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The BBC portrays an indebted Afghan father selling his 7-year-old twin daughters into sexual slavery with adult men as a man who is forced to make difficult choices 🇦🇫

There is no betrayal. Skënderbeu was politically religious, first of all. The entire revolt came due to the fact that the Ottomans stripped Gjergj of the inheritance of Gjon’s lands, giving it to Anatolians, which was becoming common throughout the Balkans in general. Skënderbeu was not some Christian fanatic like you make it out to be. The only sources of his Christian fanaticism come from priests. The reality is that if he wanted a shot against the Ottomans, he needed allies, and the only real allies he could count on were the Catholics. If he cared about his ancestral faith he would’ve become Orthodox, but he didn’t because the Orthodox world had been defeated and conquered. So converting to Islam or remaining Christian has nothing to do with Skënderbeu. His fight was for the security of Albania, first and foremost, which was the fight of the Muslim Albanians who soon came after. It wasn’t even controversial to later Christian authors like Bogdani to claim a second coming of Skënderbeu to save Albania from the Ottomans could even be a Muslim. At the end of the day, the world moved on and circumstances changed. When Skënderbeu died, the Christians forgot about us completely and left us to rot in the Empire. We offered all we could to the Pope for our liberation, but it was rejected and he sent his dogs, Venice namely, to suppress any revolts we formed. We were abandoned by the Christians and had to move on. There was no value in that alliance any longer.