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To: Skenderbej

I know your point. You missed mine. I wouldn’t use a name of a Nazi division in an American forum, named after George Kastrioti Skanderbeg or not. His name went to hell the day your ancestors decided to tie it to Nazism.


88 posted on 02/17/2008 12:36:37 PM PST by Serb29 ("Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts ". - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Serb29

I’m not Albanian, if that is what you are implying. I’m Danish American. In the pursuit of nationalism, many omit the facts. Gjergj Kastriot was a Catholic Albanian who fought against the Ottoman invasion in the 1400’s for nearly 40 years before he died. He was from a royal Albanian family, taken by the Turks in his youth and trained in the Turkish military; hence the title “Iskander, Skenderbej”.

He returned to Albania and used the Turkish tactics against them. He is recognized as a man who helped slow and weaken the Turks on their march toward Western Europe. As Americans, we should be grateful the Turks were stopped in the Balkans with the help of the Albanians.

Given Skenderbej’s fight against the Ottomans and Islam, my screen name is more than appropriate in an American conservative forum.


92 posted on 02/17/2008 12:48:26 PM PST by Skenderbej
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