Friday, May 15, 2015

Sweden Bribes Terrorists to Return

Sweden's welfare bonanza for returning ISIS jihadists 'They should be helped to process the traumatic experiences they have been through' by Chelsea Shilling 5/14/15 
When the Islamic State terrorists are ready to retire from beheading, crucifying and burning innocent human beings, they will now enjoy a nice benefits package in Stockholm, Sweden, that includes free housing, health care and financial support.
In fact, Sweden’s own soldiers don’t even get the same benefits.
And some officials are suggesting the law-abiding population pay for the services so ISIS fighters can reintegrate into society.
A program to help ISIS fighters rejoin society is already in place in Sweden’s Örebro Municipality, where jihadists can obtain “psychological help to overcome traumatic experiences they may have suffered while fighting in Iraq and Syria,” according to Business Insider Australia.
The Swedish newspaper Expressen reported that councilor Rasmus Persson advocates offering terrorists jobs so they don’t feel alienated. Stockholm has released a document outlining its “strategy against violent extremism.”
Persson told the news program Tvärsnytt, “We have discussed how we should work for these guys who have come back, and to prevent them from returning to the fighting, and that they should be helped to process the traumatic experiences they have been through.”
Now the idea is spreading to other parts of the country. Sweden’s official coordinator against violent extremism, Mona Sahlin – a former leader of the Social Democrat Party – advocated using taxpayer funds to pay for the services.
After learning of the plan, one Swedish soldier stationed in Kabul during his third mission in Afghanistan posted a challenge on Facebook. He asked that Sweden extend the program to its own warriors returning from duty.
“In a few months, I’m back in Sweden after being deployed in Afghanistan, against the Taliban and others who have really jeopardizing development in this very sore country,” Frederick Brandberg wrote.
“There is no permanent job waiting for me when I come home.”
Brandberg added, “It would be wonderful if I was met with a comparable program after my homecoming, after which I could feel safe in having a regular job, with monthly income and a social stable situation in the society where I wouldn’t need to wonder whether I’m wanted or not.”
In November 2014, the Swedish government estimated between 250 and 300 of its citizens have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS.
Just two months ago, Sweden’s national job agency fired all of its own contracted “immigrant resettlement assistants” because they were recruiting fighters for ISIS.
Sahlin admits Swedish immigration policy has failed. She says she is more worried today than she was a year ago, because Swedish school children are now playing ISIS games in preschool.
She told Expressen, “When I talk to a preschool teacher who says that kids at her kindergarten are playing ISIS outside, or when I hear about young people who ask: ‘Are you Sunni or Shia?,’ then it has gone much further than I thought.”
Sahlin added, “A large part of the authorities in Sweden have abdicated our suburbs. And we are also afraid to touch issues regarding religion. The debate stops because we are too ignorant and too cowardly to challenge the extreme interpretation of a religion that ISIS is based upon, and which also exists in our country.”
The plan to rehabilitate jihadists has been drawing widespread criticism online, where readers have posted the following comments:
  • “All of them should just get a bullet in the head upon return”
  • “How will they differentiate between a person who genuinely regrets joining ISIS and those who are returning just to spread the violence and the ideology in Sweden?”
  • “This has been done before, and we’ve had jihadists who have returned for medical reasons only to go back later”
  • “They’re inviting more problems for themselves”
  • “Assuming that ISIS fighters are generally good sounds like a suicidal recipe. That’s like assuming a convicted child molester has generally good intentions toward children”
  • “So this effectively makes terrorism legal (if the terrorist regrets it). Who the f— thought that was a good idea?”
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/swedens-welfare-bonanza-for-returning-isis-jihadists/

 

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