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| From the left while live on Euronews Albania: Alma Lama, the journalist and Migena Balla wearing a headscarf |
Alma Lama, the former ambassador of Kosovo in Italy, says that the wearing of hijab by Muslim women represents submission.
During a debate in Euronews Albania regarding the request for the return of hijab in schools for Muslim girls in Kosovo, the former ambassador argued fiercely with the lawyer Migena Balla, who called it a right of Muslim girls to wear the headscarf.
According to Lama, the headscarf or hijab is a symbol of political Islam, which, as he said in Kosovo, is being financed by the Arab world and supported by a part of Kosovo politics.
"The point is that the headscarf is a symbol of political Islam, which is based on sharia and is a political movement. Political Islam has political goals to spread in different countries, including Kosovo, and the headscarf is the most visible symbol of this agenda, it is also the religious teaching in schools, which makes this movement inconsistent with the western values on which the State of Kosovo it is based and built. Political Islam aims to enter institutions and schools. Funds from the Arab world aim to finance this agenda in Kosovo, where we have MPs and a prime minister who supports it," Lama said.
Hijab is a recent debate in Kosovo, where many people think it is funded by the Eastern Muslim world, in the context of their influence in the Balkans using religion, many people also include the project of the Port of Durrës in Albania as part of the Muslim unfluence.
We emphasize that the Muslim religion in the Balkans came with the Turkish invasion in the 14th and 15th centuries and among the Albanian lands it is more widespread than the rest of the Balkans for various reasons. Some point out that this is related as a counterweight to the Orthodox Slavic world.
Mention here King Zog of Albania banned the hijab by law in 1937.
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