Original sentence: Kosovo borders on Serbia's  Podunavlje and Podrinje regions to the north, Montenegro to the west, and Albania and the Republic of Macedonia to the south.The Ottoman tolerance and the privilidges given to Albanians over the Serbian population led to a mass conversion of Christian Albanians into Islam.The new religion was embraced by approximately two-thirds of the Albanians, while it improved their status by preserving their national identity
Edited sentence: Kosovo borders on Serbia to the north, Montenegro to the west, and Albania and the Republic of Macedonia to the south.Likewise, heavy religiously-selective taxation and threats to national assimilation by forceful absorption into the Serbian Orthodox Church led to a mass conversion of Christian Albanians into Islam.The new religion was embraced by approximately two-thirds of the Albanians, while it slightly improved their status by preserving their national identity before the Serbian peril, it did not rule out the struggle against the Ottoman regime.This status of the Roman Catholic Church led to a systematic oppression of its members