No, I won't talk about it in detail.
The reason why I bring this is up is because I assume that many who see Islam as the absolute evil here actually never had any contacts with Muslims in the first place, anda chance to engage in deep discussions with them, getting to really know the people behind the religion, and probably don't know what it is like when you're part of a minority. How people react, despite the fact that you know the language fluently and the culture and that you have been born in the same nation. Suddenly all of that is forgotten and you see how they start to judge you, when they hear your name, which obviously isn't something they heard before, even though they only thing they know comes from the media. You don't know how sick and tired you can be from the same questions by the same dumb people. All. The. Fucking. Time.
Oh? Where is your name from, it sound so fancy? Ah, your parents are from Serbia? I see. All those wars and crimes, so horrorible though, those poor Albanians! Why are the Serbians so evil? No clue, you tell me, German, why have there been so many Nazis in WW2? All those concentration camps and killing. Why was the German people so evil? Every German was a Nazi? Right? Do you feel sorry for your grandfather? And that's the point where some get angry.
But! Not every German was a Nazi! You can't compare it like that, it was such a loooong time ago! What has this to do with me!
Well screw you then. Why do I have to feel guility or know every answer, why some crazy idiots that I don't know kill others? Why make ME, who has grown up in Germany, going trough the German school, who was even born here, feel like I had to appologize OR get in a political discussion at every corner, just because the mongrel infront of me saw BBC last night where they have shown for the thousand and one time how a Serbian militia shoots someone.
Some of you guys think that you're well informed I suppose, that you know everything about Islam and Muslims and how dangerous they are. Well.
Next to a lot of Germans, some Muslims have been my best friends in my youth, people from Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia and I worked with countless of other people from central Africa, Afghanistan, Albania, Iran and Iraq. Some fleed wars, some wanted to improve their life, some have been students, and some immigrants. Some took their religioun serious, others didn't care. I have meet Germans with Russian herritage and lots of east Europeans, of which most have been from Poland, and my current work mates are a German who was born in South Africa and a female co-worker from the Czech Republic. With some people, I engaged in philosphical, political and religous debates, or sometimes we celebrated and drunk together, or we just joked and had fun. And everyone has their own ideas and experience.
But you know what I don't do? I never judge people what ever if they eat or don't eat pork. And I learned a long time ago, not to believe every shit people say about a religion or certain group and to get in some kind of unreasonable anxiety.
Because 15 years ago, I was the evil guy for everyone, for the simple reason because Serbia had to be full of war criminals invading the Kosovo. How else could you convince people that bombing the shit out of Serbia, was justified?
