Aleykumu salam. Ehlen ua sahlan. Albania is going through a rough time regarding the muslim identity over there. This is because they have next door the greeks and serbs who wnat badly to convert albanians by force or otherwise to greek orthodoxs. Because of communism albanians were left without religion for 50 years the ONLY country in the world that declared it self ATHEIST. Now they are passing through a hard time with the young generation because they have emigrated in Italy who wants to make them catholics, Greece who wants to make them orthodoxs. There are 1 million albanins in greece many of them are changing their names from having muslim/arab origin names. For example, you find someone before going to greece having a name like, Ali, Muharram, Abdullah, all these are change to Yorgos, Panayotis, Yanis greek names etc etc. Women with names for example Maryam, Aishah, Faatimah, now the greeks made them change to Christina, Elpidha, Stavrula etc etc. They are getting baptized in greece , their children are getting baptized by the greeks. They have made them were crosses on their necks after baptizem. Have started to celebrite christmas, Easter,etc. Very sad. Allahul Mustean. Meanwhile young people are comming to islam, alhamdulilah, most of them not only to islam but to the sunnah as well. and Allah knows best.
