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To: Cronos
Hey muslim/terrorist APOLOGIST.... this From Joan:

"Those are the statistics for Albania. In Kosovo, they are almost all Muslim. The Christians are more to the south of Albania, near Greece"

113 posted on 03/18/2004 4:58:26 AM PST by Lion in Winter
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To: Lion in Winter
Hey Dyslexic, read the stats. Read a little:

Most of the conversion's to Islam took place in the lowlands of the Shkumbin River valley, where the Ottoman Turks could easily apply pressure because of the area's accessibility. Many Albanians, however, converted in name only and secretly continued to practice Christianity. Often one branch of a family became Muslim while another remained Christian, and many times these families celebrated their respective religious holidays together



As early as the eighteenth century, a mystic Islamic sect, the Bektashi dervishes, spread into the empire's Albanian-populated lands. Probably founded in the late thirteenth century in Anatolia, Bektashism became the janissaries' official faith in the late sixteenth century. The Bektashi sect contains features of the Turks' pre-Islamic religion and emphasizes man as an individual. Women, unveiled, participate in Bektashi ceremonies on an equal basis, and the celebrants use wine despite the ban on alcohol in the Quran. The Bektashis became the largest religious group in southern Albania after the sultan disbanded the janissaries in 1826. Bektashi leaders played key roles in the Albanian nationalist movement of the late nineteenth century and were to a great degree responsible for the Albanians' traditional tolerance of religious differences.

115 posted on 03/18/2004 5:03:17 AM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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To: Lion in Winter
Lying in Winter said: Hey muslim/terrorist APOLOGIST....

YOU... learn something before you come on a conservative site and plead the case of islamic albanian terrorists and criminals.

Tsk Tsk, and I guess you supported Slobo's genocide against Slavic Catholic Croats too? Note: I call it Slobo's genocide, not the Serbian, as most didn't support him. Then he went for the Kosovar Albanians, and tried to paint them as Islamic terrorists. Well, they're not, but if he had been allowed to persecute them then they would have been infiltrated by Slammie nuts from SAudi A (as has happened in Chechnya) but WE, the US did not allow that to happen. Real Islamic terrorists can be found in Saudi A, Syria, Irn, Irq, Pakistan
118 posted on 03/18/2004 5:09:20 AM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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