This week has been one of light posting, and the next few will be too. This is partly because of Christmas, but mainly because December and January are two of our busiest months at work. I would spend far more time doing my bit for the counterjihad, were I not constrained by the necessity of earning a living.

Muslims who receive the jizyah, whether in the form of aid, unearned oil money, or, in the UK and Europe, the dole, are under no such constraints. They can plot jihad, and engage in da'wa and even demographic conquest with no economic consequences. In the UK, because of our over-generous welfare state, they do not need to conform and adapt, even outwardly, in order to earn a living. They can have all the children they want - children who, but for that welfare state, would starve, or would not have been born in the first place, but who must now be supported by hard-working taxpayers, forced to deny and indeed limit their own families. Time is money, and unearned money - jizyah - means that time can be made for jihad.

I recently wrote a piece for Pajamas Media entitled Jihad Made in Britain, in which I touch on the relationship between welfare payments and jihad. Commenting on this piece, Rusty Shackleford says:

It's not just that Europeans bend over backwards to accommodate the demands of Muslims, it's that they subsidize the very people making those demands.

Why assimilate when the government will pay you to sit on your ass and make YouTube videos all day about how unjust and oppressive that very government is to Muslims?

Think I'm wrong? Recall that even though Omar Bakri Mohammed has been barred from coming back to Britain, that his wife and kids still live in London off government welfare. It's one thing to sit at home wearing a burka, but try to go get a job wearing one and let's see where that gets you. Or how about starting a business wearing the attire of choice for young Islamists in the U.K., M. C. Hammer pants?

Hell, if Uncle Sam would provide free food, shelter, clothing, and health insurance to my wife and kids I might grow a beard and start a death cult myself!

Of course, without Islam, all the welfare payments in the world would not produce jihad. But the converse, that the necessity of struggling for survival, can inhibit jihadist tendencies, is almost certainly true. This is a very good reason for cutting off all aid to Muslim countries, reducing oil consumption and reforming welfare. There are other reasons for doing these things: aid is bad for non-Muslim countries too (look at the billions wasted on Africa); excessive fuel consumption is ruining the planet; and welfare is unfair on taxpayers. But above all, let's stop paying for jihad. Can there be many, if any, examples of a civilisation paying for its own destruction?