 Two Muslim boys living in Austria, aged 15 and 16, recently confessed in the Leoben Regional Court that they would like to "kill Christians" and "restore the caliphate." They planned to massacre as many people as possible during an attack on the middle school attended by the 15-year-old. Pictured: Leoben, where the trial took place. (Image source: David Bauer/Wikimedia Commons) |
Two young Muslims living in Austria recently confessed that they would like to "kill Christians" and "restore the caliphate."
The boys, aged 15 and 16, were put on trial at the Leoben Regional Court on July 16, 2023. They had made plans to massacre as many people as possible during an attack on the middle school attended by the 15-year-old, in Bruck an der Mur, where they both lived.
When confronted in court, the boys — who both have a history of violence and criminality— admitted that "We wanted to shoot all the Christians in the class!" Asked how they would have responded if police had intervened, they said, "We would have surrendered" — adding that "Allah would have forgiven" them in prison, since "Killing Christians takes us to paradise."
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Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West and Sword and Scimitar is the Distinguished Senior Shillman Fellow at the Gatestone Institute and the Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
