The Video Thread

Nikolli’s father, Niko, told the Balkanweb online media that his son has been depressed since last year after he wasn’t allowed to leave for Italy and had also been infected with coronavirus. The alleged attacker’s father is Catholic and his mother is Muslim, and the father said he told his son to go to the mosque or a church, whatever he wanted.

His father said his son was converted to Islam by an imam in the northern town of Burrel, where he lived. But the father said his son was often prevented from entering mosques by worshippers because they told him he was a Christian.
Ahmed Kalaja, imam of the mosque, said the man attacked worshipers and staff at a time when the mosque was filled with believers during the fasting month of Ramadan.

“We hope it was not a terrorist attack,” said Kalaja.

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Erronius said:

A terrorist attack? In Albania?

I'm not even kidding: that's pretty shocking.

What's even more shocking is that the attack was targeting worshipers at a Mosque.

Looks like it was a kid who had a Muslim mother and a Christian father. Kid converted to Islam, but no one at the mosque would let him in 'because he's a Christian'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/police-albanian-man-with-knife-wounds-5-at-mosque-in-tirana/2021/04/19/a8dc1430-a116-11eb-b314-2e993bd83e31_story.html

Well...they sure as hell aren't going to let him in NOW


EDIT: obligatory video

I've always wanted to go to Albania. The Albanians I met in Iraq were a riot, and seemed like good peoples

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