Islamic State Jihadist Demands 144,000 Euros to Leave Germany

In 2015, throwing Germany wide open to more than one million Muslim migrants, then Chancellor Angela Merkel famously declared that “Wir Schaffen Das!,” or “We Can Do This.” In the nearly ten years that have since passed, it is quite clear that German officials can’t “do this.” That is, they can’t staunch the flow of Muslim economic migrants still arriving illegally in the country, can’t get a grip on Muslim criminals, can’t manage to successfully integrate millions of Muslims into the larger society. There is one hope for Germany: that the anti-Muslim immigrant party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), comes to power. For that party will take draconian measures to call a halt to Muslim migration, to step up deportations of all Muslims who are in the country illegally, and to promptly deport any Muslim migrants convicted of committing a crime who have served their sentences, and to require that all legal immigrants may not put in for welfare benefits during the first five years of their residence in Germany. That last measure will make Germany a much less desirable destination for Muslim economic migrants who until now have been battening on the many benefits that the generous German welfare state provides.

Among the latest examples of Muslim chutzpah is Abdulahi B., a Syrian who is a former Islamic State jihadi. He has now completed a five-year sentence in Germany for his role in helping the Islamic State recruit terrorists and engaging in the planning of terrorist acts himself. He now wants to make a deal: he will leave Germany if the government will give him 144,000 euros ($155,000), which is more than most Syrians make in a lifetime of work. More on his demand can be found here: “Ex-IS terrorist demands 144,000 euros to leave Germany,” translated from “Ex-IS-Terrorist fordert 144.000 Euro, um Deutschland zu verlassen,” Freilich, April 25, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):

A former IS supporter who served more than five years in prison for planning terrorist activities in Germany caused a stir yesterday before the Regensburg Administrative Court. The 36-year-old Abdulhadi B. is fighting against his prison conditions and made an unusual offer to the Free State’s lawyers during a break in the negotiations: “If I go, it will be voluntarily and only if I get 144,000 euros from you,” he said.

The proceedings against Abdulhadi B. began when the judiciary learned of his terrorist activities after he appeared in court over an incident with his girlfriend. He was finally sentenced to more than five years in prison by the Munich Higher Regional Court in 2018. The charges were advocating for IS, attempted incitement to murder and bodily harm. The Federal Court of Justice confirmed the verdict a year later. In addition to recruiting suicide bombers, he also planned a bomb attack and the recruitment of a seven-year-old boy as a child soldier.

Abdulhadi B.has already served his five-year sentence for recruiting members, and planning terrorist attacks, for the Islamic State. That seems like a most modest sentence for him, given that he was convicted of attempting to recruit members for the Islamic State inside Germany, and inciting them to murder Infidels. He also recruited suicide bombers, planned an explosives attack, and recruited a seven-year-old boy to be an Islamic State jihadi. In many Muslim countries, he would have been executed for such offenses. In many Western countries, including the United States, he would likely have been given 20 years to life. Yet he has the gall to complain about the prison conditions he ”endured” for five years; perhaps he’s forgotten what prison life would have been like for him in his native Syria.

Abdulhadi B. is now defending himself in court against the conditions imposed on him, including not leaving Tirschenreuth and not using internet-enabled devices. He argues he was wrongly convicted and is demanding compensation for his time in prison. The Syrian sees himself as a victim and is willing to leave Germany if he receives the sum demanded. His lawsuit has not yet been decided, and so far his efforts in court have been unsuccessful. A deportation to Syria is out of the question for the German authorities due to the ongoing conflict and the uncertain situation in the country.

He hasn’t convinced the court, or anyone else, that he was wrongly convicted of his terrorist-related activities, and there is no reason to pay him compensation. And his demand that he will leave Germany only on condition that he be paid 144,000 euros ought to be scornfully rejected. Instead, the German government ought to be starting deportation proceedings, so that he is no longer Germany’ s problem. He’s a Sunni Muslim, and he almost certainly would be taken in by Turkey, a Sunni state that has sided with the opposition in Syria against the regime of Bashar Assad.

The case has been critically commented on by the legal policy spokesman for the AfD, René Dierkes: “The facts at hand make it clear why the deportation policy of the old parties fails. The Syrian terrorist, who seems to be quite sure of his ideology, is confronted by a completely effeminate state that even allows debate about sponsorship of terrorism in a court of law. This embarrassment must be stopped.” With a “sensible remigration policy,” this person would never have reached Germany or would have been “immediately remigrated,” Dierkes told FREILICH.

Dierkes is, of course, correct. Abdulhadi B. should have been investigated just as soon as he entered Germany. The authorities would then have discovered his Islamic State sympathies, and the work he was already doing for the Islamic State before he fled Syria. That should have led to his immediate “remigration,” not back to Syria, where he would face death, but to another Muslim country — Turkey — that shares his opposition to the Assad regime and would be unlikely to deport him. Now he’s asking for a colossal sum as a bribe to get him to leave Germany. The only conceivable response is to start the deportation proceedings at once, and then to send him packing on a plane to Istanbul, with no hope of returning. As Mr. Bennet says about his spinet-playing daughter in Pride and Prejudice, so should Germany say sardonically to Abdulhadi B., “you have delighted us long enough.”