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UK: Muslim NHS doctor leaves family to join the Islamic State

May 24, 2016 4:15 pm By Robert Spencer

“In pictures on his Facebook page, he is seen in combat fatigues, carrying an automatic rifle and reading the Koran.” Not that this has anything to do with…

Issam Abuanza

“NHS doctor leaves family in Sheffield to ‘join Islamic State in Syria,'” by Danny Boyle, Telegraph, May 24, 2016:

An NHS doctor who spent seven years working in Britain left his wife and two children in Sheffield to join Isil fighters, it has emerged.

Issam Abuanza – who is pictured on Facebook wearing medical scrubs and carrying a gun in a holster – moved to Syria with the militant group, leaked recruitment papers have disclosed.

The 37-year-old, who is believed to be the first practising NHS doctor known to have joined Isil fighters, is said to have gained a licence to practise medicine in Britain in 2009.

Dr Abuanza reportedly combined shifts as a registrar with running an online clothing company selling kaftan dresses.
“I’ve no idea how he became like this or who showed him the path to terror”Najla Abuanza

But Dr Abuanza – a Palestinian doctor with British citizenship – left Britain to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) fighters in 2014, documents obtained by the BBC showed.

His sister Najla said that his parents will “never forgive him”.

Dr Abuanza is believed to have crossed into Syria on July 26 2014, soon after the creation of Isil’s self-proclaimed caliphate.

In his registration document, he is said to have described himself as a doctor specialising in endocrinology – the treatment of hormonal imbalances.

Dr Abuanza is understood to have qualified as a doctor in Baghdad in 2003 before later moving to Britain and working in the NHS from 2007.

In pictures on his Facebook page, he is seen in combat fatigues, carrying an automatic rifle and reading the Koran.

Dr Abuanza’s wife told the BBC that his family knew nothing of his plans.

“He used to be quite the dashing young man, very modern,” Dr Abuanza’s sister, Najla Abuanza, told the BBC. “I’ve no idea how he became like this or who showed him the path to terror.”…

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  1. Mirren10 says

    May 24, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    I sincerely hope this pos is killed over there. If he isn’t, what does anyone want to bet me, that if he comes back to the UK, he will be allowed to work in the NHS again ?

    • Charli Main says

      May 25, 2016 at 6:35 am

      and of course, he has no need to worry about his family. The BRITISH taxpayer will continue to house, feed, clothe and educate this Muslim piece of shits family.

      • Shane says

        May 25, 2016 at 11:35 am

        Yes, the West’s social welfare states are providing for tens of millions of Muslims who have no loyalty to their Western country and are breeding jihadis at a fast rate. Islamists love the liberal West’s insane and suicidal immigration policies.

  2. Lizzy says

    May 24, 2016 at 4:43 pm

    ‘Dr Abuanza’s wife told the BBC that his family knew nothing of his plans.

    “He used to be quite the dashing young man, very modern,” Dr Abuanza’s sister, Najla Abuanza, told the BBC. “I’ve no idea how he became like this or who showed him the path to terror.”…’

    Sadly these expressions of taqiyya are often proved to be otherwise in such cases.

    • Mockingjay says

      May 24, 2016 at 7:27 pm

      “…who showed him the path to terror …” ?
      Well –
      that would probably have been
      MOHAMMAD
      -no?

      • DP111 says

        May 25, 2016 at 7:53 am

        According to the governemnt experts, radicalisation only takes place ONLINE.

        Is Mohammed the paedophile ONLINE?

    • Polk1970 says

      May 24, 2016 at 8:37 pm

      Are the British taxpayers now supporting the family he abandoned?

      • Lizzy says

        May 25, 2016 at 2:15 am

        Indeed and many more of the same ilk.

  3. Angemon says

    May 24, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    An NHS doctor who spent seven years working in Britain left his wife and two children in Sheffield to join Isil fighters, it has emerged.

    B-b-b-but, poverty and disenfranchisement!

    Dr Abuanza’s wife told the BBC that his family knew nothing of his plans.

    Of course she said that. And of course she wasn’t pressed about it.

    “He used to be quite the dashing young man, very modern,” Dr Abuanza’s sister, Najla Abuanza, told the BBC. “I’ve no idea how he became like this or who showed him the path to terror.”…

    Right, it’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…

  4. Dom107 says

    May 24, 2016 at 4:45 pm

    Good riddance to him.I hope the authorities dont let him back in again.!!
    Just shows an education doesn’t make you immune to perverse religious delusion !

    • Babs says

      May 25, 2016 at 7:33 am

      A vain hope, I’m afraid, given the jelly-spined lot in power. All he’d need to do is bleat about his entitlement to a family life and he’d slime back in.
      BREXIT is the only answer to this.

  5. Mirren10 says

    May 24, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    BBC News reported this vile creature posted this on his facebook page:

    ”Up until October 2015, when he stopped posting, Abuanza was very active on social media, frequently writing messages in support of ISIS and attempting to recruit other British medics.

    In January 2015, he wrote a Facebook post celebrating the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in Paris, in which 12 members of staff from the satirical magazine were murdered.

    ‘Praise be to God for this terrorist act,’ he wrote. ‘God kill off their enemies, military and civilian, men and women, adult and children.’

    In February 2015, he wrote another post about the death of the captured Jordanian pilot who was murdered by ISIS fighters.

    In the chilling post, he said that he would have wanted to heal the victim so they could kill him all over again.

    ‘I would’ve liked for them to burn him extremely slowly and I could treat him so we could torch him once more,’ he wrote.”

    I am horrified when I think how many innocent patients this vile monster treated. Never, never, never, will I allow a mohammedan doctor, nurse, or dentist to come anywhere *near* me.

  6. mustapha crap says

    May 24, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    Satan/Allah/Muhammad may well sleep in your nose but he holidays in Uranus and looks like 5h1t in the morning

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    May 24, 2016 at 5:12 pm

    What folly of this doctor to desert his family for ,of all things, the Islamic “state.” His actions are that of a sincere but a terrible deluded man. Likewise in his Islamic and delusional way of thinking he might actually have “good intentions.” This shows that the old saying is true .Which is the “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

  8. R Cole says

    May 24, 2016 at 5:17 pm

    Interesting – how the families of those who have traveled to join Islamic State seem to know nothing at all.

    His wife doesn’t even know and his parents can’t ‘forgive him’!!

    It is like those caught with jihad training centers in their houses – and the wives and women folk claim they had no idea what was going on – in that other room!!

    ::

    Climate Change

    The reasoning is that these people leave to join Islamic State because they are doing nothing with their lives. And things like ‘Islamophobia’ and the ‘lack of integration’ have blocked their path to achieving better prospects [read: it’s our fault!].

    Yet like numerous others who are medical doctors or scientists – are still leaving.

    One thing for sure – with Islam – the climate has certainly changed!

  9. common sense says

    May 24, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    Dipshot gave up the good life for Satan incarnate. Another case of an educated man joining up with the delusional and apparently addictive killing regime of Islam. They just can’t stop themselves now can they.
    I will! Just give me the chance. He dies the same way any of the *poor* un educated ISIS members do. I won’t discriminate I promise. Fvckin pencil necked dickweed what a turd!

  10. Paul says

    May 24, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    “UK: Muslim NHS doctor leaves family to join the Islamic State”
    I’m guessing he wasn’t poor or struggling to make ends meet then.
    But…but…it has everything to do with poverty and disenfranchisement!
    Yes, of course, nothing at all to do with waging jihad, killing the ‘infidels’
    and dying during battle for the pagan rock idol ‘allah’ – the only supposed
    route to salvation. Not at all, no uncomfortable truths to recognise here folks,
    move on!

  11. jayell says

    May 24, 2016 at 5:41 pm

    So no one suspected this exemplary pillar of the establishment – until he was found out. His family apparently disown him – now that it’s all gone public. His parents will ‘never forgive him’ – or so they tell the media. And, of course, we all believe them, don’t we? This character is just the latest in a long line of impostor ‘British Citizens’ (sic) who have disgraced their profession and the UK. But of course THEY won’t see it that way because it would never occur to their nasty little bloated, bigotted islamic egos.

    • Babs says

      May 25, 2016 at 7:35 am

      I funded his training, rot the bar steward!

  12. Mockingjay says

    May 24, 2016 at 7:32 pm

    A medical doctor that now dedicates his life to killing people.
    It’s all possible in islam.

  13. Baucent says

    May 24, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    What was it Kerry said? It was all about jobs. Need to create more jobs so the “path to terror” is less attractive. What the hell is going on John, the guy has a good job.

  14. George Poll says

    May 24, 2016 at 8:50 pm

    Maybe he prefers to have sex with s goat, rather than his wife.

  15. More Ham Ed says

    May 24, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    “Issam Abuanza – who is pictured on Facebook wearing…”
    Another unholy ko ‘ran reader.

  16. linnte says

    May 24, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    “Good morning honey. Oh, by the way, today I am sneeking out of the house and am going to join some friends for a while. Promise not to tell anyone OK?”
    “Is that ALL you are taking? A small back pack and a pair of boots?”
    “Yes, bit it’s OK honey. I won’t be gone long and me and the guys are roughing it so don’t worry!”
    “OK dear, but what do I tell the kids?”
    “Tell them that I love them and to read their Qur’an every day”.
    “And what do I tell your boss”?
    “Tell him nothing”.

    Yeah right…it was a surprise to all his family.

  17. Jay Boo says

    May 25, 2016 at 1:29 am

    Another shameless MO Perv wagging his Pre-pubescent virginity check finger.

  18. p r sharma says

    May 25, 2016 at 2:58 am

    a well qualified doctor after practicing in UK for 7 years is impressed with the theology of Islamic jihad to kill or help others to kill so as contribute to establish caliphate in Syria and Levant knowing well that they are hell bent to ensure that non believers of Islam are wazib ul katl (justified to be killed ). Yazidi women have been enslaved , raped and sold by them in the open market in the places under their control.And this is well believed to be permitted under Islam/ Qura’n. this certainly indicates that there is seriously wrong in the Islamic teachings but majority of the Muslims do not agree to it or do not dare to touch upon it , forget the opposing the same. If majority keeps mum except some condemnation of the terrorist action nothing is going to be changed . There shall increase the phobia from Islam across the globe unless its teachings are modified with the changing world.

  19. Trader33 says

    May 25, 2016 at 3:05 am

    Actually what this reveals is that the claims of B Hussein Obama, D Cameron and the bitch Merkel that ISIS is an aberration of islam by ignorant gullible people is totally wrong. A qualified doctor ( albeit Iraqi qualification) means he is educated and thus decided to join ISIS because the Koran says he should follow and join Jihad. Thus the western political elitist who dismiss islam as being an aggressive religion are proved totally wrong. I too hope he gets a reaper missile up his as he performs surgery on these evil fighters.

  20. DP111 says

    May 25, 2016 at 7:50 am

    ‘Religious War’: Muslim Migrants ‘Ambush’ Yazidis With Knives And Baseball Bats

    A separate study published by German newspaper Die Welt in February found that violence toward ethnic minorities, religious minorities and women had increased across German migrant centres.

    Muslim men were singled out for tearing up Bibles and assaulting Christians, sexually abusing women and children and beating up homosexuals.

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/23/religious-war-muslim-migrants-ambush-yazidis/

    We already have a religious war in progress. Merkel has allowed the enemy to bolster its forces by over a million.

    If it really becomes hot war in the next few years, the EU will capitulate. The only force that is capable of rescuing us from the mess that the EU has created is America. Only America has the power to make Erdogan, Pakistan and the rest of the Muslim world to back down.

  21. mortimer says

    May 25, 2016 at 8:06 am

    It’s the ideology, stupid.

  22. CrossWare says

    May 25, 2016 at 8:08 am

    How Trump phrased it: “Will go after their families”.
    Once that done remove him from the gene pool.

  23. mortimer says

    May 25, 2016 at 8:09 am

    Jihadists are mainly well-educated. Jihadists are mainly from stable homes. Jihadists are mainly articulate and competent and resourceful. Few jihadists are underprivileged. Jihadists are not motivated by ‘grievances’. Jihadists are mainly motivated for a desire to create a supremacist Islamic utopia.

    What is it that a supremacist wants?

  24. Florida Jim says

    May 25, 2016 at 9:37 am

    A good doctor might join Doctors Without Borders to help others without pay that would be a good thin. To join a Jihad to murder innocents and behead them , if possible, will get you into Hell and not soon enough.Study Jesus Christ and try to follow his plan of Loving the God and the neighbor and do good to all. Doesn’t that sound more attractive a life than murdering innocents and lying to everyone daily?

  25. G P says

    May 25, 2016 at 9:41 am

    No surprises there, just don’t let him back in, that is if he hasn’t been killed already.

  26. firefox says

    May 25, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    This man like all others who leave to go fight for ISIS should immediately have their passports revoked and their families deported. Their acts are treasonous and their families are accomplices.
    The governments that allow the upkeep and free movement of these treasonous bastards should as well be considered accomplices and conspirators and jailed or deported.
    This man just decalred his position in war against the nation he lives in.
    The failure to recognize and deal with this insanity is liberal insanity in action.

  27. DP111 says

    May 25, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    Muslims with machetes waging knife jihad is everywhere — UCMED in California, Munich railway station, an Ohio eatery, a grocery store parking lot in London. You might think the media would report on it — you’d be wrong.

    The description of these savage stabbings are gruesome. These pious barbarians are inhuman.

    “Leytonstone tube stabbing: Taxi drivers admits trying to stab commuters,” By Rebecca Perring, The Express, May 25, 2016

    A SOMALIAN taxi driver has admitted trying to stab four people during a frenzied attack in front of horrified commuters at Leytonstone Tube station.

    But Muhaydin Mire, 30, denied beating a 56-year-old man unconscious and hacking at his neck during the same attack at the east London station on December 5 last year. Appearing at London’s Old Bailey via videolink from prison, the former Uber taxi driver denied one count of attempted murder but admitted four counts of attempted wounding during a frenzied five minute attack.

    http://pamelageller.com/2016/05/uk-subway-stabbing-muslim-taxi-driver-admits-trying-to-stab-commuters.html/

    Oh, I’m spreading hate.

  28. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 27, 2016 at 1:03 am

    The NHS and the UK are well rid of him. With any luck a Hezbollah bullet, a Russian bullet or bomb, a Yankee drone or a Kurd sniper – or even one of his fellow Sunni Muslims more-islamic-than-thou – will remove him from the world and that will be the end of that.

  29. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 27, 2016 at 1:09 am

    I wonder whether it would be possible for the NHS to find this creature’s paper or electronic case files and find out which people passed through his hands when he was practising in the UK in, say, the past five to ten years… and what happened to them.

    Because the opportunities that a *doctor* has to cause entirely unnecessary pain, suffering and death, are *endless*. In what numberless small, mean ways might he have expressed his hatred and contempt toward the Filthy Kuffar? And what of all the *other* Muslims embedded in the health professions across the western world? What might *they* be getting up to, smiling falsely at their hapless Infidel patients, whilst harbouring hatred in their hearts? A little studied carelessness with the infection control procedures? A deliberate delay in referring someone for further investigation, thus increasing the chance of an incipient cancer spreading beyond the point where it can be stopped? It has to be thought about, because these people are filled with enough hatred, and enough sense of entitlement, and enough sheer viciousness, to be perfectly capable of doing it. Brigitte Gabriel and Wafa Sultan both saw that hate that seethes in the souls of way too many Muslims, and they saw the actions – small and great – that it prompts.

    • linnte says

      May 27, 2016 at 1:18 am

      Oh Dumbledore, oh my! There is a doc I had the honor to work with named Hassan Ghandour. He was from Lebanon. I had never met a more compassionate MD in all my working years as a nurse. There were never ever any Muslim patients in our hospital. But Doc G went out of his way to give excellent and spot on care. He still practices in my area. I think about him often and struggle with – how could he know what the Qur’an says and stay a Muslim? I am hoping he is apostate by now. Praying for him. Thanks for the reminder.

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