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Nearly all Muslims who left Australia to join jihad were on the dole

Feb 20, 2015 1:47 pm By Robert Spencer

KhaledSharroufThese jihadis no doubt consider these welfare benefits to be their due, in lieu of the jizya that the Qur’an says that Muslims should collect from subjugated non-Muslim People of the Book (9:29). In Islamic law, it is the place of non-Muslims to turn over their funds to the Muslims.

“Aussie jihadists were on the dole,” by Simon Benson, The Daily Telegraph, February 21, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):

ALMOST all of the wannabe terrorists who have snuck out of Australia to join jihadist armies in Iraq and Syria were on the dole or some form of welfare payment, The Saturday Telegraph can reveal.

A federal investigation into the welfare status of Australian foreign fighters, prompted last year by revelations in The Telegraph, shows 96 per cent had been on welfare benefits when they fled to the Middle East.

Most had continued to collect payments from Australian taxpayers while training with Islamic State to become terrorists intent on wanting to kill Australians.

The investigation has captured the records of 57 Australians who left the country before October last year to fight with the Islamic State.

Of that number 55 have been confirmed to have been on welfare payments.

Since then, an estimated 50 more Australians have ­illegally travelled to the Middle East to join IS, with most believed to have been claiming some form of benefit.

A subsequent audit of this group confirmed that most had been at one time in ­receipt of benefits such as Newstart, sickness, youth and carer’s allowances, as well as the Disability Support Pension.

Writing exclusively in The Telegraph today, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was “appalled” that the majority of those Australians joining terror groups had benefited from the welfare system….

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  1. Don McKellar says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 1:53 pm

    Jizya tax from the infidel while colonizing their country for Islam, use it to finance training to kill the infidel, travel to wage jihad, paid for by the infidel. Now comes the next part of the plan: return home and terrorize and kill the infidel to advance Islam, while collecting more infidel jizyah! That’s moslem logic for you! AND IT WORKS.

    • M S case says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 8:17 pm

      WONDER HOW MANY MUSLIMS IN THE WEST ARE DRAWING FREEBIES FROM OUR GOVERNMENTS THEN TDURNING AGAINS US.

      ONE THING THOUGH. THESE GUYS HAVE TO GO THROUGH An INITIATION BEFORE ISIS WILL ACCEPT THEM……KNOW WHAT THAT IS……….THEY ARE THE ONES DOING THE BEHEADINGS AND SOME OF THE OTHER ATROCITIE THAT IS BEING DONE. OTHERWISE ISIS WOULD BE AFRAID THAT SOME WERRE INFILTRATORS …BUT GUESS WHAT SOMETIMES EVEN THE INFILTRATORS HAVE TO DO THINGS THEY DON’T WANT TO DO. SO MAYBE THERE ARE SOME AMONG ISIS ALREADY. SURE HOPE SO. WE SURE NEED SOME INTEL

  2. cs says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    We feed them, and they kill us.

    • katherine says

      Feb 20, 2015 at 6:42 pm

      NOW you get the idea.

      This was exactly Obama’s ploy when promoting his health and immigration plans – bring the 5th-columns in and support them with tax-payers money freeing Muslim resources to concentrate on the destruction of the host nation.

    • katnis says

      Feb 20, 2015 at 7:39 pm

      How convenient!

    • umbra says

      Feb 20, 2015 at 10:42 pm

      Scum of the earth.

      • particolor says

        Feb 21, 2015 at 4:55 am

        I certainly hope our Dimwit Dhimmi Government Has a Dole Office in Syria ?? Id hate to see those Patriotic lads go without !!

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    Very few of the Ozzie or other foreign jihadists will make it home because the ‘LOCAL BOYS’ treat them like subhuman excreta and then send them out in suicide attacks while they wait behind the lines.

    The mask of Islam has fallen. Muslims will discredit themselves if they maintain any further contact with Islam.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 20, 2015 at 4:09 pm

      mortimer posted:

      “Very few of the Ozzie or other foreign jihadists will make it home because the ‘LOCAL BOYS’ treat them like subhuman excreta and then send them out in suicide attacks while they wait behind the lines.”

      Yup, that’s the most probable fate of the unskilled ones.

      • particolor says

        Feb 21, 2015 at 8:31 am

        With Slight Mental Retardation !! But well enough to ride Shotgun on an ISIS Stage Coach !!

    • Lulu says

      Feb 20, 2015 at 11:49 pm

      one can only hope!

    • M S case says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 5:44 pm

      they have already discredited themselves over and over

  4. Jaladhi says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 2:38 pm

    If only they had regular jobs, they would not have become terrorists!! snicker, snicker, LOL…

  5. Raymond Hietapakka says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    Can’t they still get their cheques deposited in their debit accounts via Direct-Deposit?

    • particolor says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 5:02 am

      I certainly hope so ! Especially those with a disability Like Mental Illness !! 🙂
      That’s all of them Aint it ?

  6. Charli Main says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 2:57 pm

    And all the Muslims that have stayed behind and continue to infest Australia will continue to suck of the Kaffir milch cow.

    • particolor says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 8:35 am

      Plus Halal Extortion Backup !!
      Shits on the No Welfare Middle East !!

  7. shoehorn says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    Blogster Tim Blair calls them the Bludjhadeen.

    • PJG says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 2:07 am

      Good one!
      For any non-Aussies here who are mystified, a “bludger” is a person who doesn’t contribute but lets everyone else do the work/pay the money or whatever.

  8. pongidae rex says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    Under the law, the payments will probably continue in their absence, to be reclaimed upon their return.

    No civilization can survive this level of suicidal stupidity in the face of an existential threat.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Feb 20, 2015 at 8:39 pm

      Yep.

  9. Brett_McS says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 pm

    The reason for this story is part of a campaign to reform (ie reduce) the dole/welfare system to eliminate this sort of thing (long term dole due to ‘disability’). It’s being supervised by the new minister Scott Morrison, who was the hard-ass that ‘stopped the boats’ when he was immigration minister. It’s a good sign.

    • katnis says

      Feb 20, 2015 at 7:45 pm

      Nice! I’m a big fan already!

    • Bukkdem Jizheads says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 5:54 pm

      Children of Muslims getting benefits need to be tattooed with DNA profiles of the mitochondria to identify the real mothers. Otherwise, a polygamous family is probably getting quadruple benefits per child. UK, USA, FRANCE, ITALY do you hear me?

      • particolor says

        Feb 22, 2015 at 6:20 pm

        I’ve always thought the Cheating Mongrels did that when the Authorities Rock Up ,The SHARE KIDS Arrive on Cue !! 🙁 “OH ! 🙂 All this lovely Welfare from the Stupid Infidel !!” 🙂

  10. katnis says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    islam has been expelled from Europe twice. Maybe Australia will follow that example and expel islam from australia as well…. Wishful thinking?

  11. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 20, 2015 at 9:05 pm

    “…revelations in The Telegraph, shows 96 per cent had been on welfare benefits when they fled to the Middle East.”

    Only 96%? Really? So, will the 4% be punished when their ISIS overlords find this out?

    • particolor says

      Feb 22, 2015 at 6:26 pm

      Severely So !! They will be made to eat an HALAL Bacon Burger !! WTF ?? 🙂

  12. Matthieu Baudin says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 1:07 am

    And undoubtedly they were working ‘unofficially’ at the same time with no sense of allegiance to their country or its people and hadn’t developed a moral commitment to truthfulness.

  13. Billy Battle says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 1:47 am

    Why can’t Allah support them?

    Why do they think they are superior to the West when 10’s of millions of moslems flock to the west for ‘freedom’ and a better life, whereas no-one from the west wants to migrate to moslem countries for a ‘better life’.

    No westerner who goes to any moslem country can get welfare, yet they come over here in droves getting our welfare whilst they plot our destruction.

  14. sidney penny says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 7:32 am

    http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/federal-police-raid-ishrat-ali-doctor-to-sydney-terrorist-khaled-sharrouf/story-fni0cx12-1227224724875

    Federal Police raid Ishrat Ali, doctor to Sydney terrorist Khaled Sharrouf

    Psychiatrist Ishrat Ali, who provided a report supporting Mann Charrouf’s DSP application.
    • Dr Ishrat Ali treated Khaled Sharrouf before he went to Syria
    • Signed off report man with ‘mild mental retardation’ couldn’t work

    THE psychiatrist who once treated Sydney terrorist Khaled Sharrouf has had his ¬office raided and files confiscated by Australian Federal Police investigating allegations of broader Disability Support Pension scam.

    • particolor says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 8:19 am

      Yes probably Half the Muzzo Population of Sydney !! 🙁 Mild Mental Disability ? Make that SEVERE !!
      But well enough to Go on a Tour of Duty in the Middle East for the Enemy ?? Spare Us !!

  15. particolor says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 8:14 am

    Of coarse a lot of us know they are a joke that you cannot laugh at !! And will someone tell that Pea Brain of a leader (Mr Captains Call) that it is no use Shutting the gate now the Horses are in the Scrub !! 🙁
    Security Announcement Monday ? Another JOKE !!

  16. DamnMaineYankee says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 9:21 am

    Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just equip them with explosive belts and transport them out into the Outback so they could detonate them on their journey to their real God, Shaitan?

    • particolor says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 9:52 pm

      Message just in from Giant Head…. Paradise is now Full of Parasites !! 🙁
      Thanks Harry !!

  17. Jeff says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 11:57 am

    How did the West become dumb enough to assist in its own demise? Oh yeah, political correctness.

  18. VK says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    Idiots. Hindus who can enhance your way of life aren’t allowed to immigrate to Australia and you are happily immigrating muslims to steal your welfare. Keep it going. You are losing against Islam. Looks like Hindus are going to wage the final battle even though they are the minorities in world strength

    • Phil says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 9:56 pm

      Not quite sure where you’re coming from with that comment? From the 2011 Australian census, Hinduism is one of Australia’s fastest growing religions, due largely to immigration. We have and have always had a significant Hindu presence in Australia….just as an example, the previous President of the AMA was a Hindu, and very popular. The only reason the Muslims get in at the current rates is that we have a per country immigration quota system – which is idiotic (but the Multi-Kulti would have a fit if we set up culture- or religion- specific quotas). The only Hindu group that are having problems are Tamil refugees who arrive illegally by boat – and you won’t get any argument from me about how stupid and immoral our treatment of the boat people is.

      And, forgive me, but I can’t wholly agree with the claim we’re losing the Battle against Islam. The West is slowly awakening, but the same can be said of India. There has been a lot of appeasement of muslims in both India and the West. Our politicians are craven and corrupt.

      • particolor says

        Feb 21, 2015 at 10:11 pm

        Go on ! Ya Reckon ? I’ve got the Solution ..They Sail in, They Fly Home Pronto !! Not a Problem !! 🙂
        “But I haven’t got a Passport Mr Infidel! !” 🙁
        “That’s OK ! We are sending You Home to get one !! 🙂

        • Phil says

          Feb 22, 2015 at 2:34 am

          No problems with dealing like that with the fly-in mob. If ‘fly-in, fly-out’ is good enough for the workplace, it’s good enough for the jet setting would-be settlers.

          The issue is not towing the ‘boat people’ out to sea in leaky boats or sending the poor buggers to Manus Island. They should be processed swiftly in Oz and if they can’t prove their bona fides, swiftly deported. Not kept waiting for years, and allowing the Refugee Lobby to live off public funds making all and sundry a cause celebre.

          And if someone who we let in turns out to be a Jihadi then deport them and all their dependents after they’ve received (and served!) the appropriate legal penalty AND investigate their sponsors, who should be liable for similar prosecution if their clients turn out to islamists. And spare me the claims that sending them and their families back to the Dar al-Islam is a human rights violation. If they want to recreate a Shariah-compliant paradise – they can go and live in one. Overseas. Permanently.

        • particolor says

          Feb 22, 2015 at 3:18 am

          They wont go there ! No Welfare ! They go through and Discard Safe Muslim Country’s ! They are Not Refugees !! With or without a Passport ! They are Nothing but an Orchestrated Sleeper Invasion Force !! Sitting it out on Jizra, welfare from the Infidels until time ! But some of them cant wait and go Bananas Waiting !! Street Riots whenever they don’t get their own way, They go Berserk and call us everything under the Moon !!

  19. Phil says

    Feb 21, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    And Tony Abbott FINALLY decides Hizb ut’Tahrir might need to be curtailed? And just maybe, we should stop paying the dole to Jihadis?? How low does his political popularity have to go before he actually addresses the problem of militant islamofascism in full?

    • particolor says

      Feb 21, 2015 at 9:49 pm

      Can You go lower than a Tiapan Snakes Belly ?? 🙁

      • Phil says

        Feb 21, 2015 at 9:58 pm

        Unfortunately, mate, I suspect our politicos could go lower!

        • particolor says

          Feb 21, 2015 at 10:28 pm

          “Lower Ground Floor, Hijabs, Burkas, Korans, Swords, Turkish Delight !!” 🙂
          “Going Up !!”

  20. BC says

    Feb 22, 2015 at 7:01 am

    So this bears out Obama’s claims. We need to give them good well paid jobs and they will forget about the attractions of jihad

  21. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 22, 2015 at 7:04 am

    They’re not “Australians”.

    They are “Aussie-passport-holding Muslims”.

    and if it was up to me – and many another Islamosavvy Aussie, of which the numbers *are* slowly but steadily increasing – then the moment we found out they’d shot through to the Dar al Islam to wallow in the jihad bloodbath, then that same moment their Australian citizenship or residency status, and their passports, would evaporate like spit on a hot pan – PFFFFT! – leaving them there where they belong – dar al islam. And they would *never* be permitted to return.

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