ISIS British-born rapper was under psychological pressure
after father’s arrest: source
Abdel-Bary is the son of suspected terrorist extradited to
US
Written by : Mohammed Al-Shafey
on : Saturday, 16 Aug, 2014
Image of Abdel-Majid Abdel-Bary taken from a rap video.
(YouTube)
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A London-born rapper who
joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and who tweeted a
controversial image of himself holding the decapitated head of a Syrian
soldier, had been under “psychological pressure” after his father’s arrest.
Abdel-Majid Abdel-Bary, 23, posted his picture on the social
networking site along with the caption: “Chillin’ with my homie or what’s left
of him.”
He left his parents’ home in Maida Vale in London last year
to travel to Syria to join ISIS, a terror group that has declared the
establishment of an Islamic caliphate over vast swathes of land it controls
between Syria and Iraq.
The former rapper is the son of Adel Abdul-Bary, an Egyptian
refugee who was extradited from London to the US in 2012 on terrorism charges.
Asharq Al-Awsat spoke to the Egyptian Islamist Dr.
Hani Al-Sibai, Director of the Al Maqrizi Center in London, who said Abdul-Bary
and his five brothers had come under enormous psychological pressure following
the arrest of their father in 1999 and his long detention in Britain’s Belmarsh
Prison.
Sibai said: “Young British Muslims are now afraid of
mosques, and are cautious of Imams who ask them about what is going on in
Muslim countries because they believe mosques are under surveillance from
British security.”
The turmoil in Syria and Iraq has raised fears of more young
British Muslims being involved in terror-related activities. The British
government believes more than 300 of its citizens have returned from Syria,
while 500 are still there fighting.
Earlier this week a shocking image of a seven-year-old boy
holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier was posted on Twitter. The boy is
believed to be the son of an Australian ex-terror convict who brought his sons
with him to fight with radical groups in Syria.
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