Posted on 05/26/2017 7:18:02 PM PDT by markomalley
Can a Western welfare state defend itself against Islamic terrorism? Perhaps, but it will require fundamental changes. The Telegraph reports that last weeks terrorist attack in Manchester was funded by the British government:
The Manchester suicide bomber used taxpayer-funded student loans and benefits to bankroll the terror plot, police believe.
Salman Abedi is understood to have received thousands of pounds in state funding in the run up to Mondays atrocity even while he was overseas receiving bomb-making training.
Why? What qualified a terrorist in training for state aid? I suppose the answer is, anyone can get state funding these days, no serious questions asked.
Abedis finances are a major theme of the police inquiry amid growing alarm over the ease with which jihadists are able to manipulate Britains welfare and student loans system to secure financing.
One former detective said jihadists were enrolling on university courses to collect the student loans often with no intention of turning up.
Abedi was given at least £7,000 from the taxpayer-funded Student Loans Company after beginning a business administration degree at Salford University in October 2015.
It is thought he received a further £7,000 in the 2016 academic year even though by then he had already dropped out of the course. Salford University declined to say if it had informed the Student Loans Company that Abedis funding should have been stopped.
Time out! British universities arent required to advise the government when students who are receiving loans drop out of school? Apparently not. The student gets to keep the cash that was intended for tuition.
Then there is Britains generous welfare system. The fact that murderous imams have been supported by the British government for years has been widely reported.
Separately, the Department for Work and Pensions refused to say if Abedi had received any benefits, including housing benefit and income support worth up to £250 a week, during 2015 and 2016. It would only say he was not claiming benefits in the weeks before the attack.
So taxpayers are required to fund terrorists as they prepare to murder Brits, but are not entitled to find out how much money they have paid to reward their murderers. Actually, in the 21st century welfare state that is not at all surprising.
Apparently Salman Abedi never actually worked, so pretty much everything he did was government-funded:
Abedi, 22, never held down a job, according to neighbours and friends, but was able to travel regularly between the UK and Libya.
Abedi also had sufficient funds to buy materials for his sophisticated bomb while living in a rented house in south Manchester.
Six weeks before the bombing Abedi rented a second property in a block of flats in Blackley eight miles from his home, paying £700 in cash.
He had enough money to rent a third property in the centre of Manchester from where he set off with a backpack containing the bomb.
Abedi also withdrew £250 in cash three days before the attack and transferred £2,500 to his younger brother Hashim in Libya, who is accused of knowing about the attack in advance.
Abedi might have gotten some cash from ISIS. But still, how stupid are we Westerners, to support those who are trying to murder us?
Professor Anthony Glees, director of Buckingham Universitys Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, said: The British system makes funds readily available to jihadist students without checks on them. There needs to be an inquiry into this.
No wonder the terrorists hold us in contempt. It is easy to ridicule the Brits, but the real question is: given the fact that it is not possible to talk honestly about terrorism, Islam, welfare, education, or a number of other topics, is there any way a Western welfare state can reform itself to stop supporting its most bitter enemies?
Tell the 4th and 9th circuit judges to burn in hell.
I’ve been saying for more than a decade that Dubya set us back at least 25 years in properly addressing the problem with his “peaceful, friendly religion” nonsense. It isn’t and never was, and all it takes to realize this is to look at current events and the life of Mohamed.
You are spot on. The scum of the middle east is currently building an army of terrorist cells as the blackrobes appointed by Obama secure their right to infiltrate our country paid in full by taxpayers and so-called charities.
What do we DO? NOTHING.
Yup. Low-T loser Brits sat back as they were invaded by militant breeders. The Anglo-Saxon gene pool will be extinct in the space of a generation. mohamhead and aisha are the most common boys and girls names given to babies in England now. That says it all.
“It is easy to ridicule the Brits, but the real question is: given the fact that it is not possible to talk honestly about terrorism, Islam, welfare, education, or a number of other topics, is there any way a Western welfare state can reform itself to stop supporting its most bitter enemies?”
Follow Trump’s plan. The one activist judges and Republican members of Congress are stopping.
Liberalism is to blame.
Absolutely right.
If he had not been in the pocket of the Saudis, we might have gone to the source of the problem instead of detouring to Iraq.
“You are spot on. The scum of the middle east is currently building an army of terrorist cells as the blackrobes appointed by Obama secure their right to infiltrate our country paid in full by taxpayers and so-called charities.
What do we DO? NOTHING.”
We did -we voted for Trump.
Complicit Prince of whales:
"Can I get me non-extradition here"
The British government and the people who elected the fools running it are every bit as liable as the terrorist for the death of those kids.
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and yet we have no welfare, and yet we live within our means.
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Well, DUH. That’s ‘cuz it’s YOUR own $$. Who cares the cost when another is picking up the bill? Long as they vote Uncle Sugar, life is just fine.
Now, back to work (falsely believing slavery has ended in the U.S.), millions on welfare depend on your forced ‘generosity’.
Or show up to school and earn passing grades instead of showing up to bomb making school and graduating with honors.
Suicide of Britain continues unabated.
Your Whitehouse and your CIA built and supplied ISIS.
Nice glass house you’ve got there.
>>In our case its George W. Bush, he told us after 9/11 that Islam is a religion of peace in the face of 1400 years of evidence to the contrary.
Very true! He started the RoP lie, which is repeated like Seinfeld’s “not that there’s anything wrong with that” line, except that the RoP lie has become the official policy of the governments of almost every western nation (perhaps all, I don’t know for sure).
Yeah, the CIA forced Britain to import millions of muslims.
Yes, we put Trump in office but another blackrobed tyrant road blocked him. How can one attack mister judge?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3555706/posts
Here’s an article about the number of refugees here increasing.
sigh
it doesn’t seem to matter who we vote for
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