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Albania: Response to an Article

Friday, May 11th, 2007 @ 13:12 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Albania
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture, Ethnicity, History, Human Rights, Religion, War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics

Patrick Poole writes about the comments he received on his piece on Albanians: “An email I just received called me ‘an angry apologist for jihadist murderers'. This was from a well-known anti-Jihad writer, who had previously agreed with the sentiments expressed that I was a Nazi sympathizer. The jist of his position would be: ‘Albanian Muslims bad, Serbian Christians good; Albanians jihadist murderers, Serbians innocent victims.' But as with all things in the Balkans, things just aren't that simple.”

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