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London jihad murderer was receiving welfare checks

Mar 27, 2017 5:32 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).

“London’s Westminster Terrorist Received Government Welfare Before Engaging In His Attack,” by Russ Read, Daily Caller, March 27, 2017:

Khalid Masood, the radical ISIS terrorist responsible for London’s Westminster terror attack, did not have a job and was receiving government benefits before engaging in his attack.

Masood, 52, was unemployed and living in Birmingham before he killed four people and injured approximately 40 others in Wednesday’s attack. He was also reportedly receiving government benefits, according to The Telegraph.

Born Adrian Ajao, Masood had a violent criminal history, including several knife attacks. He had not previously been convicted for terrorism-related activities, but he was investigated by MI5, the U.K.’s domestic intelligence service, for his part in a terrorist bombing plot in 2010.

Known as a partier in his youth, Masood enjoyed playing soccer while in school. He was the father of four children, two daughters from a relationship in the 1990s, and a daughter and a son with his most recent partner. Masood is also believed to have been married to a Muslim woman at some point in 2004.

Masood’s employment history is spotty, though he is known to have taught English to foreigners. He spent two stints living in Saudi Arabia, the first of which occurred in 2005. Masood claimed to have a degree in economics, according to his resume, as well as a career in sales at a British chemical company.

Terrorists receiving government welfare is a common theme discovered in many post-terror attack investigations.

Anis Amri, the terrorist who killed 12 and injured 48 at a Christmas market in Berlin in December, was under investigation for committing welfare fraud under several different identities before carrying out his attack. Several of the plotters of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, including Paris mastermind Salah Abdeslam, are also known to have collected government welfare. The Danish government reported last year that 36 ISIS members had received welfare benefits prior to traveling to Iraq and Syria.

In some cases, these radicals use welfare schemes to fund their terrorist activities. The Paris and Brussels attackers collected a total of $56,000 in welfare, but spent only $37,000 to carry out the attacks.

Masood is known to have lived under various pseudonyms, including Adrian Elms, though it is unclear if he engaged in welfare fraud.

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  1. salim says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 5:59 pm

    Just for the sake of accuracy:
    As far as I understand it, according to Sharia law: Non Muslims do not have a duty to pay for the upkeep of Muslims but they have the duty to pay special tax (jizya) for the Islamic state in return for protection (and because they do not pay the islamic Zakat tax). Non Muslims do not pay jizya if the state is not Islamic (because Sharia is not implemented by non islamic governments). I know Anjem said what you quoted him but that doesn’t make him right.
    However, Many Muslims do not recognise the legitimacy of the non Islamic states and find any islamic excuse to take tax payers’ money. Of course, most European governments are just too happy to turn a blind eye.

    • patriotliz says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 9:16 am

      And the further irony….the non-Muslim supposedly pays jizya for “protection”…that’s not exactly working out. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you…
      I say, ban all foreign Muslims. We have enough problems w/ the existing legal Muslim residents. They are more trouble than they’re worth. We don’t need them. They are colonizing the infidel Western countries for the sole purpose of civilization jihad by reproduction to take control. This is national suicide and the return of the Dark Ages.

      • Lucia Bartoli says

        Mar 28, 2017 at 1:06 pm

        Amen!

    • Frank says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 5:11 pm

      Why the surprise ? Most of them are riding the system or better yet on our backs. Muslims are communists and thank God Trump is our president.

  2. salim says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    Just for the sake of accuracy:
    As far as I understand it, according to Sharia law: Non Muslims do not have a duty to pay for the upkeep of Muslims but they have the duty to pay special tax (jizya) for the Islamic state in return for protection (and because they do not pay the islamic Zakat tax). Non Muslims do not pay jizya if the state is not Islamic (because Sharia is not implemented by non islamic governments). I know Anjem Choudary said what you quoted him but that doesn’t make him right.
    However, Many Muslims do not recognise the legitimacy of the non Islamic states and find any islamic excuse to take tax payers’ money. Of course, most European governments are just too happy to turn a blind eye.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 27, 2017 at 6:31 pm

      Oh, good grief, Salim.

      Islam is full of pious Muslims living off the labor of the Infidels. For one thing, Jizya is often crushing, as it is intended to be.

      And Jizya is not necessarily just money and goods, either. The Ottoman Empire was just one Muslim polity among many who took slaves to stock the military, the slave markets, and the Harems.

      And Jizya is just the tip of the iceberg. The “Prophet” also kidnapped Infidels and took captives in war, which they then either held for ransom or enslaved, living off their labor. He also raided caravans, and later Muslims added sea piracy to their practices.

      In fact, the “Prophet” made his disdain for productive labor, and his belief that it was fit only for slaves, clear many times. Here is one such Hadith:

      Narrated Abdullah Ibn Umar: I hear the Apostle of Allah say, “When you enter into the inah transaction (become businessmen), hold the tails of oxen (become cattlemen), are pleased with agriculture (become farmers), and give up conducting Jihad, Allah will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you return to your original religion”.
      –Sunan abu Dawud Book 23 Number 3455

      This makes clear his belief that those who engaged in productive labor were not real Muslims. Elsewhere he says, passing a home with farming equipment leaning against it, that any house with such implements will be cursed by Allah.

      Today, Muslims also add receiving foreign aid, corruption and fraud, and–like the Jihadist above–collecting welfare payments to their techniques for milking the “filthy Infidels”.

  3. Tanker weams says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 6:55 pm

    Not welfare checks, it’s Jizya, or money infidels must pay to their muslim superiors. An infidel tax as it were. Not PC to talk about this as our political masters are waiting until muslims attain critical mass in the UK and the our leaders will act all shocked. My word, how could this have happened? How did we become part of the caliphate??

  4. davej says

    Mar 27, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    Western governments are actually using their citizen’s tax money to fund their own destruction – incredible but true!

    One year limit on welfare and no multiple wives would be a start.

    • A Harris USA says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 11:54 am

      davej, how about NO money, NO Muslims, NO nothing!!! One dime to this filthy evil is one dime to many!! We in the USA are always complaining there is no money for our elderly in Social Security, but there seems to no end to the money for the filthy invaders, WHO WANT TO KILL US!!!!

    • Lucia Bartoli says

      Mar 28, 2017 at 1:06 pm

      Amen!

  5. Anne Smith says

    Mar 28, 2017 at 5:23 am

    Unfortunately our MPs are too stupid and too obsessed with triviality to understand any of this.

    If welfare was not so easily obtainable and child allowances were only paid on the first child this would make Britain a far less attractive place for these leeches. Might even encourage the parasites to go elsewhere.

  6. Lucia Bartoli says

    Mar 28, 2017 at 1:13 pm

    This guy is a actually a born loser–just the type who join idiot cults to find justification for violence. If we western cultures don’t stop these maniacs now, we will be lost! In greater numbers with various plots they will destroy ALL you hold dear–not only places sacred to faith and culture, but people whom we revere, love, respect. Is England waiting for an attack on its most august figures? Any “profiler” can tell you of the predictability of future violence. In these cases, jail is not enough. Bring in the death penalty and put these awful people down, or dust off the gallows!

  7. Lilythewise says

    Mar 29, 2017 at 11:29 am

    These Muslim invaders are not refugees. They sponge off of the UK or any western land they squat in. I don’t care if I seem Islamophobic but I think a permanent Muslim ban is a rational course of action. It is not extreme to keep invaders out.

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