Parapolitikos
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What are wrote are historical facts.My guy you're just insecure. You're insecure about your Arvanite/Albanian ancestry so you try to play it off as Albanized Greek.
The vast majority of Albanians didn't convert because of "fear of the sword" but because of other factors, mainly socio-economic and political. Christians and Jews were forced to pay Jizya, which at times could be extremely high, it was beneficial to convert. This whole "fear of the sword" thing just seems to be Greek propaganda. Provide evidence for "forced conversion" will you?
Montenegrins weren't Catholic by the way, they were/are Orthodox. The Catholics in Montenegro were mainly centered in the SE and they were in fact ethnic Albanians.
If Albanian was synonymous with "Muslim" then why were terms such as "Arnaut", "Arvanite" and "Arbanas" used to denote Albanians in an ethnic sense. I'll not deny that a large percentage of Balkan Muslims were ethnic Albanians, but Muslim wasn't synonymous with Albanian.
What are you saying? That the barbaric animals that routinely abducted women and children for sex purposes,skinned the prisoners of war alive, institutionalize the stealing of children to become soldiers, and enslave men to become slave soldiers, practice widespread slavery, had moral inhibitions of forcing Islam on it's subjects?
Yes there were forced islamizations, primarily during the conquests, rebellions, social unrests, even local disputes of Muslims with Christians.
Once a city was captured, the usual Ottoman practice was to sell the subjects as slaves, especially women and children. Many times were given the choice, slavery or Islam. Many slaves also converted to Islam as a ticked to freedom. Same occurred any time there was a revolt or a rebellion, or a social unrest. Ferocious punitive measures were followed and conversion was one way of saving your life, children, property, honor.
Just search the aftermath of the sieges of cities or revolts and you ll understand how Muslim communities were created.
Catholics of Albanian had no choice really, the Papic states were the main threat to Sultan rule in the Adriatic cost, and a constant threat to the empire it self.
It took the Ottomans 300 years to eventually root out Venetians from the Balkans and Greece. Catholic populations were treated security risks, whereas heretic Christians as paganists.
Why did you think, thousands of albanocatholics settled in Italy as refugees?