Get Real! wrote:
This is the tip of the iceberg of religious intolerance in Greece but time does not permit to show it all. What’s important is that now we know that among other things, being “Hellenic” means having religious intolerance but stay tuned as we explore “Hellenism” even further in the next article where the REAL HELLENIC DEAL is gradually uncovered…
Regards, GR.
A lot of these drivel GR! posts like the one above and the ridiculous one about Crete are stuff he reproduced from a Slavic forum called "Maknews". Its a FYROM website which i just recently visited and it appears that a lot of these revisionist FYRoM slavs who consider Alexander the Great as their direct ancestor are up in arms over this website:
http://macedonia-evidence.org/
I found it browsing the maknews website (thank you GR!) and that site above has rattled the Skoje government. The site was created by Scholars that dismiss Skopje's claims as 'silliness' in a letter to Obama.
Literally hundreds of prestigious academics from around the globe have dismissed the Skopian claims:
http://macedonia-evidence.org/
Again, these are the same claims that GR! loves to reproduce in this forum. This website:
http://macedonia-evidence.org/
Has also made it in the Greek news.....read about it here:
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain ... ervice=142
Here is a quote:
A group of some 200-plus prestigious academics, for the main part historians and Classicists teaching at the most renowned universities in the world - including the likes of Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Stanford, Vassar, College de France and hundreds of others in the United States and Europe - have sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama asking him to intervene to "clean up the historical debris" left by the previous U.S. administration's policy on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
According to those signing the letter - including widely read authors on ancient Greece and Alexander like Paul Cartledge, Steven H. Rutledge and Robin Lane Fox - Skopje's claims to a Macedonian descent of its Slavic population and its "misappropriation" of Alexander the Great as the country's national hero are a "subversion of history".
"On November 4, 2004, two days after the re-election of President George W. Bush, his administration unilaterally recognized the "Republic of Macedonia." This action not only abrogated geographic and historic fact, but it also has unleashed a dangerous epidemic of historical revisionism, of which the most obvious symptom is the misappropriation by the government in Skopje of the most famous of Macedonians, Alexander the Great.
