Is Adem Jashari the national hero of Albania or only of Kosovo? This is a pointless question, because what is Kosovo's is also Albania's and vice versa, regardless of today's flags or different passports.
Written by: Eljan Tanini
1. Bac, if you are not my hero, Çerçiz Topulli is not the hero of Kosovo Albanians either! But:
2. Bac, Çerciz Topulli fought like you for Albania. In this world and the next, whoever fights for his Albania but also mine is my hero.
3. Bac, you are my hero because I speak and think Albanian. Wherever Albanian is spoken, wherever Albanian is thought, or whoever feels a little Albanian within them, has the same values as in the north and south of our mountains.
4. Bac, commander, spoke a little to Albanian television viewers because they have started to separate us into heroes and victors! They have started to confuse human merits with state merits.
5. Bac, Rita Ora and Dua Lipa and others like them, are from Kosovo and Albania. Kosovo is not an autonomous province of Albania, it is another Albania separated from Mother Albania. They have their merits for what they have achieved. But in essence, they are Albanians, they are Albanians from Kosovo who speak Albanian.
6. These claims that what is Kosovo's belongs only to it are only valid for letters, stamps and photos. What is Albanian with honor is a reason to live well.
7. We make a big mistake when we think that there are only heroes and victors in so few years of the state of Kosovo. That is: Kosovo now has modern heroes and victors. What Tirana and Pristina had before, what it has now, only Pristina has its official ones, not with Tirana.
8. Kosovo Albanians have their merits in everyday life even when they surpass them and come out higher than the Albanians of Albania. This is for their human and political reasons. In the end, they remain Albanians and cannot belong to a Kosovo Nation that does nothing but speak and think Albanian. Even in the toilet, they even go Albanian. The term Kosovo Nation reminds me of our permanent divisions. Maybe Dua Lipa and Rita Ora are only proud of their families and their budgets in this time of globalization.
9. What is Albanian is neither Pristina's nor Tirana's. It is Albanian and that's it.
10. Tirana and Pristina, in contrast to being land, are first Albanian, then tangible, sensory or mental definitions.
11. Whose family are Migjeni, Gjergj Fishta, Anton Pashku, Azem Shkreli, Sabri Hamiti, Ali Podrimja, Adem Demaçi, At Zef Pllumi, Petro Nini Luarasi? There's no way the Qiriazi Sisters aren't from Kosovo too!
12. We teach the same heroes and victors in our schools, they are inspiring both here and across the border. But in modern Albanian life, heroes and holidays are a little different because that is how our conditions are today. Everyone is wrong here!
13. If Shaqiri, Dua Lipa, Rita Ora are only Albanians from Kosovo and not from Albania, in that world and in this world, who cares that Migjeni and Gjergj Fishta are not from Kosovo?!
14. Rita Ora is where she is because of her merits, neither Albania nor Kosovo. Kosovo and Albania are proud of Rita Ora with cause and effect, because they didn't give her a better life, and it's a good thing that they didn't give her a better life, otherwise we wouldn't have the Rita Ora we have today. It would have been badly lost in Pristina and Tirana.
15. Likewise, Mira Murati is where she is because of her ability, neither of Tirana nor of Pristina. But Mira Murati from Vlora belongs to every Albanian who feels Albanian with an Albanian nation.
16. Listen up, bro: Don't confuse personal skills with speaking Albanian. What is Kosovo's is Albania's and vice versa.
17. Ali Podrimja is taught both in Tirana and Prishtina.
18. Rise up, Anton Çetta, and reconcile the Albanians, for they have begun to distinguish between heroes and victors.
19. Rise up, Gjovalin Gjadri, and build us a bridge by showing us that what is Albanian belongs to all Albanians, regardless of their passport.
20. Blessed is the child who has a mother from Pristina and a father from Tirana, because they have nothing to say to him.