One hundred years’ suppression by Serbs made the Albanians consider the Serbs oppressors and invaders. Hence, everything that came from Serbia was considered evil and they had enough reason to believe so. Why would they learn Serbian? To enjoy the history books, whose content was anti-Albanian, to watch the Serbian movies that distorted history and listen to the Serbian songs that extolled the Serbian myths, the Serbian untruths?

Tolerance wins the hearts of the people. Intolerance and denial, racial and religious, estrange them and hardens their hearts.

Serbs have never tried to win the hearts of the Albanians, instead, they coveted their land. When they speak of Kosova, they never mention the people who live there. They refer to it as a geographical area where there is only wealth to grab.

To be able to describe what the Kosova Albanians feel about the Serbs, one had to live there before the year 1999. I am not one of them. I am sure, you would do it better provided you take off your anti-Albanian spectacles.

You should use your influence and call on Albanians who live in the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija to learn Serbian. That way they’ll understand that the law of the Republic of Serbia, the country they live in, must be respected if they want to remain in Kosovo-Metohija.

I am sorry I do not know the Serbian language. Nor does my daughter. It is not because I hate your language. I did not have an opportunity to learn it. The little Russian I know would have helped me learn it faster.

I do not hate either the Serb people or their language. Had I known your language, I would have answered you in your mother tongue and you would understand me better. What I hate is the policy pursued by a corrupt ruling class, which has created irreparable divisions between Albanians and Serbs.

If you are from Kosova I assume you may know Albanian. I think there must be Serbs, especially Kosova Serbs, who speak Albanian. Some time ago, I listened to an interview on the Albanian TopChannel by Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Serbs in northern Mitrovica. His Albanian was fluent. You could have taken him very easily for a Kosova Albanian. In fact, he looked and sounded like an Albanian. This brings me to the question. “Looking and sounding like an Albanian”, did this fact made him more Albanian and less Serb? No way. In fact, his Albanian was the means he used to explain his views more clearly to the TV viewers. He could have also used his mother tongue but I don’t think it would have been so helpful through a translation.

I call on the Serbs to learn Albanian, an ancient language of an ancient people in the Balkans. Otherwise, they will never understand their aspirations and sincere willingness to co-exist in peace with the Kosova Serbs and be good neighbors of Serbia.

If you are Serbian Albanian from the Serbian province of Kosovo-Matohija, then you surely must know Serbian language as well. Did you not teach your daughter Serbian language? Or, was it not necessary given that the Serbian authorities were generous enough not to impose the official Serbian language on Albanians???

Suffice it to refer to one fact only: Before the Ottomans invaded Albania and Kosova, the Albanians fought against their incursions under George Castriot Scanderbeg for 25 years on end. The people he led against the Ottomans were all Albanian Christians (Catholic and Orthodox). And this fact is found in the then literature on the Albanians’ fight against the invaders. Only after he passed away in 1468, the Ottomans overran the Albanian territories and the process of Islamization started. As an Italian you claim you are, you should know or if not, you should read to learn to know Scanderbeg’s life and his war against the Ottomans, his relationship with the Vatican and Venice and the efforts of these two Christian power centers to help a Christian people cope with the Ottoman Turks. To learn whether Scanderbeg fought leading Christians against the neighbors of the Baikal Lake Serbs, at least read: Skanderbeg (Wikipedia). There you will learn that the Pope gave him the title Athleta Christi (Champion of Christ). Why? To find out, read and then tell me the ‘why’.

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I SAID TO ALL OF YOU Serbs = these in this forum
NOT TO ALL THE Serbs excluding Serdja
IT IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO OF THEM
AS FOR THE PHASE
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I COME UP WITH MY OWN PHRASES. Thank you
To get all the sense of what I was responding to you had to read SOME theirs MY COMMENTS and my responses which WERE DELETED AND YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHAT I WAS CALLED JUST FIND OUT ABOUT
The word UNTERMENSCH
BY THE WAY I WAS ACCUSED also which is a cheap shot THAT I DO NOT SPEAK ITALIAN
IT IS unbelievable TO THEM THAT MOST OF ALBANIANS SPEAK AT LEAST THREE LANGUAGES
MY SELF I WAS RAISED KNOWING SINCE EARLY CHILDHOOD TWO LANGUAGES other than ALBANIAN. One of them Italian.

Simply stated this is a non-sequitur, regardless of one’s political views. That there are Catholics, Orthodox and Muslims in Albania could scarcely discount the fact the Albanians migrated to Serbia under Ottoman rule. Could it not also be that there were Catholics and Orthodox living in the region since before the Turks left Mongolia, and that Muslim Albanians converted to Christianity with the waning of Ottoman rule and the strength of Christian rule? Furthermore, could it not also be that Christians living in Albania were slaves taken by the Turks from Serbia and sold in Albania? There are nearly 500 years of Turkish enslavement to account for, and all of these are more than possible.

As already said, since the Serbs came to the Balkans as mercenaries from Siberia, the Baikal Lake area, and this is recorded history and nobody questions this historical fact, why doesn’t I.P. call on his fellow Serbs to return to their origin? Failure to call on them to go back where they came from, that is, to Asia, does not speak of “a dysfunctional mind”.

I can’t speak for I.P., but it would seem to me that he was referring to the origins of what makes Serbs who they are, which is not only their racial origin, but the land that has made their culture, which is both Serbia and the black bird field (Kosovo). At moments in jest, I joke about restoring the Eastern Roman Empire, but in reality, the Turks have lived in Anatolia for over 600 years and what makes Turks who they are is not only their language and cultural unity, but also the land they live in. I couldn’t seriously maintain that they return to their mudhole in Mongolia, or that the Arabs should leave Iraq, Syria, Egypt and North Africa and give these regions back to the original inhabitants, greeks, mesoptomaians (if any can be found) and copts and the like, but if you are going to suggest that is how Serbs go back to their origins, well what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Make Istanbul Constantinople again. Otherwise I would leave that point.

In this post, I want to say a few words about the phrase “all of you Serbs born with a dysfunctional brain”. It sounds like a characterization made of the Serbs by some scholar in the Middle Ages and Albiqete just copied it. I was also going to say “some ancient scholar” instead but refrained from using that phrase because there were no Serbs in the Balkans until the seventh century A.D. Nobody knew that the Serbs existed somewhere, far away, in the Baikal Lake area in Asia.

I do not agree with Albiqete on his phrase about Serbs’ “dysfunctional brain”. Proceeding only from what I.P. or some others like him write, Albiqete can not lump all Serbs together. All Serbs are not born with “a dysfunctional brain”. I would rather say that the Serbs, not all the Serbs, of course, have fallen victim to brainwashing by their leaders ever since the inception of the state of Serbia and all what the Serbs, that is, Serb intellectuals, politicians, etc. say, which is part and parcel of this process of indoctrination, sounds abnormal to a normal person.

After the creation of the Serb state, the ruling classes have been indoctrinating the ordinary Serbs with ultra nationalism, racism and hate for other nations and religions. Hence, I.P.’s racism and warmongering. I do not think that I.P. was born with “a dysfunctional brain” either because his way of reasoning tells us that he suffers from shortsightedness or an indoctrinated mind. The very fact that he is able to twist history to serve his theses does not prove that he has “a dysfunctional brain”. I am strongly opposed to this assumption.

For instance, he intentionally forgets that the Serbs came to the Balkans as mercenaries of the Byzantine Emperor in the 7th century A.D. to shed the blood of the restive local populations. In fact, this is what Serbs have been doing since they set foot on Balkan soil and I.P. “forgets” this eloquent fact. Even recently, they started four wars in the Balkans, and having massacred hundreds of thousands of people, lost them and now are trying to get away with it. If given a free hand, they will for sure do it again. Everybody knows that this kind of behavior is called recidivism.

This is what they started to do in Kosova (see: http://www.alb-net.com/warcrimes-img/warcrimes.htm). During the Kosova conflict and war, they killed more than 10 thousand innocent Albanian civilians and forced from their homes about one million Kosova Albanians. If it had not been for the NATO air war against Serbia, Milosevic would have achieved his goal: hundreds of thousands of Albanians would have been killed, the Kosova refugees in Albania, Macedonia and other countries would have never returned to their homes and more Serbs would have started to settle in Kosova to populate it by setting up Serb settlements on the Israeli kibutz model. This is called chauvinism pure and simple, a malady I.P. suffers from.

Furthermore, the brainwashed Serbs have been fighting not only against the non Slavs. They have shed the blood of other Slavs too, namely, the Slovenes, the Croats and the Muslims of Bosnia who originally are Serbs and Croats. This is called fratricide, which I.P. overlooks.

Another example: I.P. says that all Arnauts [Albanians – “Arnaut” derives from the name of the ancient Albanian tribe of Arvan, Arban: hence Arbenia, Arberia (the country of the Arbers, the Albanians), Arvanites (Greek), Arnauts (Turkish), Arberesh (Italy)] should go back to Turkey where they came from. This is a distortion of history, which cannot be done by somebody “with a dysfunctional brain”. As is known, Albanians in the Balkans today are Muslims, Catholics and Othodox and that the Muslim religion was introduced into the Balkans along with the invasion of the Ottomans. Recorded history indicates that Christianity came to the Illyrian (Albanian) territories in the first century A.D and that most of the Albanians became Christians in that century, whereas the Serbs converted from Paganism to Christianity 6 or 7 centuries later.

I.P. says that the Albanians (Arnauts) came to the Balkans together with the Ottomans and, as already said, they should go back to Turkey. Let’s assume that this untruth is “true”. Then, how come that in Albania there are three religions: Muslim, Catholic and Othodox? Did the Ottomans brought Christians to Albania? Of course, not. Did the Albanian Muslims converted to Christianity? Of course, not. The opposite occurred. Part of the Albanian Christians, who the Ottomans found in Albania, converted to Islam. Albanians, who were mostly Christians since the first century A.D., converted to Islam the same as the Serbs did after Ottoman occupation.

I.P. also “forgets” to tell us the big difference between Albanian Christians’ attitude to their fellow Albanians who converted to Islam and the Orthodox Serbs’ attitude to their fellow Serb Muslims. While Albanians have always distinguished themselves for religious tolerance, the Orthodox Serbs have always stood out for religious intolerance. The Orthodox Serbs exterminated all their Serb brothers who had converted to Islam. What can you call this if not fratricide?

I.P and his likes should know that everybody is entitled to adhere to any religion. Belief is an individual matter and nobody should meddle with this right of the human beings. Albanians have applied this right long ago, many centuries before this Right was enshrined in international documents and national legislation, a fact that speaks of their emancipation and not of religious bigotry that still plagues many near and distant nations in the world. I.P. does not know this fact that does honor to the Albanians or if he is aware of it, he does not tell it to this website’s readers.

As already said, since the Serbs came to the Balkans as mercenaries from Siberia, the Baikal Lake area, and this is recorded history and nobody questions this historical fact, why doesn’t I.P. call on his fellow Serbs to return to their origin? Failure to call on them to go back where they came from, that is, to Asia, does not speak of “a dysfunctional mind”.

Since I.P. urges everybody to identify him/herself when posting comments, we can well ask him a simple question: Why are you interested in the identity of the people who post comments on this website? You must be a very inquisitive person. Aren’t you interested in their opinions and ideas?

Another question: Why are you insisting that those who disagree with you, should write directly to your e-mail address? I think you do not want their ideas to be accessible to other readers. This is called truthphobia.

How come that I.P. (Iliya Pavlovich’s) posts, replete with ethnic slurs that neither enlighten nor amuse, are not deleted?