1. No.
2. No, again -- not at this stage of the game. I've heard that the primary "religion" of Albanians is "Albanian", meaning that they follow the Kanun which is an ancient code of conduct that Albanians adhere to regardless of religion. It's a a very primitive, tribal code of behavior that set up blood feuds and the like, killing more Albanians than anyone or anything else ever has.
I note that DioGuardi is an Italo-Albanian Catholic.
Yes, and DioGuardi had no ethical problem whatever using his US government connections to create a new (Albanian) Muslim State in the Balkans -- even after 9/11.
Joe DioGuardi is an Albanian first and foremost. He's an Albanian before he is a Roman Catholic, is Albanian before he is an Italian and is even Albanian before he is American --the latter of which makes him completely unfit to ever hold Congressional office again!
Joe DioGuardi is an Albanian first and foremost. He's an Albanian before he is a Roman Catholic, is Albanian before he is an Italian and is even Albanian before he is American
Unfortunately, that sounds just like every other ethnic American politician. Only us rednecks get left out.
Even if the Albanians reverted (and again, they were chr*stians before they were moslems) that wouldn't necessarily bring peace. Ethnic groups who share the same religion sometimes hate each other's guts (Black and white Baptists, Pat Buchanan and the Mexicans, Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats, and even inter-Orthodox clashes among Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, and Greeks).
I honestly used to believe that religious beliefs were supposed to come before anything and everything else, and my very hard meeting with reality has left me very, very cynical and depressed.