Michael Ejercito
2017-03-10 15:30:57 UTC
Jihadis Living on Support Payments from the Europe They Vowed to Destroy
by Giulio Meotti
March 10, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10022/jihadi-welfare
Al Harith's story reveals the depth of one of Europe's biggest scandals: the
jihadis' use of European cradle-to-grave entitlements to fund their "holy
war".
Europe gave them everything: jobs, homes, public assistance, unemployment
benefits, relief payments, child benefits, disability payments, cash
support. These Muslim extremists, however, do not see this "Dependistan", as
Mark Steyn called the welfare state, as a sign of generosity, but of
weakness. They understand that Europe is ready to be destroyed.
Filled with religious certainty and ideological hatred for the West, not
required to assimilate to Europe's values and norms, many of European
Muslims seem to feel as if they are destined to devour an exhausted
civilization.
Public policy goals instead need to be to move people off welfare -- shown
to be basically a disincentive to looking for work -- and toward personal
responsibility. There need to be legal limits on the uses to which welfare
funds can be put -- for example, welfare funds should not to be used for
purchasing illegal drugs, gambling, terrorism or, as there is no free speech
in Europe anyway, for promoting terrorism. One could create and fine-tune
such a list. Disregarding the limitations could result in losing benefits.
This would help fight the ghettoization and Islamization of Europe's
Muslims. The cycle of welfare and jihad needs to be stopped.
Four years ago, the British liberal newspaper, The Guardian, ran a story
about the "survivors of Guantanamo", the "victims of America's 'icon of
lawlessness'", "Britain's survivors of the detention centre that has been
called the 'gulag of our times'". The article featured a photograph of Jamal
al Harith.
Al Harith, born Ronald Fiddler, a Christian convert to Islam, returned to
Manchester from detention at Guantanamo Bay thanks to activism of David
Blunkett, Home Secretary of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. Al Harith was
immediately welcomed in England as a hero, the innocent victim of the unjust
"war on terror" after September 11. The Mirror and ITV gave him £60,000
($73,000) for an exclusive interview about his experience at Guantanamo. Al
Harith was also compensated with one million pounds by the British
authorities. The victim of the "gulag of our times" bought a very nice house
with the taxpayers' cash.
A few weeks ago, al Harith made his last "journey": he was blown up in
Mosul, Iraq, on behalf of the Islamic State. Al Harith had also been
recruited by the non-governmental organization "CAGE" (formerly known as
"Cageprisoners") as part of its testimony advocating the closure of the
Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Celebrities such as Vanessa Redgrave, Victoria Brittain, Peter Oborne and
Sadiq Khan appeared at CAGE's fundraising events. The NGO has been funded by
the Joseph Rowntree Trust, a fund created by the chocolate magnate, and by
the Roddick Foundation, the charity of Anita Roddick. Al Harith was also
invited to the Council of Europe, to give testimony against retaining
Guantanamo.
Al Harith's story reveals the depth of one of Europe's biggest scandals: the
jihadis' use of European cradle-to-grave entitlements to fund their "holy
war". Europe gave them everything: jobs, homes, public assistance,
unemployment benefits, relief payments, child benefits, disability payments,
cash support. These Muslim extremists, however, do not see this
"Dependistan", as Mark Steyn called the welfare state, as a sign of
generosity, but of weakness. They understand that Europe is ready to be
destroyed. They have no respect for it. From Marseille to Malmö, many Muslim
children have been raised to despise the societies that have made them so
comfortable. Most Islamists in Europe are now living on support payments
from the nations they had vowed to destroy.
A few days ago, the Danish press revealed that the Danish government has
been paying sickness and disability benefits to Muslim extremists fighting
in Syria for the Islamic State. "It is a huge scandal that we disburse money
from the welfare fund in Denmark for people who go to Syria," said
Employment Minister Troels Lund Poulsen. The terrorists who struck Paris and
Brussels have also used the generous British welfare system to fund their
jihad. It is emerging from a trial in the UK that Mohamed Abrini, known as
"the man with the hat" after the deadly attack at Brussels airport, received
£3,000 in benefits before flying to Paris and disappearing.
It is not the first time that the role of the welfare state emerges in the
Islamic infrastructure of terror:
The family of Omar Abdel Hamid el Hussein, the terrorist behind the attack
in Copenhagen in February 2015, which killed two people, received money from
Danish social programs.
British Islamist Anjem Choudary, convicted of encouraging people to join the
Islamic State, urged the faithful to leave work and to seek unemployment
benefits to devote full-time to war against the "infidels". Choudary himself
pocketed £25,000 a year in benefits.
In Germany, when the newspaper Bild ran an analysis of the 450 German
jihadists fighting in Syria, it found that more than 20% of them have
received benefits from the German state.
In the Netherlands, a jihadist named Khalid Abdurahman appeared in a video
of the Islamic State in front of five heads just cut off. The Dutch
newspaper Volkskrant revealed that he had been declared "unfit for work" and
was paid for a treatment of claustrophobia.
Europe's welfare system has created a cultural toxin for many in a sullen,
unproductive Muslim underclass who live in the segregated enclaves such as
the banlieues of Paris or "Londonistan". Filled with religious certainty and
ideological hatred for the West, not required to assimilate to Europe's
values and norms, certain of these European Muslims seem to feel as if they
are destined to devour an exhausted civilization.
Muhammad Shamsuddin, a 39-year-old London-based Islamist, was featured in a
documentary called "The Jihadis Next Door." Shamsuddin, a divorced father of
five who lives on state handouts and claims he cannot work because he has
"chronic fatigue syndrome," was filmed preaching hate against non-Muslims on
British streets. (Image source: Channel 4 video screenshot)
Public policy goals instead need to be to move people off welfare -- shown
to be basically a disincentive to looking for work -- except in
extraordinary cases, and toward personal responsibility. There need to be
legal limits on the uses to which welfare funds can be put -- for example,
welfare funds should not to be used for purchasing illegal drugs, for
gambling, for terrorism or, as there is no free speech in Europe anyway, for
promoting terrorism. One could create and fine-tune such a list.
Disregarding the limitations could result in losing the benefits. Measures
such as that would will help fight against the ghettoization and
Islamization of Europe's Muslims.
Who is winning here? Democracy or Islamic extremism? The cycle of welfare
and jihad needs to be stopped. Now.
Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and
author.
by Giulio Meotti
March 10, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10022/jihadi-welfare
Al Harith's story reveals the depth of one of Europe's biggest scandals: the
jihadis' use of European cradle-to-grave entitlements to fund their "holy
war".
Europe gave them everything: jobs, homes, public assistance, unemployment
benefits, relief payments, child benefits, disability payments, cash
support. These Muslim extremists, however, do not see this "Dependistan", as
Mark Steyn called the welfare state, as a sign of generosity, but of
weakness. They understand that Europe is ready to be destroyed.
Filled with religious certainty and ideological hatred for the West, not
required to assimilate to Europe's values and norms, many of European
Muslims seem to feel as if they are destined to devour an exhausted
civilization.
Public policy goals instead need to be to move people off welfare -- shown
to be basically a disincentive to looking for work -- and toward personal
responsibility. There need to be legal limits on the uses to which welfare
funds can be put -- for example, welfare funds should not to be used for
purchasing illegal drugs, gambling, terrorism or, as there is no free speech
in Europe anyway, for promoting terrorism. One could create and fine-tune
such a list. Disregarding the limitations could result in losing benefits.
This would help fight the ghettoization and Islamization of Europe's
Muslims. The cycle of welfare and jihad needs to be stopped.
Four years ago, the British liberal newspaper, The Guardian, ran a story
about the "survivors of Guantanamo", the "victims of America's 'icon of
lawlessness'", "Britain's survivors of the detention centre that has been
called the 'gulag of our times'". The article featured a photograph of Jamal
al Harith.
Al Harith, born Ronald Fiddler, a Christian convert to Islam, returned to
Manchester from detention at Guantanamo Bay thanks to activism of David
Blunkett, Home Secretary of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. Al Harith was
immediately welcomed in England as a hero, the innocent victim of the unjust
"war on terror" after September 11. The Mirror and ITV gave him £60,000
($73,000) for an exclusive interview about his experience at Guantanamo. Al
Harith was also compensated with one million pounds by the British
authorities. The victim of the "gulag of our times" bought a very nice house
with the taxpayers' cash.
A few weeks ago, al Harith made his last "journey": he was blown up in
Mosul, Iraq, on behalf of the Islamic State. Al Harith had also been
recruited by the non-governmental organization "CAGE" (formerly known as
"Cageprisoners") as part of its testimony advocating the closure of the
Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Celebrities such as Vanessa Redgrave, Victoria Brittain, Peter Oborne and
Sadiq Khan appeared at CAGE's fundraising events. The NGO has been funded by
the Joseph Rowntree Trust, a fund created by the chocolate magnate, and by
the Roddick Foundation, the charity of Anita Roddick. Al Harith was also
invited to the Council of Europe, to give testimony against retaining
Guantanamo.
Al Harith's story reveals the depth of one of Europe's biggest scandals: the
jihadis' use of European cradle-to-grave entitlements to fund their "holy
war". Europe gave them everything: jobs, homes, public assistance,
unemployment benefits, relief payments, child benefits, disability payments,
cash support. These Muslim extremists, however, do not see this
"Dependistan", as Mark Steyn called the welfare state, as a sign of
generosity, but of weakness. They understand that Europe is ready to be
destroyed. They have no respect for it. From Marseille to Malmö, many Muslim
children have been raised to despise the societies that have made them so
comfortable. Most Islamists in Europe are now living on support payments
from the nations they had vowed to destroy.
A few days ago, the Danish press revealed that the Danish government has
been paying sickness and disability benefits to Muslim extremists fighting
in Syria for the Islamic State. "It is a huge scandal that we disburse money
from the welfare fund in Denmark for people who go to Syria," said
Employment Minister Troels Lund Poulsen. The terrorists who struck Paris and
Brussels have also used the generous British welfare system to fund their
jihad. It is emerging from a trial in the UK that Mohamed Abrini, known as
"the man with the hat" after the deadly attack at Brussels airport, received
£3,000 in benefits before flying to Paris and disappearing.
It is not the first time that the role of the welfare state emerges in the
Islamic infrastructure of terror:
The family of Omar Abdel Hamid el Hussein, the terrorist behind the attack
in Copenhagen in February 2015, which killed two people, received money from
Danish social programs.
British Islamist Anjem Choudary, convicted of encouraging people to join the
Islamic State, urged the faithful to leave work and to seek unemployment
benefits to devote full-time to war against the "infidels". Choudary himself
pocketed £25,000 a year in benefits.
In Germany, when the newspaper Bild ran an analysis of the 450 German
jihadists fighting in Syria, it found that more than 20% of them have
received benefits from the German state.
In the Netherlands, a jihadist named Khalid Abdurahman appeared in a video
of the Islamic State in front of five heads just cut off. The Dutch
newspaper Volkskrant revealed that he had been declared "unfit for work" and
was paid for a treatment of claustrophobia.
Europe's welfare system has created a cultural toxin for many in a sullen,
unproductive Muslim underclass who live in the segregated enclaves such as
the banlieues of Paris or "Londonistan". Filled with religious certainty and
ideological hatred for the West, not required to assimilate to Europe's
values and norms, certain of these European Muslims seem to feel as if they
are destined to devour an exhausted civilization.
Muhammad Shamsuddin, a 39-year-old London-based Islamist, was featured in a
documentary called "The Jihadis Next Door." Shamsuddin, a divorced father of
five who lives on state handouts and claims he cannot work because he has
"chronic fatigue syndrome," was filmed preaching hate against non-Muslims on
British streets. (Image source: Channel 4 video screenshot)
Public policy goals instead need to be to move people off welfare -- shown
to be basically a disincentive to looking for work -- except in
extraordinary cases, and toward personal responsibility. There need to be
legal limits on the uses to which welfare funds can be put -- for example,
welfare funds should not to be used for purchasing illegal drugs, for
gambling, for terrorism or, as there is no free speech in Europe anyway, for
promoting terrorism. One could create and fine-tune such a list.
Disregarding the limitations could result in losing the benefits. Measures
such as that would will help fight against the ghettoization and
Islamization of Europe's Muslims.
Who is winning here? Democracy or Islamic extremism? The cycle of welfare
and jihad needs to be stopped. Now.
Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and
author.