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Originally Posted by lisa_spyder
To think that a Kosovar, even so young as he does not know his history...maybe he is a Muslim extremist first and a Kosovar second...I don't know...  |
When I worked at the Bayer factory in Leverkusen, most of the guys on my crew were Muslims, a few from Kosovo and a few from Macedonia. One was Egyptian. I was working there when the war broke out in Yugoslavia and some of those guys went home to fight on their vacation. One Serb in the factory had to be put on a different shift, as the Muslims would have made him have a dreadful accident. I got to know the Kosovars pretty well and they even took me to their local cultural center because I told them I had once had a chat with Bob Dole, who they thought was the only American who understood their plight. It was a pretty wild time. I never kept in touch with them when I left, as it was before email and they only spoke limited German anyway and no English. But I'm pretty sure the older guys there have a soft spot in their hearts for the US, especially given what we did for Kosovo a few years later. Really is a shame one of those younger fools could be so ignorant as to get radicalized to hate the country that liberated his people.