Michael Kaus, Slate: Does Welfare Cause Terrorism?
Here are some suspected terrorists in the news:
* Zacarias Moussaoui, the French North African charged with conspiracy in connection with the 9/11 attack, became an Islamic radical living in London "while drawing welfare benefits and studying economics," Newsday reports.
* Ahmed Ressam, the member of Algeria's Armed Islamic Group who was arrested crossing the U.S. border with bombs designed to blow up L.A.'s airport, moved to Canada in 1994 where he "survived on welfare payments" and petty crime, according to terrorism expert Peter Bergen.
* Metin Kaplan, who heads a German radical Islamist sect suspected of attempting to fly a plane into the Ataturk mausoleum in Turkey, "claimed social [welfare] benefits in Cologne for many years until 2m Deutschmarks ($1.2m) in cash was found in his flat," reports the BBC.
* Abu Qatada, the cleric who taught Moussaoui and is accused of having links to al-Qaida agents in six countries, avoided extradition to Jordan on terrorism charges by settling in England, where "[l]ike many other London-based Arab dissidents, [he] has received regular welfare checks from the British government—and government subsidized housing," according to the Washington Post. Abu Qatada's welfare payments were stopped when it was discovered he controlled a secret bank account containing approximately $270,000.
Do you see a pattern? There's a story here! And it's not as crazy or demagogic as it seems.
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WNU Editor: Welfare does not cause terrorism .... but it is true that a lot of terrorists have been found to be receiving some form of government assistance.
Update: Forget about welfare and terrorism .... you know that economically this is not going to end well for Sweden .... Fewer than 500 of 163,000 asylum seekers found jobs (Local.se).
Michael Kaus doesn't have a clue, does he.
ReplyDeleteI have relatives in France. They are not white. I have heard of discrimination on the job from them.
ReplyDeleteI have also seen 1st hand discrimination, where a relative, who is a French speaker, was not given directions to Mont Saint-Michel. We were probably on the D275 and lost in a small town to the south of Saint Michel. We stopped at a supermarket and our French speaking relative / guide / driver went inside to get directions. They could not get directions.
We pulled out of the entrance/exit to the supermarket of than the one we came into the parking lot and took a right and immediately saw Saint-Michel. We could not see it from the parking lot due to the super market building.
This was rampant discrimination. We could not even get directions and we were all but there. It was very pig headed. The cure that most liberals want to impose would be worse than the disease IMO.
These relatives are relatively poor and are non-French. But I don't see them resorting to terrorism like the Muslims.
Their kids have French 1st banes and speak French. They are French.
Michael Kaus is a little bit right. But given that these people are Muslims they would probably hate the French given any degree or discrimination or no discrimination. Face it, Muslims are chavaunistic.
Slate is probably in line with what I have heard and know about Vox and Gawker. Rabid Leftists.