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Hungarian counter-terrorism officers apprehended a Syrian national, in Budapest last week, who had been identified as a high-ranking member of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). The suspected terrorist, posing as a refugee, reportedly received a prepaid debit card from the EU upon his arrival in Europe - one of 64,000 individuals to receive the taxpayer-subsidized cards.
While the EU insists that a strict screening process is used to ensure the euro handouts reach the right people, the Hungarian government has argued that the embarrassing discovery highlights the grave security threat facing Europe, as jihadists fleeing the Middle East seek refuge abroad.
Philip Ingram, a former British military intelligence officer, agreed, telling RT that Europe must become more diligent as Islamic militants flee Syria and Iraq. "We're seeing a time of transition. They'll transition into something different. This is a very, very dangerous and difficult period, and we need to monitor that transition very closely, to be able to identify and track known jihadists that are coming through," he said.
Comment: Social and environmental justice warriors and anti-capitalist activists of all types would do well to read a little real history before they roundly denounce the 'modern world'. It is true that we live in an increasingly dystopian society, but that is largely due to the lack of truly moral guidance from authorities and cannot reasonably be laid at the door of technological progress. Indeed, without the creature comforts of modern technology, the immorality of modern Western life would likely be too much to bear.
At the same time, modern creature comforts have led many people to passively accept or ignore the immorality that defines modern Western culture and encouraged the 'social justice' types to misjudge what should be railed against and what should be left well alone. Indeed, a major part of the immorality sweeping Western society is the result of modern technology and comforts that allows fanatical social justice warriors the time and means to promote their twisted view of reality far and wide.