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Sweden paying welfare benefits to multiple jihadis who went from Sweden to fight in Syria and Iraq

Mar 13, 2017 9:25 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Swedish taxpayers are already paying the huge expenses involved in accepting asylum seekers, and now it has been revealed that Islamic State fighters who are travelling “from Sweden to fight in Syria and Iraq have been the beneficiaries of welfare payments from the Swedish government.” This is a big thank you from Sweden’s government to its beleaguered taxpayers.

And Sweden is not alone: other Western governments have long supported jihadists: look at the funding that the Palestinians have received in the billions. Jihadis have also received welfare benefits from Britain, Denmark, Australia, France, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

“Swedish Welfare State Funding Islamic Terrorism”, by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, March 12, 2017:

A new damning report shows that multiple Islamist fighters who have travelled from Sweden to fight in Syria and Iraq have been the beneficiaries of welfare payments from the Swedish government.

The new report created by the by the National Defence University on behalf of the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) shows that around 300 Islamists have claimed benefits by using others to give the government the impression that they are still in Sweden despite the fact that they are in Syria or Iraq fighting for jihadist groups, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

Terrorist researcher and one of the authors of the report Magnus Ranstorp said the problem isn’t just limited to Sweden. Commenting on the results, he said: “it was not surprising, we have seen the same pattern in other countries. Most surprising was that almost all had it in some form. But it is the monitoring that needs to work better. The problem is that there is too little follow-up.”

The 300 individuals covered in the report traveled from Sweden to the Middle East between 2013 and 2016, and are thought to have participated in fighting for groups including the terrorist Islamic State.

Housing allowances, child support, student loans, maintenance and parental benefits are the most common types of benefits earned by the Islamists, often collected by a third party with the money then sent to them overseas. ” It’s not big money, they do not get rich on it, but it can go a long way in a conflict zone,” Ranstorp said.

Police say that student loans, in particular, are an issue because the fighters can game the system by pretending to be going overseas to study and receive large lump sums from the Swedish government.

Swedish Minister for Upper Secondary School and Adult Education and Training Anna Ekström said the problem was “totally unacceptable. No state funds will be used for something that is in the vicinity of terrorism. We must take hold of this immediately. We are preparing now to go to the parliament and ensure that the government gets the opportunity to ensure that we do not pay out such large sums at once.”….

The Swedish government has also essentially legalised the flying of the Islamic State flag after a Swedish court refused to prosecute a man who displayed the symbol on his social media account as a promotion of the terrorist group.

In 2015 it was shown that the Swedish city of Gothenburg sent more Islamists to the Middle East per capita than any other city in Europe.

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Sweden, Useful idiots Tagged With: Anna Ekström, Gothenburg, Minister for Upper Secondary School and Adult Education and Training


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  1. john spielman says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 9:41 am

    when the people country choose to commit mass SUICIDE by allowing islamists into their country (who WILL EVENTUALLY TAKE CONTROL of the country), and then PAYING THEM welfare which is in effect the JIZYA TAX, it is very sad. Sweden is in for a mass slaughter of the “innocents”

    • Frank says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 3:57 pm

      It’s amazing how many stupid people exist and how so called educated people allow stupid people to lead the way.

  2. underbed cat says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 9:58 am

    All that free education and no education on the problem, in fact it is silenced…but lots of monitoring of hate speech, which shows how clever the doctrine of Islam is, to forbid criticizing the religion as racist so that the pious can maintain a peaceful, victim appearance spread misinformation to the state leaders. Free medical care, education, cash for living generously given, the results end with protests, riots and some above the mark crime…just about ready to take down another country, unless they get the information and see the Islamic state flag, they have conquered you, not the diversity you thought you knew.

    • Tjhawk says

      Mar 13, 2017 at 11:27 am

      I always hear “Diversity Is Our Strength” from simple thinking, sloganeering leftists. They assume that the mere fact of diversity must be good because they suffer from the absolute inability to discriminate good ideas and practices from ideas and practices that lead to failure.

      Yes diversity can lead to some wonderful evolutions in culture, but some level of cohesive unity must be maintained or there will be a collapse. Sweden was a fairly unified place and a good example of non totalitarian socialist culture. Diversity will change that.

      I live in the UNITED States of America. We are a nation of immigrants, and that has made for a very interesting culture, a place people want to experience, but it is the UNITY of our foundational structure that has lead to our success.

      Leftists assume the only possible reason for success in a culture is because they have oppressed all the other diverse cultures and the only way to make this right is to become more “diverse” themselves.

      Reality will be biting them in the ass soon enough.

  3. D. Christensen says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 10:40 am

    Dictionary lookup: “Immigrant policy of western countries” —- Suicide by proxy.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 11:49 am

      Or possibly: “U.N. Agenda 2030 plan to utilize Muslims to reduce world population.”

  4. mortimer says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 11:23 am

    It’s time for Western governments to stop being naïve about the jihad doctrine, the misogyny doctrine, the kafir doctrine and the taqiyya doctrine. Without a civil service trained in those Islamic doctrines and trained to identify them, there is no way to oppose jihad.

    Jihad is extremely insidious.

  5. mortimer says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 11:30 am

    The jihadists are involved in sedition. Governments need to look at ways of punishing sedition related to jihadism.

    Jihadism is the doctrine of the overthrow of all world governments by Islamic warriors and the replacement of their consitutions with discriminatory Sharia law.

  6. John A. Marre says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 11:32 am

    Good. Do all you can to attract the Jihadis, just keep them out of my country. Sweden has planted the seeds of its own downfall. It’s only a matter of time until you hear about Swedes having their necks sliced by the Jihadis who they are forced to support.

  7. Angemon says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    The new report created by the by the National Defence University on behalf of the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) shows that around 300 Islamists have claimed benefits by using others to give the government the impression that they are still in Sweden despite the fact that they are in Syria or Iraq fighting for jihadist groups, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

    Muslims committing welfare fraud on an European country? Imagine my surprise…

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 11:53 am

      Really!

      Maybe they learned from the masters of the art of welfare fraud – the Mexican illegal aliens.

  8. Stan Lee says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    Sweden reports only part of the very trying welfare money collection by jihadis “playing” the myopic Swedish benefits system. Perhaps Sweden is so embarrassed by the coup with which Jihadis have burdened the Swedish welfare system, that its government stooges mention only half of the “welfare game robbery”.
    Jihadis don’t take a single wife, they take multiple wives who in turn, via Muslim culture distortions, and keep busy in one area of endeavor, and that is frequent pregnancies in order to multiply the Muslim birth rates as quickly as possible.
    In the meantime the “invitees” to Sweden work the scheme to enhance the Muslim population explosion which will catch up and surpass the approximate ten million Swede population.
    How stupid has been Sweden? Not only stupid but set upon national suicide. It will come to pass that the Yellow cross upon blue field Swedish flag will become a museum exhibit of days when Sweden was a Norse nation. The new flag’s colors will be red,white, green, and black while Swedes can only blink about it and question each other concerning how it happened while that nation was satisfied to escape by sleeping and denying.

  9. John A. Marre says

    Mar 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm

    …. and to their four “wives.”

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 14, 2017 at 11:55 am

      Also known as their herd breeding program.

  10. Horseman says

    Mar 14, 2017 at 1:53 pm

    It’s pretty obvious that the Swedes could care less about their country or culture. They’ll lose both within a few years.

  11. Brenda Romano says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 6:10 pm

    Well someone has to feed, clothe and house them so they can rest up.

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