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Muslim cleric from UK now head of Islamic State in Somalia

Apr 29, 2016 12:13 pm By Robert Spencer

What about all the people he taught in Britain? Where are they now? Does anyone in Britain know or care?

Sheiky Abdulqadir Mumin

“British extremist preacher linked to Lee Rigby killers emerges as head of Islamic State in Somalia,” by Colin Freeman, Telegraph, April 29, 2016:

A British extremist preacher linked to the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby has surfaced in an Islamic State propaganda video as the head of its new franchise in Somalia.

Sheiky Abdulqadir Mumin, who preached at mosques in London, fled to Somalia after being investigated by M15 for radicalising young men with his fiery sermons.

The henna-bearded militant, who burned his British passport on arrival in Somalia, has now re-emerged in a video shot in northern Somalia in which he leads a faction pledging allegiance to Isil’s Iraqi leader, Abubakr al-Baghdadi.

In the 15-minute broadcast, he presides over a group of heavily-armed fighters as they raise the black Islamic State flag and perform military drills in a remote mountain area.

Mumin’s presence in Somalia is likely alarm British security chiefs, given his alleged record as a recruiter of young Muslim radicals for the cause of violent jihad in Somalia and elsewhere.

The cleric was a visiting speaker at a mosque in London around the time it was attended by Michael Adebolajo, one of the two men jailed for the meat-cleaver murder of Drummer Lee Rigby at Woolwich Arsenal in 2013.

Mohammed Emwazi, the militant better known as Jihadi John, is understood to have occasionally attended the same mosque.

Somali-born Mumin, who arrived in Britain around ten years ago, is also believed to have done “outreach” work on the streets of south-east London, reaching out to troubled youngsters like Adebolajo.

He is understood to have tried to recruit at local “mafrishes” – meeting places where members of the area’s Somali community would gather to chew the narcotic qhat leaf.

Both Adebolajo and Emwazi made failed attempts to join extremist groups in Somalia, where Mumin retained strong contacts with radical groups.

In 2010, Mumin also took part in a press conference alongside the ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner Moazzam Begg for the charity CagePrisoners, which was launching a report criticising Western anti-terror tactics in East Africa.

CagePrisoners’s research director, Asim Qureshi, was criticised last year after describing Emwazi as “a beautiful young man” who had been radicalised because of mistreatment by the security services.

In similar fashion, Mumin left Britain for good a few months after his appearance with CagePrisoners, complaining of harrassment by M15….

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  1. African infidel says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 12:21 pm

    The most highly motivated and the most ruthless of muslim jihadists, leaders and warriors are mainly coming from the Western countries these days.

  2. Jerry says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 1:06 pm

    This “hijack” of islam seems to be happening in all the wrong places, like the mosques and enclaves in our neighborhoods. You’d expect this to occur way out in the desert some place and out of reach of those peaceful “moderates.” It’s funny how despite the fact that countless jihadists are always getting exposed it’s never by moderate muslims them selves. When was the last time you saw the headline, “Moderate Muslims Hand Jihadist Over to Police”? Instead it’s either the FBI or MI5 catching these snakes doing the devil’s work right under our noses, soliciting murder for allah and sowing discord. If those on the “outside” looking in can know this, then how in the hell do their own communities not know? Well of course they do. And this is one more reason among a hundred why we should be concerned about muslims and their faith. They seem to be of one mind, islam is superior and not to be mingled with others. And they are perfectly willing to mass murder us to prove it.

    A brief half-a$$ed analogy, I recall many years ago I went into my uncles yard and saw a puddle of wet even though it hadn’t rained. I had just read a book on septic systems and I saw immediately he had the start of a potty problem. I told him but he ignored me and said that’s always been there. Three years later his cute little trailer stunk like the restroom at a stadium during half time. It was so bad we had to sit at the picnic table. I think the analogy is clear. We got ourselves some nasty little puddles all over the west. And believe you me, it’s going to get real stinky, real fast.

    • common sense says

      Apr 29, 2016 at 1:32 pm

      Good points about the inaction of “so called moderate muslims”. People better know by now that if our military, law enforcement and border patrols are prevented from carrying out their duty by failed law makers and their suicidal policies then we the people will rise up and take charge. We will be left (no pun intended) with no choice. At this point it’s pure self defense.
      Trump will win a land slide victory in November, it’s the US people vs the established nit wits not Rep vs Dem this time.
      In fact I see no resemblance of a democratic party anymore and the GOP ideology is rarely asserted.

      • Ex-muslim says

        Apr 29, 2016 at 9:19 pm

        There is no such thing as ‘moderate islam’ or ‘moderate muslim’. These things are the invention of Western liberalist mentality.

    • elizabeth says

      Apr 29, 2016 at 1:39 pm

      “When was the last time you saw the headline, ‘Moderate Muslims Hand Jihadist Over to Police’?”
      Sharia law makes it very clear that Muslims must protect each other, especially when engaged in civilizational war with unbelievers.

      • Jerry says

        Apr 29, 2016 at 2:31 pm

      • Marcel Berube says

        Apr 29, 2016 at 4:20 pm

        Could you tell me the difference between something that it is clear and something that is very clear? I would suppose that when something is clear it doesn’t need to be more clear. It is clear … or not .

        As a matter of fact , always be suspicious with a person that tells you:«This is clear in my head .» Such persons are , most of the time , peoples with about everything not clear in their head . I had a friend who used to say : « This is clear in my mind» every five minutes. Even though he was a teacher, he thought Vienna was a country , not a town, he didn’t knew which comes first Middle Ages or Renaissance and so on.

  3. Rick Spencer says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    Note the orange-dyed beard… to emulate Muhammad’s use of henna to make him look ‘beautiful’. Ugh!

    • Xero_G says

      Apr 29, 2016 at 1:58 pm

      The red beard resembles the stereotypical depiction of Satan – and the fact he’s wearing a head covering – to hide his horns?

    • Champ says

      Apr 29, 2016 at 3:29 pm

      “…to emulate Muhammad’s use of henna to make him look ‘beautiful’. Ugh!”

      “Ugh”, is right ..or my personal fave Eww!!

      Or maybe he heard someone speak the truth about islam and it set his hair on fire. Afterall, the truth about islam *is* too hot for mohammedans to handle.

      Of course muhammad (perdition be upon him) had everything completely backasswards, just as his devout mohammedan followers do, too, and this orange henna look *isn’t* beautiful at all. Nor is islam, it isn’t beautiful either. It’s a death cult / crime syndicate and the unpeaceful religion from hell. Gosh what’s not to like? ..sarc

      • Bob says

        Apr 30, 2016 at 8:51 am

        True Champ – Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a blood-soaked evil satanic cult!

  4. bridgette says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    Thought they came for a better life, cough cough. All those people he preached to are just wringing their hands in anticipation of their next jihad on British soil. Cameron must be so proud.

  5. Judi says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 2:46 pm

    What’s the betting he’s left his 4 wives in the Uk together with their litters of little jihadis where they are being housed and receiving hundreds of pounds worth of benefits every week.

  6. Angemon says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    Mumin’s presence in Somalia is likely alarm British security chiefs, given his alleged record as a recruiter of young Muslim radicals for the cause of violent jihad in Somalia and elsewhere.

    Would British security chiefs prefer him to be in Britain?

    • miriamrove says

      Apr 29, 2016 at 3:48 pm

      looks like someone had diariah and took a s…on his beard. M

  7. Custos Custodum says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    Typo alert: Britain’s domestic security agency is known as mi5 (letters in caps), not m15. Apparently the name (which appeared correctly in the Telegraph) was over-corrected.

    The agency charged with international spying is mi6 (letters in caps).

  8. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 3:37 pm

    This is totally off-topic, but it’s too important to ignore:

    For the first time in the group’s history, a National Rifle Association board member is facing a recall effort — and it’s being laughed off by some of the nation’s top intelligence experts and the NRA.

    The recall targets the well-known Grover Norquist, elected six times to the gun lobby’s board, with claims linking him to Islamic terrorists and constant screams by radio host Glenn Beck that Washington’s top anti-tax advocate is “a very dangerous guy.”

    Norquist told Secrets that the charges are “garbage” and pushed by another well-known Washingtonian, Frank Gaffney, who has promoted the “Save the NRA” recall campaign on Twitter.

    Norquist shrugged off Gaffney, the head of the Center for Security Policy, as a gadfly and “stalker” who has had a longtime feud with the head of Americans for Tax Reform, but NRA rules require the petition to be taken seriously.

    As a result, the NRA held an internal hearing and published its findings in its top publication, “The American Rifleman.”

    The recall petitioner, Stu Weber, said his charges against Norquist, based on old allegations by Gaffney’s group, are disruptive to the NRA’s mission and make Norquist a liability.

    But the NRA hearing judges shot holes through the charges that Norquist is a friend of the Muslim Brotherhood. Board member and former NRA President David Keene mocked the charges as part of a wild-eyed conspiracy. Other board members say they are confused by the fight and want it to go away.

    I’m not an NRA board member, but I’m not confused about the Mo-Bro-Hood and Norquist’s connection to it, any more than I’m confused about Huma Abedin.

  9. Marcel Berube says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    Mohamed was a clever man . He notice jews and christians of his time had some habits. So he ask his adepts to do the contrary so anyone could see the difference while walking on the streets. Jews had grey hairs. So muslims would color their . Jews have mustach but no beards . Muslims grew beards and shave mustach . Etc… So , when it was time , no muslim would kill another muslim , by error. That’s why the man up above have a red beard.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Apr 29, 2016 at 4:20 pm

      A few years ago I was chatting with a Hindu from Delhi with whom I was working on a project. He recalled going into a public restroom in the train station with his dad when he was a little boy, and he saw these men washing their hands with a weird revolving motion instead of rubbing them together like all the other men in the room.

      He said he asked his dad, “Why were those people in the funny little white hats washing their hands that way, Papa?” His dad answered, “It’s dangerous to ask such questions, son. Remember to keep your mouth shut around those people.”

  10. Jack Holan says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    Robert
    YOU, the messenger, they Barr from entering the country. They ban yours speech as if you had anArmy of Crazies behind you. The Sheik Imam spewing hate organizing sedition treason He’s a good O’le Boy MsMay probably got involved and stopped. Can these bureaucrats take accountability for the grotesque murder of this soldier just about in front of his barracks. In Israel they would not have to find someone for permission. They would have shot them dead. Anyways you are dangerous and must be kept out and the looms have free rein at the Mosque
    Just for kicks you might write MI5 point out you helped our security services pre Obama politics. When they eventually decide and they will that they need your help you are available

  11. OP says

    Apr 29, 2016 at 8:14 pm

    Orange beard, don’t care.

  12. mortimer says

    Apr 30, 2016 at 4:35 am

    Sheiky Abdulqadir Mumin… what’s up with him, you say?

    Answer for our naïve, unread Western elites: IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID.

  13. Cheesecake says

    Apr 30, 2016 at 8:37 am

    I hope people can tell the difference between a British passport holder and a native briton. These islamic extremists are not native Europeans but passport holders who arrived in Europe over the last 50 years.
    Native Europeans tend not to convert to Islam all the Muslim violence in Europe has been caused by non native European immigrants.

  14. ScottM says

    Apr 30, 2016 at 9:31 am

    WOW! Who let that orangutan out!? What a dangerous freak.

  15. DockyWocky says

    Apr 30, 2016 at 10:22 am

    I would say it is probably long passed the time when Western governments establish loads of bogus recruitment centers for islamic youths where, when they show up in answer to slick jihadi ads placed around the country, they are transported, not to Syria, or the other islamic paradises, but to a secret location where they are professionally disassembled, cooked, and canned for distribution to places where folks are starving.

    Otherwise, it is a shame to waste valuable protein.

  16. duh_swami says

    Apr 30, 2016 at 10:29 am

    It’s henna…It’s sunna to look like that…

  17. guest says

    Apr 30, 2016 at 1:48 pm

    I am in Antalya, Turkey. Angemon knows who I am. GI, mirren and champ. Wellington, as well.

    I am fine. Philippines coming along fine. Still in the belly of the beast after Iraq and Libya, but still alive and kicking.

    Islam still sucks. Muslims still suck. But Perge and the beautiful sea are still beautiful.

    Love to all.

    • Angemon says

      May 7, 2016 at 5:59 pm

      Do keep in touch, guest. And let us know once your book is out 🙂

  18. Louise from Canada says

    Apr 30, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    When I saw this picture of Sheiky Abdulqadir Mumin, it reminded me of the film “The Planet of the Apes.”The monkey who was in charge of the “court” also had this color in his beard. ” HA! HA! HA! A real monkey!

  19. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 1, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    At least h e’s now in Somalia rather than in the UK.

    With any luck he will either 1/ catch something bad and die or 2/ get shot by the Kenyans who don’t like being raided across-the-border by Mohammedans or 3/ get shot by the Ethiopians, ditto or 4/ get killed by some of his ever-loving’ muslim bros, for not being Islamic enough (because no matter how fervently Islamic someone is, there is *always* someone more-Islamic-than-thou, with an itch to kill someone for allah).

    British jihadwatchers need to write to Cameron, to the Immigration and Defence Ministers, and to their MPs, *demanding* that this creature’s British citizenship (or residency status, or whatever it is) be annulled, or else that he be declared Exile and Outlaw.

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