Journalist explores struggles of Albanians in North Macedonia
Journalist and analyst Dijana Toska has outlined the problems facing Albanians in North Macedonia, explaining how to live without human dignity, without the only real property you have, and not feel like a refugee in your own country.
In an opinion piece structured in the form of questions, she wrote that it is a scary feeling to live in a foreign country that is yours, CE Report quotes Kosova Press.
Full opinion:
To feel like a refugee in your own country!
How can you love your country when it doesn't love you!
How can you love your ancient country when today you are treated like a minority who, despite your native language, has been put in brackets and counted as a percentage.
How do you stay true to yourself in a country that constantly tries to turn you into something you are not and don't feel.
How do you face the day in this prison where ordinary people are afraid to speak up and the politicians who decide our lives tell us that it's not good to ever become like them?
How did we allow ourselves to degrade to this level for a little power and money, and risk all the values that reflect the identity of a nation?
How have we failed in the primary education of our youth, that a nation is language, blood, land, history, customs, heritage, clothing, and religion is one of the elements that unites us, while loyalty to God is a matter of the heart and the love with which we live.
How can you understand a woman who walks the streets wearing foreign national clothing and says that we are of the same blood?
How do you understand the culture of greeting in a foreign language, which has become a daily habit of life, starting from the street, the shop, the teahouse, the assembly, and even the universities, except for our ignorance to prove to foreign agencies that we are nobody.
How come we as a people never protested against these foreign agendas, which have been working for years to extinguish the existence of the people by stealing our language and words?
How we betrayed God by addressing Him and praying in foreign languages, without ever asking Him for forgiveness for the sins committed against the language He gave us as a people.
The month of Ramadan also showed us how far we have strayed from tradition and spiritual values. There was a competition among some fasting people as to who was serving the most expensive iftars in various restaurants, not to mention photos showing us how the mind and soul are cleansed from the sins of luxury.
How miserable is that life that is lived with deceit, that is measured by money and bribes, where a failed politician, a scoundrel, is respected more than an intellectual and a moral patriot, or a devout believer who has worked honorably for the nation and fatherland his entire life.
How to live without human dignity, without the only real property you have, and not feel like a refugee in your own country.
What a scary feeling to live in a foreign country that is yours.
