Remus Bleys

I dunno, I'm not quite sure what an "official" split would mean besides claiming that Bektashism was its own religion, and I can say that no, that wasn't the government's position. They described it as an Islamic sect.

Sunnis and Bektashis already had their own leaderships, like the latter had the Dede Baba who was the religious head. I do know that when the conservative Dede Baba killed himself in 1947 there arose two rival Dede Babas: one appointed in Albania and another in Egypt (where the King was a descendant of an Albanian ruler named Muhammad Ali Pasha.)

In Albania most Muslims were adherents to Sunni Islam, but a sizable amount were also linked to the Bektashi sect, whose relations with the Turks were quite poor by the time the Albanian independence movement got under way, and so they tended to be the most consistent of all the religions in supporting said movement. In 1920 or so they were expelled from Turkey and Albania became the center of Bektashism. So by the time the partisans liberated Tirana it had become the most "national" of all the religions in Albania. Naim Frashëri had proposed uniting Muslims and Christians via Bektashism and thus creating one big "national" religion to complement Albanian statehood.

Sunni Muslims, at least back then and among fundamentalists today, consider Bektashism to be a heretical sect because it incorporates various Christian and to a lesser extent pagan views. The Albanian government did try to promote a separate Bektashi identity while still acknowledging it was an Islamic sect.

I have read capital, I'm so sorry I can't pull quotations out of my ass or remember what I read. I was willing to try to talk to your earlier and The Jay was right. You're very abrasive and you're exactly like my ex girlfriend. I hate you. I will never speak to you again. The state is a bourgeois construction, its always been used for minority rule, from Egypt to Rome, in which Rome was the purest state. Go read Bakunin and Kropotkin you jackass

I mainly take influence from Gilles Dauvé and Communization.

I don't know. I was tired, and wasn't thinking straight. Or something.

Fair point Remus, I'll change it as soon as possible.

Hwee loev khorme~!