Austrians Offer Syrians 1,000 Euros to Buy Ticket Home to Syria

The collapse of the Assad regime means that the countries of Western Europe have now suspended considering any new applications for asylum by Syrians. After all, there is no need to be a refugee if the tyrant whom you feared has been deposed. But there remains the problem of what to do with the nearly two million Syrians already in Europe — one million of them in Germany alone. The government of Austria has been the first to address the problem of Syrians already in the country, whom it wants to encourage — or force — to return to Syria. To that end, it is trying the carrot of 1,000 Euros to pay for a ticket back to Syria. More on this can be found here: “Austria offers Syrian refugees 1,000 euros to return home,” by Francois Murphy, Reuters, December 13, 2024:

Austria’s conservative-led government said on Friday it is offering Syrian refugees a “return bonus” of 1,000 euros ($1,050) to move back to their home country after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

Conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer reacted quickly to Assad’s overthrow on Sunday, saying the same day that the security situation in Syria should be reassessed so as to allow deportations of Syrian refugees.

Deporting people against their will is not possible until it becomes clearer what direction Syria is taking. For now, Austria’s government has said it will focus on voluntary deportations. It has also stopped processing Syrians’ asylum applications, as have more than a dozen European countries.

Like many conservatives in Europe, Nehammer is under pressure from the far right, with the two groups often seeming to try to outbid each other on tough-sounding immigration policies. Syrians are the biggest group of asylum-seekers in Austria, a European Union member state.

“Austria will support Syrians who wish to return to their home country with a return bonus of 1,000 euros. The country now needs its citizens in order to be rebuilt,” Nehammer said in an English-language post on X….

Chancellor Nehammer is cleverly presenting the expulsion of Syrians as being done to help Syria itself, which “needs its citizens in order to be rebuilt.” Syrian patriots should. be eager to return home to build the New Syria. Those who are unwilling to do so will be offered a carrot — an unum tantum of 1,000 Euros. Those who are still unwilling — well, the Austrian government has not addressed that possibility, but the people of Austria may want them to wield the stick of forced expulsion.

Now that the Austrians are the first Europeans to start a program to repatriate Syrians, other countries will likely be looking into doing the same. Germany has more than one million Syrians; they started to be admitted in 2015. That was the year when former Chancellor Angela Merkel famously exclaimed “Wir Schaffen Das!” — We Can Do This! — about her policy of admitting millions of Muslims, with one million just in that year alone.

It turned out, of course, that neither the Germans, nor any other Europeans, could “do this” — that is, successfully integrate into their societies millions of Muslims who arrive with, undeclared in their mental baggage, the view of non-Muslims as “the most vile of created beings.” They came as economic migrants, while all of them claimed to be “refugees” seeking asylum. They were eager to take advantage of every benefit the generous welfare states of Western Europe provide. Those welfare benefits have been paid for by the indigenous non-Muslims of Europe, but now so many of those benefits — free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, and more — have had to be provided to Muslims, late arrivals who never paid into the system from which they are extracting so much.

The admission of millions of Muslims into Western Europe over the last few decades was a colossal error, based on ignorance of Islam and a failure to own up to that ignorance, and then the fear among the elites responsible that if they were now to express doubts about the wisdom of allowing so many Muslims into Western Europe, of being charged with “Islamophobia” and “racism.” Few in the Western world knew, or know even today, what Muslims are taught, starting with the uncompromising division of the world between Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb, and — as it says in the Qur’an — between Muslims, who are the “best of peoples” (3:110), and non-Muslims, who are “the most vile of created beings.” Nor do the political and media elites responsible for these crazed immigration policies want to admit to their own people how badly they have been led astray by their own leaders.

Now Austria has started the ball rolling, prepared to pay Syrians to go home. The next step will be to require Syrians to go home, whether they like it or not. And the rest of Europe will be watching very closely, fearful that this policy may not work, but hopeful that it will. There is still time to prevent the Islamization of Europe, by sending Muslims back to North Africa, the Middle East, and Pakistan. Grasp the nettle, Europeans. Follow Austria’s example.