This incident shows up, among other things, the uselessness of vetting procedures. Western authorities are looking for jihadis while denying the motivating ideology that fuels the jihad: it’s a recipe for letting mass murderers into one’s country. This one was with the Free Syrian Army, which a few years ago was the “moderate” favorite of the Western establishment media. “We have a Free Syrian Army and a moderate opposition that we have steadily been working with that we have vetted,” said Barack Obama a few years ago.
How moderate? This moderate: in July 2013, Free Syrian Army fighters entered the Christian village of Oum Sharshouh and began burning down houses and terrorizing the population, forcing 250 Christian families to flee the area. Worthy News reported that just two days later, Free Syrian Army rebels “targeted the residents of al-Duwayr/Douar, a Christian village close to the city of Homs and near Syria’s border with Lebanon….Around 350 armed militants forcefully entered the homes of Christian families who were all rounded-up in the main square of the village and then summarily executed.” And in September 2013, a day after Secretary of State John Kerry praised the Free Syrian Army as “a real moderate opposition,” the FSA took to the Internet to post videos of its attack on the ancient Syrian Christian city of Maaloula, one of the few places where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still spoken.
This particular “moderate,” seeking asylum in Austria, was found to have murdered twenty Syrian soldiers.
“Austria Convicts Asylum Seeker of War Crimes for Killing 20 Syrian Soldiers,” by Callum Paton, Newsweek, May 11, 2017:
A court in Austria has sentenced an asylum seeker to life in prison after he confessed to murdering 20 wounded soldiers from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army while fighting in a rebel militia in Syria.
The court in Innsbruck found the 27-year-old man guilty of war crimes based on his confession. According to local media, he told others at a refugee shelter that he had shot dead government soldiers while fighting with the Free Syrian Army, a group opposed to Assad. He was arrested in western Austria in June.
According to the Austrian Press Agency the asylum seeker, identified only as a Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in the Syrian city of Homs, claimed a statement he had given to officials confessing to the killings had been incorrectly translated.
However, the the interpreter who gave evidence against him vouched for the precision of the confession. “He told me that he shot an injured soldier. I even asked him again and he confirmed it,” the interpreter said. At the end of the interview the accused asylum seeker had signed every page of his testimony….
Custos Custodum says
Yet another example of the asylum fakers and their powerful enablers ROUTINELY playing fast-and-loose with “mistranslations.”
Any statement in Arabic and other languages that incriminates the asylum Mafia is promptly dumped in the memory hole through convenient “mistranslation.”
Where – as here – an incriminating statement slips through, the asylum faker feels outraged that the usual shield of protection-through-“mistranslation” has failed him and his Mafia hosts.
Ilene Saral says
I read an article (wish I had a link but can’t remember where I read this) about how sunni translators lead to asylum requests by non sunni Muslims and non Muslims being routinely refused by falsely translating the conversation. Not that I think this happened in this case but it is something to consider.
mortimer says
Overtly or covertly, in any way they can, Western countries must start to deprogram Muslims right out of Islam using modern, professional deprogramming methods that will make it impossible for a person to believe in this evil, misogynistic, supremacist DEATH CULT.
The deprogramming campaign must be widespread and in all the common languages of Muslims to guarantee world peace. Islamism is growing and will eventually provoke the start of WWIII. We must start deprogramming all Muslims now.
Custos Custodum says
You are right, of course, but this is NOT going to happen.
First, the vast majority of “elite” senior politicians, bureaucrats, MSM and “social media” owners etc. quietly (but NOT so secretly) WANT Islam to metastasize in the West for the same reason they want “feminists,” toilet activists, illegal aliens, ethnic gangs, etc.: to subvert and intimidate traditional, self-sufficient society, the easier to assume totalitarian power themselves.
Second, even if, e.g. the DHS decided to implement such a program, civil service hiring rules essentially dictate that the program would be run by DMV ladies (and guys) with no pertinent education in Arabic and other languages, let alone any REAL, hands-on knowledge and experience of life in Islamic societies outside the U.S.
Third, cultural “capture” is a particularly insidious problem here. Anyone who has spent time and effort learning Arabic or was raised in the language and/or who has made a real study of Islam and Islamic societies will be very RELUCTANT to speak out in public or even in private on the job in any way that will get him or her banned from ALL Arabic-speaking and Muslim countries. Much easier to muffle any criticism, to overlook inconvenient facts, to “mistranslate” embarrassing statements, to go along to get along, etc.
The cost of ostracism is high. In extreme cases, violence against an upstanding official and his/her family is not unlikely, particularly if he/she is betrayed by disloyal Muslim colleagues.
Just as important are the SOFT costs of standing up to Islam: No more visits to relatives in the old country, no more hanging out with friends back in comfortable cafes in Beirut, no more lucrative post-retirement jobs at some “university” in a Gulf dictatorship.
Similar problems are faced by those familiar with Turkish, Persian and other “Muslim” languages. Even languages not commonly associated with Islam, e.g. French, Hindi and German are in reality widely used as conveyor belts for Muslim migration and propaganda.
Stan Lee says
The mass murderer must pay for his crime, but I am unsure that in the venue of E.U. country Austria, a death penalty is possible. And, I believe the murderer assured himself a weak sentence by being in Austria after his wholesale execution of wounded Syrian soldiers. A life sentence is really too good for him, unless he would be sentenced to a Russian prison in Siberia, or return him to the venue of his killings of helpless men, Syria.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…A court in Austria has sentenced an asylum seeker to life in prison after he confessed to murdering 20 wounded soldiers from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army while fighting in a rebel militia in Syria…”
So he was killing wounded enemy captives – disgusting – a military court could have sentenced this guy to a firing squad execution.