Did you know that war is not fun, Assad is a mean man and that people want to flee from bombs? If you miss the emotion they find appropriate for this theme at RTL News, then you can here 11-year-old Mohammed.
They were probably afraid that you will have less sympathy for the new wave of refugees who will eventually come this way. Not so strange. Because bringing in 100,000 people a year, sending practically nothing away, causing a shortage on the housing market (which can be exacerbated by a nitrogen policy) and putting increasing pressure on the welfare state, that becomes annoying once.
And what is especially needed is a mix of news facts about the war in Syria, mixed with some pathetic child in that war zone (of which the whole family has just fled after 9 years), who ‘wish the war was gone “. My goodness.
And of course it is bad for such a child and for all other refugees that this happened to them. But 11-year-old Mohammed is simply used as an instrument for political purposes. Because let’s face it, no one cares that Mohammed wanted it to be possible to wish war away with a magic wand.
We can all find it very pathetic, but if we bring him here he will soon be figuring out at the age of fourteen with a haircut in a drillrap-video. “PTSD” and “socio-economic factors” are the labels we stick to it, because “difficult youth” due to long waiting lists in mental health care. And someone probably knows how to cycle through a social debate about racism. And so RTL News keeps tugging 11-year-old Mohammeds away to regain lost sympathy with the Dutch voter …
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