Posted on 02/21/2017 6:20:58 PM PST by markomalley
The Danish government has been inadvertently paying benefits to citizens fighting for the Islamic State in Syria, Danish officials said Tuesday, as outrage grows that militants are manipulating the country’s generous welfare system.
About 145 Danes have traveled to Syria or Iraq to fight for militant groups since 2012, according to the Danish security and intelligence services.
Officials said this week that they had identified a number of Danish citizens who, while receiving government disability pensions, had traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
“It is a huge scandal that we are paying out money from the welfare funds in Denmark to people who are going to Syria and elsewhere in the world to undermine democracy that we have been fighting for for hundreds of years,” the country’s minister of labor, Troels Lund Poulsen, said.
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Yes, it is.
to undermine democracy that we have been fighting for for hundreds of years,
They have been fighting for tyranny for at least 1400 years. They have been fighting against Christianity for the entire time. They claim precedence!
Are we talking 6' 4" Red Bearded Blue Eyed fair skinned Danes or are we talking about the Amish here?
The Euro trash countries: Denmark, Sweden, France and Germany may not be worth saving. The Uk may fall into that pit soon.
How do you “reform” and ISIS psychopath? Have him attend “sensitivity training” classes?
I assume they also get the Danish version of an Obama phone?
The Danes are only admitting it because they have to.
Socialism — a shit-hole of nothing.
Good news. With the defeat of ISIS they will be returning to Denmark. They have learned many new skills while they were away.
Yeah I was thinking they might be lucky that’s all it cost them.
You can never, ever reform an Isis psychopath.
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