Google Skenderbeg and you will understand why I use his name; the fight of his day is the same fight of our day. It’s funny that Gjergj Kastriot, a Catholic Albanian, is known by his Turkish military title. It’s also funny that he used his training by the Turks against them. Maybe we need more politicians and military leaders like him.
Why do Freepers refuse to separate religion from nationality? The Serbs are just as guilty as the Albanians and there are Serbs who are mohamedans just as there are Albanians who are Christian. To the Albanians, this is not a religious issue at root, it is a national/ethnic issue. There are muhamedan zealots (indoctrinated abroad) who use the situation to their advantage, but this extremist view is not held by the generally secular public. If I find another non-native Serb/Alb Freeper who has spent more years working inside of Serbia/Albania and interacting directly with the population as I have, then I will be more willing to discuss the merits of the religion/nationalism issue. Until then, we will only get ethnic bias and BBC history on this board.
I am finding that in the Freep world there is only one opinion-the one that comes from the MSM. If you do not agree with the popular opinion, then instead of debate, you get accused of being a Nazi or a blind nationalist for X country. I am probably the only person who thinks the Serbians share blame with the Albanians over the Kosovo issue.
I know what the Albanians do in their spare time, and I don’t defend them. If I had more power in ‘99, I would have let the two ethic groups fight to the death. All the Kosovar Albanians would have fled to Albania (which many did), and Kosovo would now be 100% Serbian. I have no doubt of that. I also believe the fighting will restart as soon as NATO withdraws, which is why NATO is still there 9 years later. The choice to interrupt was wrong, but now we will have to live with that choice.
I am not an Albanian, btw, nor do I have Albanian ancestry nor do I keep friendly ties with Albanian nationals.