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Muslims used their UK welfare payments to fund Paris and Brussels jihad massacres

Nov 25, 2016 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

In Islamic law, non-Muslims have the duty to provide for the upkeep of Muslims. British jihadist Anjem Choudary said in February 2013:

“We are on Jihad Seekers Allowance, We take the Jizya (protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims) which is ours anyway. The normal situation is to take money from the Kafir (non-Muslim), isn’t it? So this is normal situation. They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money. Hopefully there is no one from the DSS (Department of Social Security) listening. Ah, but you see people will say you are not working. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the Kuffar (non-Muslim) So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”

This is, of course, based on the Qur’an: “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).

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“British benefits payments used to fund Paris and Brussels attack suspects’ campaign of terror, court hears,” by Martin Evans and Lexi Finnigan, Telegraph, November 24, 2016 (thanks to David):

The jihadists suspected of carrying out the bomb and gun attacks in Paris and Brussels used British benefits payments to fund international terrorism, a court has heard.

Mohamed Abrini – who became known as the “man in the hat” following the deadly attack on Brussels airport in March, was handed £3,000 by two men in Birmingham before flying to Paris and disappearing.

He had been sent to collect the money by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who is suspected of being one of the ringleaders of the attacks across the French capital just months later in which 130 people were killed.

Zakaria Bouffassil, 26, from Birmingham is accused of handing over the cash which had been withdrawn from the bank account of Anouar Haddouchi, a Belgian national, who had been claiming benefits while living in the West Midlands with his wife.

Kingston Crown Court heard how thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money continued to be paid into Haddouchi’s bank account, even after he had left Britain for Syria and had begun fighting for Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil).

Mr Bouffassil, 26, who is also originally from Belgium is accused of giving Abrini a large amount of cash during a secretive meeting in a Birmingham park last July.

He was accompanied by Mohamed Ali Ahmed, who has already admitted the charge.

On the opening day of their trial, jurors heard how some of the most notorious and wanted terrorists in Europe had used British taxpayers’ money to fund their activities in Syria and elsewhere.

Max Hill QC, prosecuting, said: “There is no doubt that the money was handed over with the intention of assisting acts of terrorism.”

He went on: “The intention could not be more clear. Haddouchi had left the UK to fight for Daesh in Syria. Abrini came to collect the money in the UK.

“The destination would include Syria and specifically Daesh, either to Haddouchi himself or to other fighters. In other words the cash was handed over to Abrini with the intention of assisting others to commit acts of terrorism.”

Mr Hill explained that Haddouchi had left Britain for Syria in the summer of 2014.

He told the jury: “His TSB account at times contained some £7,000 or more. The figure fluctuated over time because benefits payments were still going into the account, even though Haddouchi had left the country.”

He said the money had been gradually withdrawn in cash sums on various dates between 30 May 2015 and 23 November 2015….

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  1. David says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 2:09 pm

    I know, this should neither shock or surprise anyone.
    BUT!
    What the fudge is going on over there?
    How is it that an ILLEGAL NONCITIZEN can get ANY MONEY AT ALL?????
    They must have the most INSANE system on the Planet!
    It is literally BEYOND STUPID!
    CAN’T ANYONE SEE THIS?

    • Big Trevor says

      Nov 25, 2016 at 2:37 pm

      David,

      The Jihadist was a Belgian citizen, Belgium is a member of the EU and therefore has freedom of movement will all other EU members, including the UK. So he was not an illegal non-citizen in that sense. This kind of thing however was a contributory factor of the Brexit vote. Many UK citizens are sick to the back teeth of people, from mainly (poor) Eastern European countries, not to mention jobless unskilled people from elsewhere in the EU, coming to the UK and claiming our (comparatively generous) welfare benefits. Migration is not all bad, some talented people will naturally want to settle in the UK too, but to have no control (as in no right to turn away an EU citizen) over your borders is indeed ‘beyond stupid’ as you say.

      Can you imagine the USA agreeing to a deal with freedom of movement for all people from Canada down though Central America, all the way down to Chile/Argentina? With a Pan-Americas central bank in say, Mexico City? A supreme judiciary in Buenos Aires? A Pan-Americas parliament/congress in Toronto? Would US citizens be OK with that? Of course not, but that is basically the deal the UK has with the EU. Which is why it was so ridiculous for Obama to visit Britain and start telling us how we should vote in our own referendum!

      • Pollard says

        Nov 26, 2016 at 9:58 am

        Oh believe me, the globalists would like that and they did try to start such a thing called the NAU (North American Union) under the guise of easier/freer trade. There was to be a super highway leading from CA to MX and eventually, citizens of the three countries would be NAU citizens with unrestricted travel.

    • Chuck says

      Nov 25, 2016 at 4:18 pm

      It’s happening here too. Muslims living on illegal US government benefits.

    • Judi says

      Nov 25, 2016 at 5:47 pm

      It is totally insane and what’s the odds the British Government will continue paying them benefits even paying for their wive(s) and litters of little inbreds.

    • Damocles Junior says

      Nov 25, 2016 at 5:56 pm

      As a result of affirmative action programs and the general attitude of rejoicing in diversity many of the administrative staff in the UK welfare system will be Pakistani and other varieties of Muslims They will just dish out public welfare funds to all their friends and family with only minimal scrutiny..

    • Anne Smith says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 5:29 am

      A lot of older British people do see this. Unfortunately the colleges and schools are brainwashing all the young people into believing that it is racist to give one’s own citizens any preferential treatment over incomers and immigrants. Thus socialism has been indoctrinated into the young people and those who protest are labelled “racist”.

      I listened to a Parliamentary candidate for the UKIP party saying on radio that housing and right to buy should be restricted to people actually living in this country and who had paid into the system, not recent immigrants. She was howled down by the audience and called “racist”. That is what we are now up against in this country.

    • Kenneth Ohl says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 7:23 am

      Just like here in the United States.

    • Jim says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 7:27 am

      We’re doing the same thing right here in America. Suicide by PC idiocy only a Liberal can approve.

    • A Harris USA says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 12:11 pm

      No one wants to see what these pig savages are up to!! Fact is that is the plan!! Use our money to kill us with.. MAYBE there will be a Euro movement to stop their political whores from selling out all of Europe !! Again, Europe, get your Trump on!!!

  2. Shmooviyet says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 2:15 pm

    Is the arrogant dungheap Choudary collecting “jihad seekers allowance” during his brief prison term?
    Oh, yes, his spawn must be fed.

  3. Trico says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    ” Muslims used their UK welfare payments to fund Paris and Brussels jihad massacres”
    –
    “9/11 Mastermind Reveals Plan to Destroy America. Anyone Who Wants Open Borders Might Want to See This…”
    “…the “practical” way to defeat America was through immigration and by outbreeding non-Muslims….jihadi-minded brothers would immigrate into the United States, taking advantage of the welfare system to support themselves while they spread their jihadi message.
    They will wrap themselves in America’s rights and laws for protection, ratchet up acceptance of Sharia law, and then, only when they were strong enough, rise up and violently impose Sharia from within.”
    http://ijr.com/wildfire/2016/11/742833-911-mastermind-reveals-plan-to-destroy-america-anyone-who-wants-open-borders-might-want-to-see-this/
    –
    “Take the refugees! We shall soon collect them in the name of the coming Caliphate.”
    “Al-Aqsa Mosque Address: Europe Wants the Muslim Refugees as Labor; We Shall Conquer Their Countries ”
    http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/5076.htm
    –

    • Anne Smith says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 5:43 am

      Well if Europe wants the Muslim refugees as Labour, it is going to be sadly mistaken. They seem much better at claiming benefits than doing any Labour.

    • A Harris USA says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 12:14 pm

      We know that the Muslim hordes is to out breed, and kill us. The problem is, the liberal idiots just think everyone is “equal”, and that Muslims are peace loving people.. The fools are still drinking the Kool aide!!

  4. Len Vanes says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 2:37 pm

    Your Jizzya money at work!

  5. Angemon says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 2:48 pm

    In a sane world, this news would prompt ALL European nations to scrutinize their welfare recipients.

    • Rob says

      Nov 26, 2016 at 12:47 am

      With all the evidence, using the words “European nations” and “sane” in the same sentence is disallowed

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    It’s now been a year and over a week since those vicious and murderous jihad attack by Muslims terrorists ISIS jihad attacks in the city of Paris on November 13, 2015. Those brutal demonic and malicious Islamic terrors attacks that night in Paris were a sin and affront unto God. Furthermore, those cruel, callous, malice-filled Islamic terror attacks of the jihad were also a crime against humankind and an affront against the nation of France and against all that is good and right. Such ruthless deadly wickedness is the results [or fruits] of the militant jihad of Islam. This statement about Islamic deadly violence is upheld by the “holy book’ of Islam, the Qur ‘an. As in Sura. 9:111. which instructs “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, the slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.’ Likewise, Sura 47:4 teaches “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Let’s face it , using firearms , and other kinds of bombs as those Muslim jihadists used in those heinously evil jihad attacks, that night in Paris can sure make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can. A “peaceful religion “? Bull !

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 2:56 pm

    Since the Sunday before last Sunday it’s been year since those heinous and murderous jihad massacres in Paris France on November 13, 2015 it should be make clear that those brutal and cruel Islamic murders happened ,in part, because of those jihad-minded Muslim males who are so extremely deluded and irrational because they really believed in the nonsensical , strange and far –fetched doctrine contained in the Koran, of sex-filled paradise with black eye- houris, virgins, in it for the male Muslim who dies as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam fighting in the jihad. As, this bizarre Islamic doctrine of a houris -filled place is found in the Koran in, for example, 4:54. 55:56. 78:31. So this odd and outlandish Koranic doctrine inspired many young Muslims males to commit many horrendous, ruthless, heartless and murderous actions of jihad violence. Those vicious jihadists’ massacres that occurred during the night of November 13, 2015 was most wicked and hideous. That extreme deadly evil caused by those jihadist/Muslims with their firm but blind unquestioning belief in the weird and false doctrine from the Koran of such a houris, filled paradise that had the outcome of mass murder and chaos in the city of Paris France, is a strong reminder of the wise statement written by the French philosopher, Voltaire, who wrote “As long as men continue to believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

  8. Allan says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    It’s been a minute since the British had a civil war, or at least a great chaotic social upheaval, and the next one is sure to combine the explosive power of economic and religious concerns. The motivations will be clear enough, I think, as are the identies of villains who deserve to be blamed for causing the upheaval. Perhaps all that’s needed to get things moving are succinct statements to focus attention upon the villains of the drama. For example,

    £ “The jihadists…used British benefits payments to fund international terrorism, a court has heard.”
    £ The Labour Party and the Conservative and Unionist Party, but Labour esp., arranged the payments.
    £ Labour and the Conservatives encouraged millions of foreigners, esp. Muslims, to migrate to Britannia.
    £ Labour and the Conservatives are actively persecuting people who oppose the migratory invasion.
    £ Labour and the Conservatives are actively persecuting people who criticize, judge, or condemn Islam.
    £ Labour and the Conservatives have colluded for decades to concentrate most wealth and political power into their own hands and the hands of their supporters.
    £ Many leftists who do not support Labour are sympathetic to the migratory invasion and to persecution of people who criticize Islam and Muslims.
    £ Islam is a cut throat cult of sex slavery, child molestation, larceny, and totalitarian theocracy.
    £ High church Anglicans are suspiciously eager to help Islam in Britannia.
    £ Labour and the Conservatives have helped to spread the strangling vines of Islamic theocracy throughout the government’s schools.

    And so on.

  9. davej says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    A society that finances its own destruction deserves to die.

    I’m sure the allah worshipers agree.

  10. abad says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    This is another good reason why Muslim migrants need to be prohibited from going on state welfare. They are owed nothing by the host nations.

  11. ElderlyZionist says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    Accessories to mass murder. Hang them.

  12. SoCalMike says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    Welfare state bureaucrats are so generous with other people’s money even when it gets British citizens and taxpayers murdered.
    So generous.
    How about we start executing one bureaucrat for every murder committed by some jihad allowance seeker collecting benefits?
    Might motivate them to think twice before paying out next time.

  13. Stan Lee says

    Nov 25, 2016 at 10:36 pm

    A pitiful group of EU nations have placed a curse upon themselves, and has concerned itself for the welfare of a “Trojan Horse” in the form of Muslims, while the Muslims who sent them begging for entry could not care less if their beggars lived or died, just as long as they observe instructions for jihad.

  14. Islam the religion of killers says

    Nov 26, 2016 at 5:38 am

    Whichever way you look at it’s a catch 22 …..
    The muslims have to live on the social welfare system, even if they had any intent, or wanted a job they couldn’t get one …

    who in their right mind would employ an arab or a muslim, all you’ll get is grief grief
    grief ..
    Muslims have to live on the social welfare, they’re too stupid to do anything like basic manual work which of course they cannot do because they think they are superior …

  15. Raja says

    Nov 26, 2016 at 8:31 am

    With all the PC mentality the West has gone cuckoo, little realizing that they cannot discern the good and the bad. When faced with allah hu akbar chanter pointing a AK 47 a Westerner runs helter skelter just like all humans would. The sad part is the leadership prefers to look the other way and continue to tell: don’t worry everything will be alright. The Jihadis enjoy this kind of terror as they are taught to hate with odious hatred every human except their co-religionist.

    It is no less true about welfare funds funneled for Jihad. There cannot be a better world for Jihadis than West. Use the money of the host nation to kill and destroy them in every possible way. This is the justice system the Western govts are delivering today but beyond a figment of imagination mere 50 years ago. This is the theater of the absurd in the name of globalization and one need to question this if this is the result of decades of leftism or some other stupid experiment?

    Hopefully election of Trump and Brexit have put in some kind of break on this kind of stupidity.

  16. Carolyne says

    Nov 26, 2016 at 10:53 am

    There should be no welfare money paid to the invaders and no money at all unless they have productive jobs benefiting the host countries. It would be better to distribute food and clothing only and a small place to live. No money at all. They cannot be trusted with money, nor, in fact can they be trusted in the West.

  17. davej says

    Nov 26, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    As someone else pointed out, most feel entitled to welfare/jizra and have no intention of working. Nor would a wise employer want them, so its a perfect circle of deception.

    They should be issued a ticket home as they are a drag on normal society.

  18. aspomdpkfm says

    Nov 26, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    Well – I don’t know about the UK and Europe, in general, but all of this hoopla is easily reduced to one, simple remedy – at least in the USA – stop paying taxes and go underground.

    Simple as that. I refuse to be a part of this nonsense, as well as funding wicked people like Planned Parenthood with my tax dollars.

    This is why I no longer live or work in the USA. Not paying the Devil.

    Never.

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