“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29
We recently saw that a jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber lived off Swedish student aid. And as British jihadist Anjem Choudary said: “The normal situation is to take money from the kuffar. You work, give us the money, Allahu akbar.” But those are just individuals. Karzai has them all beat: he is raking it in for his entire gang, a.k.a. the “Afghan government.”
“Karzai: CIA promises to continue cash payments,” by Qadir Sediqi and Chelsea J. Carter for CNN, May 5:
(CNN) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he has received assurances from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Kabul that it will continue delivering cash, as it has for the past decade, to his offices.
“Yes, we received cash from the CIA for the past 10 years. It was very useful, and we are very thankful for this aid,” the president said during a news conference Saturday in Kabul.
“Yesterday, I thanked the CIA’s chief in Kabul and I requested their continued help, and they promised that they will continue. “
Karzai’s comments follow last week’s report by The New York Times that the CIA has been dropping off shopping bags full of money every month or so for more than a decade to the offices of the Afghan president.
“This is not unusual,” he told reporters, adding that the money was spent by his office and the national security office for a variety of purposes, including paying salaries, helping the war wounded and providing scholarships.
Karzai dismissed questions about why such money, not in state coffers, was needed for what he described as government expenses.
“This is the choice of the American government,” he said….