Salman Abedi received thousands of dollars worth of student loans. Yet there are still Leftist and Muslim spokesmen who are trying to sell the public on the idea that it was his “alienation” and “marginalization” in a “racist,” “Islamophobic” British society that led him to jihad.
“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).
UK jihad preacher 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.”
“Exclusive: Manchester suicide bomber used student loan and benefits to fund terror plot,” by Robert Mendick, Martin Evans and Victoria Ward, Telegraph, May 27, 2017:
The Manchester suicide bomber used taxpayer-funded student loans and benefits to bankroll the terror plot, police believe.
Salman Abedi is understood to have received thousands of pounds in state funding in the run up to Monday’s atrocity even while he was overseas receiving bomb-making training.
Police are investigating Abedi’s finances, including how he paid for frequent trips to Libya where he is thought to have been taught to make bombs at a jihadist training camp.
It comes as Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer, said detectives had made “immense progress” in dismantling Abedi’s terror network.
Hey, that’s terrific, Rowley. Just 22 dead too late.
In further developments, a barber shop in Manchester was raided with one theory that Abedi may have obtained hydrogen peroxide – a chemical used in the hairdressing industry but which can also be used to construct bombs – from the salon.
Abedi’s finances are a major ‘theme’ of the police inquiry amid growing alarm over the ease with which jihadists are able to manipulate Britain’s welfare and student loans system to secure financing.
One former detective said jihadists were enrolling on university courses to collect the student loans “often with no intention of turning up”.
Abedi was given at least £7,000 from the taxpayer-funded Student Loans Company after beginning a business administration degree at Salford University in October 2015.
It is thought he received a further £7,000 in the 2016 academic year even though by then he had already dropped out of the course. Salford University declined to say if it had informed the Student Loans Company that Abedi’s funding should have been stopped.
Separately, the Department for Work and Pensions refused to say if Abedi had received any benefits, including housing benefit and income support worth up to £250 a week, during 2015 and 2016. It would only say he was not claiming benefits in the weeks before the attack.
Abedi, 22, never held down a job, according to neighbours and friends, but was able to travel regularly between the UK and Libya.
Abedi also had sufficient funds to buy materials for his sophisticated bomb while living in a rented house in south Manchester.
Six weeks before the bombing Abedi rented a second property in a block of flats in Blackley eight miles from his home, paying £700 in cash.
He had enough money to rent a third property in the centre of Manchester from where he set off with a backpack containing the bomb.
Abedi also withdrew £250 in cash three days before the attack and transferred £2,500 to his younger brother Hashim in Libya, who is accused of knowing about the attack in advance….
Wellington says
Jizya.
mortimer says
If Islam is a religion of peace then why is it the only one that consistently produces religiously-motivated terrorist attacks each and every day of the year?
If Islam is a religion of peace then why were there 31,000 deadly terror attacks committed explicitly in the name of Islam since 9/11?
If Islam is the religion of peace then why has one person been killed by jihadists every 3 minutes since the time of Mohammed?
If Islam is a religion of peace then why did Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, had people killed for insulting him or for criticizing his religion?
If Islam is a religion of peace then why are Muslims are told to emulate the example of Muhammad who committed a violent act every six weeks in the last nine years of his life?
If Islam is a religion of peace then why did Mohammed say he was “ordered by Allah to fight men until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger”??
If Islam is a religion of peace then why after Muhammad died, did the people who lived with him and knew his religion best immediately fall into war with each other?
If Islam is a religion of peace then why did Mohammed’s whole family get murdered by Muslims?
If Islam is a religion of peace then why did three of the first four Islamic rulers get killed by Muslims?
If Islam is a religion of peace then why did Muhammad direct Muslims to wage war on other religions and bring them under submission to Islam?
If Islam is a religion of peace then why did Muslims continue their Jihad against other religions for 1400 years, checked only by the ability of non-Muslims to defend themselves?
gravenimage says
Manchester jihad mass murderer used taxpayer-funded student loan and benefits to fund jihad plot
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Your tax money at work…
jayell says
And the £millions for the 50% male and 75% female Muslims unemployed. And £millions on extra family allowance and housing allowance costs because of their inflated families and illegal polygamism. And the extra £millions spent nationally on the consequences of the excessive birth defects in their offspring. And the £millions spent on internal security including £millions spent on additonal police costs plus the £70-100 million on 1,900 extra MI5 personel recruited because of muslims. Not to mention the costs of mobilising British soldiers on British streets. And the extra £millions spent on maintaining the grossly excessive
proportion of Muslims in British prisons (minimum £40,000 p.a. per prisoner). And the £millions spent NHS and other costs for treating the victims of their atrocities. And the £millions spent on legal aid every time a muslim is brought before the courts or launches an insolently inappropriate appeal against conviction or deportation. And…..
Just by looking at the accounts you can see that Muslims are turning the UK into an expensive, antediluvian cesspit.
gravenimage says
All true, Jayell. This has nothing to do with lack of skills or inability to speak the host nation’s language–you don’t see unemployment figures like this with any other migrant group. This is deliberate.
Phil Copson says
I know – but we can’t afford to think of this purely as a problem of anti-western immigrants making individual fraudulent applications for public money that get approved by the public authorities in all innocence.
As I said, it is at least possible that there is a WIDER problem that this is being done in concert with sympathisers working within the public services, whether to fund terrorism or simply to commit benefit fraud.
Someone should be checking out whether the applications made by people who do not use them for financing their studies etc, or are known to be radicalised, are being handled and approved by the same group of people in benefit offices etc.
Rufolino says
Former detective says “jihadists are enrolling for university without turning up” !
If they were known to be “jihadists”, in heaven’s name why are they permitted to enrol in a state-funded university ??
The blithering stupidity of Britain’s authorities defies credibility.
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
GODDAMNED uk deserves no sympathy at all from Hindus. They can never be punished enough for the atrocities wrought by them on Bharath & Hindus of Bharath.
Phil Copson says
JR – it’s that kind of vicious thinking that has kept ancient hatreds festering for centuries. Is there any British person alive today who took part in any atrocity in Bharath ? No. Have you personally suffered at the hands of any passing British brigadier ? No again, so what are you chuntering on about ?
Would you like to be held personally responsible for deaths that took place during centuries of wars between rival rajahs ?
It’s too late and pointless now to argue about the rights and wrongs of past empires, whether British, Byzantine, or Babylonian.That is the way the world was. Without pretending to have any particular expertise on world history and that of the Indian sub-continent in particular, I suggest that you calm down and think about this for a moment.
War and bloody conquest was the way of the world for thousands of years; you are just indignant because it was a European country that became the ruling power for a while. Are you saying that British rule was worse than being invaded by Genghis Khan or being part of the Ottoman Empire ? India was going to be part of somebody’s Empire, and it was better to be part of ours than to be run by the Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese etc.
If you were to check out the frequency and death-toll in wars across India during the past thousand years, I bet my bottom dollar that the period of British rule was the most peaceful India has ever had. And the moment we pulled out, it turned back into a blood-bath.
Maybe instead of lusting for the blood of innocent children, you should be thanking us on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of Hindus who didn’t die during the years of Pax Britannica ? Or paying us for the infrastructure we left behind ? Or putting a stop to suttee ? Because I bet there were one hell of a lot of Indian widows who were bloody glad that the British District Officer controlled their village rather than the village headman ?
Every generation has the chance to wipe the slate clean and start again; Europeans don’t look for bloody revenge against the countries of the Axis Powers for events that happened within living memory, so why are you harping on about the events of hundreds of years ago ? It’s pathetic.
Your thinking, that you want to see the mass murder of people who have never done you any harm is exactly the thinking of the Palestinian Authority, and Islam in general – taking little children and teaching them to hate.
Snap out of it, we have a shared history that we should learn from, not a script to re-enact at every opportunity.
Otherwise – Janakiraman Rajalakshmi – we may once again be asking: “Who shot JR?”
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
The british never truly left India. The legacy still continues in the form of rotten constitution that was dictated to ambedkar by the british.
Do not try to justify british brutalities by writing it happened in the past. That way Manchester bombing is also ‘past’.
I am NOT the one “lusting for the blood of innocent “. Hindus living in western countries & Muslim countries never sit & hatch such terrorist acts.
The ruin wrought by muslim invaders & their rule followed by christian invaders & their rule in Hindus’ Bharath are seldom taught threadbare & discussed in India. Instead history books written by leftists funded by british teach us Hindus only doctored history.
There was never a time when christians & muslims were not waging bloody wars.
Do not bracket Hindus with christians & muslims.
gravenimage says
It looks as though Janakiraman Rajalakshmi considers democracy in India to be “rotten”.
Perhaps he prefers the horrors of Shari’ah law?
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
It is Hindu hating countries like uk & to some extent America’s christian mafia that fund leftists like romila thapars , amartya sens , arundati suzanne roys etc to churn out ‘atrocity literature’ on Hindus.
It is our Maker’s way of serving just desserts through such alleged bomb blasts.
All christian organizations remit money to various NGOs in India to evangelize through inculturations.
Yet uk’s teresa may on her visit to India shamelessly wore a saree , entered Hindus’ Temple & “prayed”.
Such supercilious christians ought to go to churches that are ubiquitous all over India ( the brits colonized & lorded over us for centuries) & thumb through their bibles.
Instead christians have long stolen Hindus Upanishads & various Spiritual Scriptures . Today sit & scream at jihadists.
WPM says
The Islamics think all no-Islamic are Kafir, Christian ,Jew Hindu, stop wishing jihad on non Hindu. Christians are not raping ,murdering ,or forcing you to become Christian. Teresa May is an idiot so are many Western ,Eastern , and Indian leaders. Wishing violent jihad on the general population because of leaders that are not informed of your local customs makes you as bad as the jihadist. You have been free of British rule for over 70 years ,Europe is a major trading partner of Indian, many Indians and Europeans are happy to do business together ,they benefit from open trade. You have more to fear from your next door neighbors then far away Europeans. In your neighbors heart the main export to you is jihade and jihadist!
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
Christians are as violent as muslims.
Media in India is mostly owned by various evangelical organizations. Hence the chicanery of christian mafia go unreported. Naxalites of India are funded by christian mafia. Read about christian Inquisitions in Goa. All the Hindu children , women & men who refused to convert were tortured & killed in gruesome ways. All Brahmins were slaughtered. Temples were destroyed.
Do not imagine that was in the past. Stealth christians have almost colonized entire Southern India . Many retain Hindu names but are christians.
The exodus of Hindus including Brahmins to America , Europe was triggered by christians & their footsoldiers in India. Most of Hindus’ Temple Lands were confiscated by british christians. And heavily plundered.
uk enriched itself by only PLUNDERING India & various other countries colonized by uk.
gravenimage says
Your idea that Jihadists are doing the maker’s work is just grotesque.
Surely you don’t feel the same way when Muslims are murdering Hindu people?
The fact is that Jihad targets *all* of us. I will stand with you against Jihad–will you stand with non-Hindus?
Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says
gravenimage a rabid christian shedding faux tears for Hindus killed by muslims reminds me of a Panchathantra Tale wherein a wily wolf sheds copious tears for the rain sodden sheep.
It is Pakistan a muslim country that is a staunch ally of America. Pakistan also happens to be an ally of uk. Taleban was formed by Pakistani muslims. It is America that came up with “good taleban versus bad taleban”.
It is uk & America that gave sophisticated arms missiles included to muslim mujahideens in Afghanistan. Don’t I know you people would always justify citing Russia or xyz for your own errors of omission & commission.
America has always been supplying weapons & plenty of dollars calling them “aid” to muslim Pakistan which they use to attack Hindus & Hindu Army & Hindu Police Force.
Both christians & muslims are abominably covetous. Muslims call it jihad & christians call it democracy human rights industrialization. That is the only difference.
It is uk that willingly welcomed & welcomes many muslims into their country.
All of us know how much your royal family is dependent on Saudi Arabia.
Spare me your faux rants on human rights. Do read about one british christian arthur clarke a paedophile settled down in SriLanka . Vatican ratzinger to royal family of uk & Pentagon knew he was a paedophile. Yet were comfortable shaking hands with him & posing for many photographs.
Christian papacy & paedophilia are inseparable. Within India too christians are seldom punished for sodomy , murders & various crimes. They end up as preachers , principals & teachers.
David Barrett says
Stupid Brits. Not only were they warned [ and chose to ignore] they even funded his trips and purchases.
Stop being politically correct!!!! Just like Abbas paying jailed Arab murderers in Israel. Unfortunately it seems that the west will never comprehend the east. My question is – how many more will have to die before you wake up?
Peterson says
These this were known to Brits for many years. If then had missed it for some reason at least then known it now. Is anything going to change. It will go on like this time next terrorist attack then again we will listen the some thing. The only two people serious about this issue is Trump and Putin.
John A. Marre says
There are many more in the UK who are living a life of luxury while the poor White suckers are forced to go out and work every day, and have half of their earnings seized to ensure that the Muslims don’t miss breakfast.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Again, Enoch Powell is proved correct.
Tom says
Cut them off social assistance and make them do hard manual labour every day to qualify for it. That will make them appreciate the help they get and keep their minds busy and their bodies tired, too busy and too tired to be thinking constantly of how to kill their hosts.
Sarah says
I have no idea why anyone would be surprised by this knowledge, or bother to be outraged by it.
After all, when was the last time we heard of a Muslim who committed a terror attack who was an upstanding member of the community, who actually worked for a living and paid taxes and toed the line?
If the British Government want to work out who amongst them are the most dangerous, they can start with every single lazy ass Muslim lining up with their hands out each fortnight for their welfare cheque.
Clearly they have enough time on their hands to plot and plan against the hand that feeds them. A good start would be to kick every single Muslim out of the nation, permanently, who has been on the dole or some kind of sickness pension for more than a year.
Dead weight. That’s all they are. Dead weight that has the very real potential to turn around and slaughter everyone within reach.