As far as I'm concerned, the salient portions of the Gorin article I published at JW are the links to info showing that the KLA was trained by Al-Qaeda.

I also find that in Totten's piece, "We are Muslims, but not really," is a quote that precisely illustrates my point about how Wahhabis and other jihadists present themselves as pure and true Muslims, and moderate Muslims do not have any effective comeback -- in fact, they often, as in this case, grant the jihadists' point on that even while not following them. My contention has always been consistent on this: that even in a secularized nominal Muslim population (eg Kosovo), granting that point leaves the door open for the radicalization of those who decide at some point that they wish to recover their faith or live it more fully. There is no Moderate Islam for such people to get into -- no Reformed Islamic Mosque to go to, no history of non-literal understandings of the Qur'an and Sunnah. The only Islam they can recover, should they choose to recover Islam rather than being "not really" Muslim, is the supremacist variety.

Does this mean that the secularized Kosovars cannot be depended upon as American allies? Time will tell, but their vulnerability to jihadist recruitment proceeding on the basis of the jihadist claim to Islamic purity cannot be ruled out as unappealing to them forever, precisely because their own cultural Islam lacks a theological foundation within Islamic tradition.

I may blog about all that. I may not.

But a few things:

I do not "idolize" Julia Gorin.

It is not a sign of "GoV/Atlas-Shruggs' insanity," or of some secret or incipient neo-Nazism or white supremacism, for me to publish Gorin, or to be skeptical of how much we can depend upon the secularized Muslims of Kosovo. I see in that thread a good deal of name-calling against Julia Gorin, and one rather convoluted post about a picture of a man who poses as Hitler, but no substantive refutation of her information about the KLA connections to Al-Qaeda.

And the long quote about Albanians attributed to me, to which someone takes issue, was not written by me.