“Miss Jihad” Collects Unemployment Benefits

A quote from The International Herald Tribune, 27 May 2008 and The New York Times, 28 May 2008

On the street [in Brussels], Malika El Aroud is anonymous in an Islamic black veil covering all but her eyes. In her living room, El Aroud, a 48-year-old Belgian, wears the ordinary look of middle age: a plain black T-shirt and pants and curly brown hair. The only adornment is a pair of powder-blue slippers monogrammed in gold with the letters SEXY. But it is on the Internet that El Aroud has distinguished herself. Writing in French under the name Oum Obeyda, she has transformed herself into one of the most prominent Internet jihadists in Europe.

She calls herself a female holy warrior for Al Qaeda. She insists that she does not disseminate instructions on bomb-making and has no intention of taking up arms herself. Rather, she browbeats Muslim men to go and fight, and rallies women to join the cause. […] She was detained last December with 13 others in a suspected plot to free a convicted terrorist from prison and to mount an attack in Brussels. But Belgian law required that they be released within 24 hours because no charges were brought and searches failed to turn up weapons, explosives or incriminating documents.

Now, even as El Aroud remains under constant surveillance, she is back home rallying militants on her Web site -- and collecting more than $1,100 a month in government unemployment benefits. "Her jihad is not to lead an operation but to inspire other people to wage jihad," said Glenn Audenaert, the director of Belgium's federal police force. "She enjoys the protection that Belgium offers. At the same time, she is a potential threat."

Born in Morocco, raised from a young age in Belgium, El Aroud [...] operates from her three-room apartment above a clothing shop in a working-class Brussels neighborhood where she spends her time communicating with supporters on her main forum, Minbar-SOS. Although she insists she is not breaking the law, she knows the police are watching. And if the authorities find way to put her in prison, she said: "That would be great. They would make me a living martyr."

@ FLLegal and onecent Your

@ FLLegal and onecent

Your anger and frustration is nothing compared to how many Europeans are feeling.

More and more Europeans are getting really tired of the political and “cultural” elite, their acceptance of everything “exotic” and hatred of their own people. This is combined with the usual corruption of power which makes people who initially had some common sense become more interested in short term personal gains save long term societal survival.

Regarding huge strikes and road blocks, you both know that is not possible by now. It never happens in a time where most people still get their daily bread and entertainment (and an iPod). Especially not in a Europe where the vast majority has experienced nothing but peace and prosperity for more than sixty years. We have had nothing to fight for and we have gotten used to secularization, democracy and freedom of speech. Most Europeans can’t in their wildest dreams imagine that their countries should experience anything worse than a mild inflation and maybe a little gang violence. For people to realize the graveness of the situation we need to be very, very pressured.

There is some hope though. It is very clear that more and more people are waking up. You will not believe the change that has happened in peoples’ minds during the last 10 years. In the 90s any criticism (no matter how small) of islam would immediately lead to accusations of racism and Nazism from all layers of society. Today these accusations only come from “the good people”, usually high income reality-distanced naivists (you now, the NY-Times segment) and their yelling is getting more and more frustrated and more and more extreme, a good sign that they feel pressured. The whole immigration debate has also changed from accepting anything because it is their culture, to requiring that they integrate (even though the solutions to integration usually are idiotic and ineffective).

Among the majority there is now a feeling that something is not right, and that measures need to be taken to ensure our safety. It is not yet awareness per se, but unquestionably a slow awakening.

Regarding elections there are some big problems to overcome. Most parties are either avoiding the problem or promoting immigration. The parties which are raising the islam problem have often been demonized by the “good people” since the times when criticism was regarded racist, and it is a big step for people to vote for these parties, because they consider it as the final recognition of the Islamic evil. They finally have to admit to themselves that everything they were taught (and believed) regarding the “beauty of multiculturalism” is a lie. But still these parties are gaining votes in pretty much every election in pretty much all of Europe.

I have no doubt that the European peoples (in plural because we are not one people) are waking up, even the dhimmified Swedes I talk with (one on one, and especially after a beer or two) appreciate that this is going very wrong. But it is a very slow road and the question is; will we awake before a bloodbath is inevitable, unfortunately I don’t believe so. The good thing is that if we win that future fight, we will have learned a hell of a lot about survival and of political correctness.

I base my impression of what we Europeans think on three factors 1. My personal experiences: I live abroad my own country, most of my friends are from all around Europe, I travel a lot and I talk to people of all layers of society. 2. Election results and opinion polls in Europe 3. How I experience the shift in the public discourse. I purposely leave the European Union and its undermining of our civil liberties out of this debate, even though it has some relevance.

A short comment on the American situation: You too have some huge issues with the demographic shift you are experiencing. Be careful not to lay your focus entirely on our problems. Obama on one hand and the liberal Republican, McCain, on the other hand are not good options to solve these problems.

@RettenTilselforsvar

Well, do something then.......take a lesson from the Poles of Solidarity era, civil disobedience is either now or never.

A lot of Europeans deserve their burqas, especially the Swedes and amoral Dutch. Stupid, grazing sheeple, ever so willing to let their children inherit the cesspool of Islamification.

Trust me, Americans reacted to 9/11 unlike their spineless Euroweenie counterpart, that's what the Bush years have been about. We aren't like you. Sure Obama could take the WH for a few years, but, contempt for quislings and national pride will rear it's head again here just like with Jimmy Carter. And, in Europe, there isn't even a moan that you are roadkill to the socialist and their compadres the Islamists.

I have no doubt that Europeans will be increasingly passive dhimmis, they are now.

I suggest you immigrate now because looking over your shoulder there is no one that cares enough to change things.

Onecent, You don't read what

Onecent,
You don't read what I wrote, you just continue along the track you laid in the beginning. I'm telling you that people ARE reacting and that a slow but steady progress is happening. At least you could comment on my writing instead of just stating the enviable collapse of Europe without any arguments to support this.

You have your own big problems since Americans of European descend are slowly becoming a minority in your country. I don't believe your situation is more favorable than ours, and even if it was I would never move there because I love Europe and i love my country. I'd rather die than immigrate and leave my people behind.

I'd also do anything to support my American brothers and sisters and I hate to hear Europeans show disrespect to Americans, but I also hate to hear Americans being condescending towards us Europeans. We should stand together.

AMEN RettenTilSelvforsvar AMEN!

RettenTilSelvforsvar wrote: "...I hate to hear Europeans show disrespect to Americans, but I also hate to hear Americans being condescending towards us Europeans. We should stand together."

AMEN RettenTilSelvforsvar AMEN!

spineless Euroweenie

@ 1c:
By using phrases like "spineless Euroweenie" you are debasing the debate and you sound like a neocon. (The neocons are traitors who claim that America has nothing to do with Europe, and encourage Americans to support the suicidal immigration policy while making fun of Europeans.)

You should recognize that a mass displacement of the American population has been going on for decades. Ordinary Americans have not been able to stop that policy, and they are about to become a minority in their own country. So, I think the situation is even worse in the US than in Europe.

"Sure Obama could take the WH for a few years, but, contempt for quislings. . ."

It is more than a few quislings, you have millions of brainwashed people. Anyway, Obama cannot be much worse than his predecessors who allowed the disastrous immigration policy to happen.

"I have no doubt that Europeans will be increasingly passive dhimmis, they are now"

A dhimmi is a non-muslim person being subjected to a low status by a prevailing muslim population. But in Europe and the US, we are being dispossessed by our own leftist administrations, not by our muslim immigrants, who are too stupid to run a European country, even if they were a majority. So, technically, it has more to do with sado-masochism than with dhimmitude.

This Woman Enrages Me & I'm not even a Belgium...

In political or just plain ole' "common sense" terms, we call this "treason" and/or giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

This Woman Enrages Me & I'm not even a Belgium...

"She enjoys the protection that Belgium offers. At the same time, she is a potential threat."

And she lives off the backs of the Belgium taxpayer. That treasonous piece of trash (I'm being nice here) needs to have a job or two, so she won't have the time to suck the taxpayers dry and wage a jihadist war against her own nation. Oh the welfare socialist state and Islamism, such a perfect match made in "heaven". Jihadists, i.e. Islamic fascists or simply Muslims, are living off the dole throughout Europe and Great Britain, supporting their wives and large number of children, as many of them plot and plan (or simply do nothing and be silent about the evil done in the name of their "Religon of Peace") to bring the government and the masses under submission to the barbaric unenlightened political & religious tyranny of Islam & Sharia law.

The woman needs a trial for being a traitor, then a noose or a bullet. The fact that we are at war with Islam, yet the leadership is to dhimmi, deluded and foolish to recognize such, I wouldn't lose any sleep if the government decided to forego the trial as to such Muslims as this treasonous woman.

I've taken a speech of General Stonewall Jackson from the movie "Gods & Generals", and have adapted and modified it to the current Islamic invasion, both within and without, of Europe which is as follows:

Show them the black flag giving the Islamic enemy no quarter.

If I had my way we would show no quarter to the Islamic enemy. The black flag Sir. If the Muslims triumph, it is not alone the destruction of our property. It is the prelude to tyranny, slavery - the ultimate loss of freedom and responsible enlightened government on this continent. It is the triumph of fascism, barbaric sharia law over common law, and of the false "crescent moon god Allah" for a season. We should meet the Islamic invader on the outer verge of just and right defence and the enemy within as well and raise at once the black flag. No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides... Our political leadership in Brussels and throughout the political capitals of Western Europe are too timid and dhimmi to face the reality of this war and the gathering storm of civil war to come. Only the black flag will bring the Muslims quickly to their senses for it is the only "language" these barbarians understand.

@FFLegal

Sorry, but, you are really letting the European masses off of the hook. That their "elites" are creeps is a given, so, what does a responsible citizen do in that case? If election choices are an abomination, there is always civil disobedience and mass demonstratons on the streets. The EU isn't the old USSR with bullets for the dissidents yet. A peaceful revolution with all of the tools of the internet, cellphone age are easy to arrange.

You and I both are screeching to deaf ears because basically Europeans aren't going to save themselves. They are risk averse sheep who at heart don't feel their culture is worth saving or they'd be mad as hell and public about it. What matters is that Americans understand this and never waste one life to ever again liberate Europeans from their decadence and stupidity.

I can empathize with the masses, i.e. the common "infidel" man

onecent stated, "Sorry, but, you are really letting the European masses off of the hook."

Perhaps I have, but I can't help but understand their confusion, despair, and feelings of betrayal for their own leadership is betraying them. I can understand their frustration for the system works against them to muzzle their free speech and make them the problem when they are not the problem.

I'm frustrated with America, as an American, and I feel at a loss here. We have three candidates, Hillary Clinton a pathological liar and liberal, Barak Hussein Obama bin Laden, who claims to be a Christian (apostate Muslim since he was born and raised a Muslim which he has lied about as well) and I believe that to be a lie, i.e. that he really is a Christian, who has been caught in lies, who has close associations with known American terrorists, Communists, Marxists, Muslims like Louis Farrakhan, racist black preachers who preach Marxist liberation "theology" like Reverend Wright, just to name a few problems and/or issues, and a Republican John McCain, who believes in the hoax of global warming as do Obama & Clinton, amnesty for illegal aliens as do Obama & Clinton, just to name a few other problems and/or issues. I am frustrated for I don't feel like I have a choice. I will either hold my nose and vote for McCain or quite possibly not vote for President at all.

I can empathize with the common man of Europe, albeit the "circumstances" here have not advanced to the degree Europe has and the direction this country is heading here are not as dire as there yet. At least here we still have our guns, but if Obama becomes President with a Democratic Congress, then I would not be surprised that Obama would sign and Congress ratify the U.N. treaty that would emasculate our 2nd amendment. Such ratified treaty would become the law of the land. If Obama becomes President, with a willing leftist liberal leaning Congress, they will destroy the America that our ancestors fought for and the America that I love.

Perhaps we in the West need to learn some lessons from the formerly oppressed peoples of eastern Europe. Mass demonstrations and complete shut down of the government by national strikes which paralyze the government and industry. What if the masses just went all on strike? What if they all peacefully blocked the roads? I know if I lived in Britain I would move to Australia for the Aussies won't put up with all the Islamic crap like the Brits will.

Whether we like it or not, America, unless it too succombs to the tyranny of Islam with the aid of the dhimmi, the socialists, the leftists, the idiot liberal Democrats and Republicans, the politically correct, and the multi-culturalists in this country, will have to one day, as well, deal with the Islamic enemy within and the enemy in Europe, i.e. an Islamic Europe, for they in Europe want an Islamic world and not just an Islamic Europe. If Europe becomes Islamic, we may have to wage war against Europe, not per se to save the Europeans, but to protect ourselves and our shores from the jihad conducted from European shores as we fight the jihad waged on our own shores.

onecent, perhaps we are screeching to deaf ears in Europe, but then again I see alot of people in this country with deaf ears as well along with blind eyes. There are also risk averse sheep here in America and I believe their numbers are growing, who at heart don't feel their culture is worth saving and in fact they hate their own country. They are part of the hate and blame America first crowd. They want to see America brought down and they will use tactics like the hoax of global warming and/or massive transfers of wealth to cripple America's economy to bring about a globalist and socialist world. Obama is their current "Messiah".

Decadence and stupidity are not the exclusive province of Europe for I see plenty of it in America as well.

But I really can't argue with you for I sense your frustration and I have such frustration myself in the tragic direction Europe, the West, and America are headed. I just have to realize that the true God of the universe, i.e. the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and not the false crescent moon "god" called Allah, is in control. Islam may win many victories and enslave most of the world, but in the end the true God of the universe will deal with Islam sending such evil to hell where the false prophet Mohammad already is.

In the end, evil and tyranny will not ultimately triumph. But the road there will be rough and deadly for many of us who will never submit.

@FFLegal

I worry too. Obama is a vacuous lefty goof with the shelf life of a Jimmy Carter if he captures the White House. It's possible, but, correctable.

We aren't passive surrenderers like Europeans who deserve so far their burqas and Orwellian socialist nightmare.

To any American paying attention the fate of Europe is pretty defined at this point. Fascism in whatever form is their default position.

I invite any European to weigh in and share with us just how they are countering the consequences of socialism and Muslim immigration.

The EU deserves her

That this disgusting sociopath is protected and sheltered in Brussels, and you can bet she is a well known entity there, and that she hasn't been thrown out of the EU is stomach churning. She and her ilk I'm sure are well established in every major city in Europe. I don't know who I have more contempt for, vile homicidal creeps like her or the Europeans that accomodate them. You can blame the political elites to a point, but, the hubris, ignorance and passivity of the native European sheeple is just as disgusting.

 

There will be no public outcry, nor street demonstration, nor a swarm of angry young bloggers demanding the press and politicians take notice and correct this. Count on that.  You can also count on Americans never ever again lifting a finger to help Europeans out of the rot they have again descended into. 

@ the social security drawing murderer

I am 100% sure you knew about and you co-planned the murder of Mahsood. Doesn't that make you an accessory to murder? I am sure you are. Who obtained fake papers for your husband? You?
BTW Mahsood was a muslim and a decent one at that, I can testify to that. He considered Al Quaeda a gang of murdering thugs and false muslims.

renounce her religion

"They would make me a living martyr." - By its very definition a martyr is dead. :-)

Even if the living adjective were to be entertained, then it would not apply because she is not going to goal for failing to renounce her religion.

re: to belong

Belgian ? I thought you were the one who didn't believe in the segregation of humankind by national boundaries.

"And if the authorities find

"And if the authorities find way to put her in prison, she said: 'That would be great. They would make me a living martyr'"

I have a much better idea than imprisonment: Throw her out of the country, back where she belongs.

@ kappert

Who is this "We" you mention? Don't you mean "You"? And if you do, perhaps you could tell us if you agree with this particular example of "lobbying".  

lobbying

I think AIPAC does very much the same on a much larger scale, certainly more influential than a girl with sexy slippers. On BJ you can even hear voices demanding Europe to be a 'sanctuary for native people'. So we have these kind of promoters everywhere.