Kosovar Extremists Beat Iman For Preaching Wrong Brand Of Islam

It's not just Christians, Hindus or Buddhists that Islamic extremists are after, they also have no tolerance for fellow Muslims who preach or practice what they consider the "wrong" kind of Islam; hence all the sectarian religious violence in Iraq and elsewhere.

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Extremists want it their way or no way, and the only way they see fit to get their way is through violence and intimidation. Sometimes it works, and people through fear slowly succumb to their demands. Others fight back, even if it means death. But trying to get your way through violent means is just the cowards way. That's exactly what Imam Hamit Kamberi, in Kosovo, called his attackers after being beaten up by 4 Muslim extremists, at his mosque in Mitrovica after midday prayers, yesterday.

“I heard some people close the door of the mosque and they started beating me,” Kamberi is quoted by the Pristina daily Express as saying. Kamberi said that these people have for some time been asking for his dismissal because they were not satisfied with the religious rituals he was conducting.

“I respect the rules of the Islamic Community, according to Medh’hebit Hanefi,” Kamberi said. “They want other rituals,” he added.

Kamberi said that one of them asked the imam for a conversation, when from behind his back the others started to hit him on the head. “The attack was foxy, because a brave man comes forward and not behind your back,” Kamberi said. “They had short trousers,” he added. He said that one of the people had a long beard, while the others wore unusual clothes for Muslim believers.

And this isn't the first Imam to be attacked. Apparently there have been others, and in spite of condemnation from Kosovo's Islamic Community, the attacks continue.

The head of the Islamic Community in Mitrovica, Jetish Berisha, said that attacks on imams continue in Mitrovica, noting that the imam in Drenas was attacked last year.

“I think that again, the same people, with the same ideology, are continuing such attacks,” Berisha told Express. Kosovo media have over the last year reported many similar attacks against Islamic leaders.

The problem with extremists is they want the world to revolve around their way of thinking. There is no middle ground, and rather than finding a mosque that preaches their brand of Islam they want the mosque they are attending to change. Rather than moving to a country that conforms to their stricter religious requirements, they want a country to change.

It's only through defying their demands will we be free from their dangerous exploits.