What with London house prices being what they are, you wonder how he managed it, but of course Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, who ‘ran the group’s terrorist operations in the West Bank’, according to the Sunday Times, managed to buy his property with help from the council.
Despite being a known and wanted terrorist, Sawalha was allowed to settle in Britain in the 1990s and obtain British citizenship. He continued to work for Hamas, holding talks about committing terrorist acts and laundering money for the group, according to the US Department of Justice. In 2009 he signed the Istanbul Declaration which praised God for having ‘routed the Zionist Jews’, and called for a ‘Third Jihadist Front’ to be ‘opened in Palestine alongside Iraq and Afghanistan’, according to the paper.
All the while he was benefitting from Britain’s social housing system. … This is despite the fact that in 2006 Panorama reported that Sawalha was ‘said to have masterminded much of Hamas’ political and military strategy’ and that, ‘although he was known to MI5, the “authorities let him operate freely here”’. Not just let him operate freely, but sort him out with a house – and if you think this sounds insane, it is not at all uncommon.
(via NRO)
[The Brits are only doing formally what we’re doing informally with our southern border. We are allowing mass waves of migrants to establish themselves by overwhelming the asylum process. We won’t discover the threats until they actually act out, by which time it will be too late. — Ed]
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