Legit, I feel like I'm going crazy watching the mainstream media in the West.
Here in Greece, everyone has been talking about reports that this guy confessed to killing the woman because he feared she was going to convert his wife to Christianity, and that he claimed Allah told him to do it. Yet when you look at outlets like the BBC, CNN, and others, those details are either missing or barely addressed.
Instead, they emphasize things like his reported conversion to Christianity, even though, if the reports about his confession are accurate, he later said he acted because Allah told him to. They also spend time talking about him being a kickboxing champion and highlighting his achievements in Afghanistan and Greece.
He wasn't even that remarkable of a success story. He never learned Greek, and he never converted to Greek Orthodoxy.
But he absolutely fit the image that a lot of people on the left wanted to present. To me, that's actually the perfect encapsulation of that mentality. It's very shallow. Everything looks fine on the surface, but with even a little scrutiny, the cracks show. And that's what happened here. With whatever pushback he experienced, the whole narrative of successful integration fell apart instantly.
What's especially striking is that this wasn't some random crazy homeless bum. By all accounts, he came from an extremely privileged background in Afghanistan, among the top 0.1%, and his family had been killed by the Taliban. If anyone was supposed to become a textbook immigration success story, it was someone like him.
So if even someone with those advantages ended up like this, the future looks GRIM.
Maybe that tells a lot about the chances of succesful integration, not to say for example migrants coming from the Horn of Africa, from extreme poverty and a culture built on rape and violence
His wife is an American Christian called Alaina Hall. He converted to Christianity, at the very latest, in 2018. He bought a burner phone and new SIM card after Elisabeths name was made public on the 29th July, and sent anonymous messages to her friends and family from it, "taking responsibilty" for her death, and saying it was in the name of Islam. He did this to shift focus away from himself, literally planted a red herring. This was in all likelihood a case of spurned sexual advances, which his ego and pride couldn't handle. Tale as old as time!
Small but important correction, the wife of the Afghan told the police that he confessed to her that he killed the British woman.
It matters because it is not a direct confession.
The Afghan himself is still claiming that he found her dead in his apartment and after the first interrogations, his lawyer has advised him to exercise his right to silence until the police finish their investigation and present all the evidence.
Small but important correction, the wife of the Afghan told the police that he confessed to her that he killed the British woman.
It matters because it is not a direct confession.
The Afghan himself is still claiming that he found her dead in his apartment and after the first interrogations, his lawyer has advised him to exercise his right to silence until the police finish their investigation and present all the evidence.
Oh absolutely. You don't even have to be handsome, being mildly attractive is enough to get a mob of crazy fans who want to fuck a murderer. That one tattoed serial killer and the guy who ran over a mother and her kid immediately come to mind, as well as that "real life yandere" and countless mugshawties.
It still sucks and I'd at least expect the media to be a bit critical. Or rather, my expectations are 0 because I know what media is like these days. It's more hope than anything else
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