Friedrich Püttmann
Friedrich Püttmann is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a research associate at Istanbul Policy Center. He previously worked as an analyst for the Berlin-based think tank European Stability Initiative (ESI).
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.