The Arabs shamefully were whistling in the air while he Kosovar Moslems were murdered in 1999. In 1999, while Europe watched impotently, Milosevic’s forces killed 13,000 Kosovar Albanians, blew up mosques, gang-raped Muslim women, burned Albanian villages and drove one million Albanian Kosovars into frigid winter fields where they would have died of exposure without outside help. The U.S. saved the Kosovars by launching a short air war on the Serbs. The martyrdom of the Kosovar Albanians in the 1998-99 war. Of course, numerous pious, virtuous traditional Muslims were martyred by the Serbs in Kosovo. One of the most affecting moments was Halveti-Karabashi teqja [Sufi lodge] in Rahovec, Kosovo, where Shaykh Myhedin Shehu, one of the most beloved figures in Balkan Islamic culture, was assassinated during the conflict. The members of Shaykh Myhedin's community in a memorial dhikr or "remembrance of God" ritual, and his son wept. the shaykh received a decent burial, even with ...