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'Germany
or Nothing,' Demands Syrian Migrant Threatening to Return Home
by Raheem Kassam
• Sep 23, 2015 at 7:53 pm
Cross-posted from Breitbart
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Originally published under the title "'Germany or
Nothing,' Demands Migrant Threatening to Return to Syria if He Gets
Settled Elsewhere."
Housam
Kbieh, who travelled to Europe with his wife and two sons, thinks it's
better back in Syria than in most of Europe.
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A family of Syrian migrants is demanding to be settled in
"Germany or nothing," refusing to live in any other European
country. They have threatened to go back to Syria if they are not settled
in Chancellor Merkel's country, with its handsome state benefits and
open-door policy.
Housam Kbieh told Sky News that he fled Damascus with his
wife and two sons, but rejected the idea of being settled anywhere
outside Germany. "I go back to my country, it's Germany or
nothing," he demanded, adding, "I'[ll] go back [to] my country.
Of course."
The interview arguably does not sound like the testimony of a refugee
desperately seeking a safe haven, but rather of an economic migrant
seeking an easy life at the expense of European taxpayers.
The news came as a Liberal Democrat party leader insisted that
migrants had never heard of Western benefits systems and were simply
looking for a "liberal place" to live. This is despite a recent
study that showed one in five Syrians think ISIS is a positive thing.
Comments left under Sky's original story included, "No problem,
give them nothing" and "If I can't go to Germany I will go back
... not really running for your life then. More like running towards the
great freebie."
The British public appears to be split on the issue, but not without
attempts by the mainstream media to influence opinion. A Breitbart
London analysis
revealed that the BBC is using a disproportionate number of images of
children in its migrant crisis coverage, while a plurality of Britons do not believe the United
Kingdom should be taking more migrants.
Furthermore, it seems that the German public is not being shown the
same images as British people, with allegations being made that the media is colluding to keep the worst images of the
migrant crisis away from German citizens.
Raheem Kassam is a fellow at the
Middle East Forum and editor-in-chief of Breitbart London.
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