Nothing is so useless that it cannot be used as a bad example. True story.
This is about a young German guy who, by his own information, studies computer science. Let’s call him Udo. When huge numbers of migrants began arriving in 2015, he decided to volunteer to help some of them learn German and navigate German society. After negative experiences with the first two migrants he was assigned to help, he was then assigned to a young Syrian man in his early 20s. Let’s call the Syrian guy Halil.
Udo’s task was to spend time one-on-one with Halil, teaching him about Germany, helping him with bureaucratic stuff, and generally hanging out. Udo went to restaurants and the movies with Halil, helped him with German, and talked to him for hours about his legal case and his background.
In the video, starting at abour 12:00, Udo describes the experiences with Halil that left him fully disillusioned and led him to stop volunteer work. Here’s my summary of the main points in English.
Halil was first registered as a refugee in Italy, and was supposed to be deported back there under existing EU law. Halil hired a lawyer, who won the case and got him a permit to stay in Germany. He then sent Halil a bill for €600. Halil was “outraged” that he was expected to pay for the lawyers’ services, because after all, he had won the case.
When Udo told Halil that he, Udo, was an atheist, Halil was stunned, and his reaction was somewhat menacing. He said of course there was only one God, Allah, and everyone should believe in him. Halil thought it was a miracle Udo was “still alive” because God would not protect atheists. Halil drinks and smokes.
Halil said he believes nobody in Germany has to work, they get free money from the government. He said this is a common belief in Syria, and that is why many people are coming. When Udo explained this is not the case, Halil refused to believe him. Udo found it remarkable that in the age of the Internet, Halili had never bothered to try to find out whether this bizarre rumor was true or not.
Back in Syria, Halil was the ‘ass’ of the family, his father bossed him around and forced him to run errands. They sent him to get the free money in Germany because he didn’t seem to have much of a promising life ahead of him. When asked directly by Udo, Halil said his family had no problems in Syria, and that they were not going to try to follow him because “they’re doing OK” there.
Halil claimed that he had studied, computer science. Udo was thrilled to hear this, and said “That’s great news! Germany needs people like you, with skills. You could have a great future here.” But when Udo, who studies computer science himself, actually questioned Halil, it turned out he was completely ignorant on the subject. Either standards in Syria are incredibly low, Udo decided, or Halil had simply told him a bare-faced lie (“knallhart gelogen" 
. Udo tends to think the latter.
Halil said there was drug dealing in the migrant shelter every night. Nobody has ever been arrested for it, and Halil assumed it was either not against the law, or tolerated. When Udo told him it was against the law, Halil became frightened of being arrested. The migrant shelter is right next to a middle school. Udo said it made him angry to learn that there was an active drug market in the migrant shelter right next to a middle school, and that the police were had done nothing. Udo thought the “rumors” about migrant selling drugs were “right-wing propaganda”, but no longer believes this.
The straw that broke the camel’s back, according to Udo, was when Halil reacted with rage to an official letter saying that he should begin looking for an apartment, which would be funded by the state, but that he should limit himself to under 50 square meters (538 square feet). He protested: “How can I live in a place that small?” Udo, being a student, lives in a 23-square-meter apartment, and must pay for it himself. Udo said he fould Halil’s demanding attitude so frustrating that he called up the volunteer service and withdrew from the program.
Udo concludes by noting that he continues to be sympathetic to refugees and to treat each case on its own merits. However, the media “have not shown” many of the less-appealing sides of the issue. From his own personal experience, he now believes many of the things that he used to consider right-wing lies and propaganda are true.
On his YouTube page Udo has turned off comments, because there was so much nastiness from all sides. I have to say I think what he did takes courage, and I appreciate it. Udo mockery will not be tolerated in the comments here, either.
I have one comment about Halil being the “ass” of the family. I get the strong impression that this is extremely common among migrants. The stories of migrants who appear to have mental problems (low cognitive ability and non-existent impulse control) are legion. Some have burned down their own shelters, many commit crimes on impulse and don’t even bother to flee, they get blind drunk on alcohol and engage in all sorts of antisocial behavior. And this doesn’t even count the tens of thousands of career petty criminals. There are, by now, thousands, of reports of sexual assaults by migrants. The same goes for migrants on trains or buses who begin staring at a female, then expose their penises and masturbate.
In a crowded train car.
That sort of behavior is not normal anywhere. Which leads me to believe that when families are deciding which young male to send off at to get a job — or free money — in Germany, they are likely to send the young men who are “touched in the head”. After all, if you have four sons, and three of them are gainfully employed or already fathers, but one has never fit in and causes you constant trouble, who are you going to send off to the West to cast an anchor on the shores of paradise? You send off the Halils. After all, there are no special education classes or government programs for the mentally challenged in most Arab countries. If Halil leaves, your family gets rid of a troublemaker who costs money and constantly threatens the family honor, and in return you get a chance to relocate to Germany. From their perspective, it’s win-win.
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