Original sentence: Contemporary Muslim Albanians deemphasize the (Christian) religious heritage of Skanderbeg by viewing him as a defender of the nation and he is promoted as an Albanian symbol of Europe and the West.In the late Ottoman period Albanian intellectuals claimed that Skanderbeg had overcome self interest and religious loyalty through service and loyalty toward an Albanian nation, itself absent in the fifteenth century
Edited sentence: " Contemporary Muslim Albanians deemphasize the (Christian) religious heritage of Skanderbeg by viewing him as a defender of the nation and he is promoted as an Albanian symbol of Europe and the West.Albanian nationalists argued that Skanderbeg "had done everything to save his nation and his people and, in his case, ethnicity and loyalty to the Albanian nation (that, of course, did not exist in the fifteenth century) had overridden loyalty to religion or self-interest