How is it stories like this get ignored?
This Syrian refugee rescued an American student after she was assaulted in Cologne
PRI's The World
Caitlin Duncan was terrified. She'd already been assaulted, twice, by the mobs that gathered near Cologne's train station on New Year's Eve.
Then she heard a voice in German. He was a Syrian refugee.
He was coming to her aid.
"He came up to me and said, 'Kann ich dir helfen?' which in German is 'Can I help you?'" Duncan says. "He made sure to keep a distance between us, and he looked really concerned."
To say she was uncertain would be an understatement. "At this point, I had been attacked for the second time by this larger group, groped all over my body, my hair pulled."
The world knows of the attacks on scores of women as Cologne brought in the New Year. But the story of 5-foot-2 American neuroscience student — and her Muslim rescuers — stands out.
At that moment, she was sobbing, disheveled, distraught. Separated from her German boyfriend and her cellphone. And it became clear to her new Syrian protector that she knew limited German. So the Syrian man went to get his friend, Hesham Ahmad Mohammad, who spoke English.
The men volunteered to help Duncan locate her boyfriend.
"They first said, 'OK, you can use our phone,'" she says, adding that in the craziness of the moment she couldn't remember her boyfriend's number.
Then they went one step further: They offered Duncan 70 euros for a taxi back to her boyfriend's home. But she wanted to stay and keep looking for her friend.
"I helped her because she was alone, and she was crying," says Hesham Ahmad Mohammad. "I take hand of Caitlin. I make Caitlin behind me and I speak with high voice, saying, 'If you want problem, I can make problem.' My friends hear my voice, they came to me, to be beside me. First of all I say to them, 'We must make circle about Caitlin because somebody tried to kiss her or to touch her, she didn't need that again.' Because I am Muslim, I cannot leave anybody who needs help alone. From my story people know there are good refugees, good people. They will help anybody."
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A Syrian refugee that speaks fluent German?
That's actually not all that surprising.
Germany actually has government funded free German classes, to teach immigrants, how to speak German.
Unlike the multi-cultural crap that's been going on in the US, in Germany, that try and teach people the culture of Germany. So that they can integrate into society.
Instead of trying to live like you are in a Muslim country, get fired from Cargil for not working, and then claim you are discriminated against.
It doesn't surprise me at all that many Syrians have started learning German fluently.
I generally don't support government spending on many programs, but on this one, I agree with. We should offer english classes to immigrants, to teach them English. "That's ethno-centric arrogance". No, it's called helping people be American. Which is the best thing for them, if they intend to live in America.
Instead of having them think they can be Egyptian, walk off the job to pray, get fired, and think somehow they have been wronged.
They dont want to be Americans.