SUPERMARKET JIHADI INCURS ISIS WRATH AFTER URGING WOULD-BE FIGHTERS TO GO TO LIBYA INSTEAD.

 

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Omar Hussain has been threatened by IS with ‘serious repercussions’ after urging would-be fighters to go to Libya instead

A British jihadi in Syria has been threatened by IS with ‘serious repercussions’ after urging would-be fighters to go to Libya instead.

Omar Hussain – nicknamed the Supermarket Jihadi because he was once a security guard at Morrisons in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire – said getting into Syria was now virtually impossible after the Turkish military tightened the border.

But Hussain, 27, was slapped down by IS’s official media wing for sending out unauthorised messages on an encrypted app called Telegram, which has become the social media platform of choice for extremists. 

The threat of swift retribution appeared in English on Hussain’s Telegram channel last week, and was written by Abu Abdullah from the so-called Islamic State Media Centre.

It read: ‘You have been previously informed and prohibited from publishing your material, and on any platform. You must immediately close down the above mentioned pages. Further violations will come with serious repercussions and will be dealt with swiftly.’

The warning came shortly after Hussain sent a message to followers which read: ‘Come to Libya, come to Nigeria, and be part of those who build the Khilafah [Islamic caliphate] with your skulls, bones and blood.’

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Hussain, 27, was slapped down by IS’s official media wing for sending out unauthorised messages

Despite the warning, Hussain was soon back on Telegram, now calling himself Repunzel, and encouraging an undercover Mail on Sunday reporter to go to Libya.

Asked why his previous channel had been shut down, he said: ‘Internal politics.’

He added: ‘I am forced to say dawlah [IS] is perfect without errors. We invite all ikhwa [brothers] here 2 perfection where there is no dhulm [injustice]. 

Akhi [my brother] get the hint.’