IS’s twisted Christmas appeal: Mug a drunk and send us the cash
A NOTORIOUS British jihadi fighting in Syria has called on Islamic State supporters to mug drunken revellers and send the money to the terror group.
In a warped Christmas appeal, former Morrisons security guard Omar Hussain, 28, urged militants to steal money and mobile phones to fund global terrorism. In a rambling message using the mobile phone app Kik, Hussain – dubbed the ‘Supermarket jihadi’ – says: ‘The time of year is coming again where getting ghaneemah [war booty] from the kuffar [non-believers] couldn’t b any easier. Christmas time the kuffar are loaded with money.
‘Wait around the corner from a pub at night… It only takes a few punches for a drunk kafir to fall unconscious. Take a few ikhwa [brothers] with u and u can rob him of all his things. From watches, jewellery, money, phone, jacket, etc.’
He says victims will not be able to call police because their mobile phones will have gone and they will also be too drunk to remember their assailant’s features.
Hussain, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, had further exchanges on Kik with a Mail on Sunday reporter, who asked him if Raqqa – the terror group’s de facto capital in Syria – was under siege from Kurdish fighters, as reported in the world’s media.
Hussain said: ‘Lol [laugh out loud] raqqa is not under siege. Where did u get that from?’ He said he was ready to become a martyr if Raqqa was attacked.