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British Government Funded Manchester Bomber
Powerline ^ | 5/26/17 | John Hinderacker

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 week’s 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 Monday’s 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.

Abedi’s finances are a major ‘theme’ of the police inquiry amid growing alarm over the ease with which jihadists are able to manipulate Britain’s 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 Abedi’s funding should have been stopped.

Time out! British universities aren’t 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 Britain’s 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 University’s 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?


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1 posted on 05/26/2017 7:18:02 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley
Abedi, 22, never held down a job, according to neighbours and friends, but was able to travel regularly between the UK and Libya.

Funny. I never go anywhere.

2 posted on 05/26/2017 7:24:56 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: markomalley

Well, that is something.


3 posted on 05/26/2017 7:25:10 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: markomalley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHx4in5WU5A


4 posted on 05/26/2017 7:25:12 PM PDT by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Tax-chick

and yet we have no welfare, and yet we live within our means.


5 posted on 05/26/2017 7:58:02 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: markomalley

In all fairness - the bomber was apparently a UK Citizen.. born there to Islamist parents...


6 posted on 05/26/2017 7:58:29 PM PDT by TheBattman (Gun control works - just ask Chicago...)
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To: markomalley

By definition ... “state sponsored terrorism”.


7 posted on 05/26/2017 7:59:23 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: manc

It may not be true in Englands case BUT if we know everyone got their shorts in a wad when PDT virtually called the Europeans ‘deadbeats’ for not paying their NATO bills in a timely fashion.

If WE cut off Foreign Aid and ‘force’ European Nations to pay their own way for defense, they may not have enough money to fund the people that are killing them....

‘they/we’ are right..

Liberalism is a mental disease....


8 posted on 05/26/2017 8:04:43 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Ask the experienced rather than the learned")
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To: Slyfox

Same thing happens here in the USA. These POS game the Democrat welfare system and quite nicely fund their murderous BS on our dime. It will never stop. What a country.


9 posted on 05/26/2017 8:09:19 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: xrmusn

agreed


10 posted on 05/26/2017 8:09:21 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: markomalley

Governments that allow muslims to emmigrate and become naturalized citizens are the ones responsible for all of this, and have blood on their hands. Muslims are just muslims, like rattlesnakes are rattlesnakes, and it has been known for over a thousand years that they simply do not assimilate, nor ever care to. Theresa May is to blame. The tories are to blame. Labor is to blame. Cameron is to blame. Blair is to blame. The entire house of lords and commons are to blame. The Monarchy is to blame. All of you british bastards are to blame, because you let the snake of Islam into your house.


11 posted on 05/26/2017 8:18:46 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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In our case it’s 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.


12 posted on 05/26/2017 8:30:32 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

GW Bush should never show his stinking face in public again.


13 posted on 05/26/2017 8:32:39 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: markomalley

Would it not have been better if he’d have had to work for a living instead of going on an overseas bomb making vacation at government expense?


14 posted on 05/26/2017 8:51:05 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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Seeing the reckless repression the U.K. imposes on its citizens, my appreciation for Commander George Washington and the Founding Fathers grows evermore.


15 posted on 05/26/2017 8:57:43 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

>> that Islam is a religion of peace

Islam is a war plan.


16 posted on 05/26/2017 8:58:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
In our case it’s 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.

I lost almost all respect for W when he said that.

17 posted on 05/26/2017 9:16:33 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is history)
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To: shanover

Obama let in the San Bernadino muslin killers. And he has shoveled thousands of them into nooks and crannies like Minneapolis and Dearborn where they are taking over. Obama should be held liable for war crimes beginning with Benghazi.


18 posted on 05/26/2017 10:30:23 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: markomalley

I lived in the UK many years ago. I was a legal resident because they needed my job skills in the North Sea for Oil Exploration. In the UK I did enjoy national health “for free.” As a very high income earner my taxes were obscene to say the least. Can you say 50%. National Health was not free, I paid out the ass for it via my taxes.

However it was their nation and not mine. I accepted their rules and customs to live there by my own choice Why can not immigrants to my nation of the USA do the same?


19 posted on 05/26/2017 11:32:16 PM PDT by cpdiii ( Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. CONSTITUTUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: manc

That’s racist. When you have a high and mighty goal of world domination and dominion, you can’t be held to such lowly standards involving no travel, and living within such limited means. Allah makes the impossible possible.


20 posted on 05/27/2017 1:56:13 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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