[lit-ideas] Re: British support of Omar Bakri Muhammed
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:39:18 -0000
More innacuracies.
Bawer says that, "Even his car had been acquired free of charge under a
government program" Which is false. The Motability scheme requires payment. See:
http://www.motability.co.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?nodeid=89578
That took me three minutes to find on the net - most of it spent locating the
Telegraph article. It's a shame Bawer didn't spend more time on his research.
Also note that Omar's wife most likely receives Child Benefit payments for her
children in with her benefit package, which 'is thought to' amount to £1,300
per month. Would it have been better for the children to starve?
I do have concern for Lawrence's reading.
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:41 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] British support of Omar Bakri Muhammed
Bruce Bawer in his While Europe Slept, How Radical Islam is destroying the
West from Within, 2006 addresses at one point the benefits Muslims (including
Islamists) can get from the various European nations. Britain was not exempt
from his criticism:
On page 31 he writes, "After the 2005 terrorist attacks on London, it emerged
that the four suspects had raked in more than half a million pounds in welfare
benefits from the British government. The Telegraph reported, too, that
Hizb-ut-Tahris founder Omar Bakri Muhammed (who preached that 'we will conquer
the White House . . . we will be in charge and Muslims will control the earth')
was getting "L331.28 a month in incapacity benefit and L183.30 a month in
disability living allowance''; in addition, he collected a 'housing benefit'
and a 'council tax benefit,' not to mention his wife's welfare intake of 'at
least L1,300 a month.' (Curiously, no mention was made of child benefits for
his seven progeny.) Even his car had been acquired free of charge under a
government program."
Further down he quotes Bernard Lewis who in July 2004 "predicted that Europe
would be Islamic by the end of the century." With Europeans treating its
immigrants so royally, why should it not?
Lawrence
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