The Washington Post has found perhaps the least sympathetic figure among the millions of individuals fleeing the ISIS-fueled chaos in the Middle East. Meet Faisal Uday Faisal, a 25-year-old millennial who "fled" his home (and a cushy government job) in Iraq for Sweden, only to return after he didn't like the food and found it "boring." This is his story:
"It was a boring life there. Their food — even a cat wouldn’t eat it," Faisal said of his two months in an asylum center near the Swedish city of Malmo. "I went to Europe and discovered Europe is just an idea. Really, it’s just like Bab al-Sharji," he said, referring to a Baghdad market neighborhood...
Faisal concedes that he left for economic reasons, the kind of asylum applicant European authorities are trying to sift out from those fleeing violence. He said he decided to "arrange a story" about being threatened by Iraqi militias. "If I was in danger, I wouldn’t have come back," he said.
Faisal begged his father, who had spent $8,000 on sending his sons to Europe, to send more money so he could come home. "He missed the services here. At home everything is done for him," said Faisal’s father, Uday Faisal Mohee.
In other words, in the midst of a global refugee crisis that has caused millions to flee the destruction wrought by brutish dictators and genocidal gang-rape enthusiasts, a pampered millennial convinced his dad to send him to Sweden, where he lied about his reason for seeking "refuge," and then begged his dad for more money to come home after getting bored and disillusioned about the prospect of having to find a job. He concludes by musing some gibberish about how "Europe is just an idea."
That sound you hear, Faisal, is the world's smallest violin playing just for you.
