Message for Jihadi Don (Photo : Facebook)
Another Islamic State (IS) fighter was killed by a Royal Air Force drone attack in earlier part of September. He was 26-year-old Ruhul Rakib Amin, more known among IS fighters as Jihadi Don.
While he waged his life for his Islamic faith, a former classmate in Britain told Daily Record that Amin was actually a terrible Muslim during their teen years. Stephen Marvin shared with Daily Record a photo of their pre-teen years taken at Stephen's Aberdeen home when Rakib acted like a typical kid.
According to Stephen, they used to hang out at his house and then play football at the grounds of King's College. "Rakib was no different from the rest of us. We were just normal kids who liked to play and get up to mischief," he recalls.
Rakib, whose family were migrants from Bangladesh, studied at Sunnybank Primary. They became classmates at St. Machar Academy where they beg adults to buy them alcopops. And when they became older, they hang outside the Bobbin pub to ask people to buy them Blue WKD, which Stephen says, are indicators of Rakib being a terrible Muslim then.
Lacking interest in academic and showing more in socializing, Stephen shares that Rakib ended with a bad crowd when he was 14, resulting in him being exiled to Bangladesh for two years who took his Islamic faith a bit more seriously while in his land of birth.
Rakib moved to Leicester and shocked his friends when he appeared in 2014 in an IS recruitment video posted on YouTube, similar to the one below. The jihadist who boarded a plane for Syria was no longer the person he knew Rakib to be, says Stephen.
In the video, Rakib was seen holding an AK47 and was quoted as asking recruits, "Are you willing to sacrifice the fat job you've got, the big car you've got, the family you have?" He assured the future jihadists that "if you sacrifice something for Allah, Allah will give you 700 times more than this."
Stephen says he initially felt sad for his childhood friend, but "when it all sank in, I lost sympathy for him."
Similarly, Rakib's parents cut off all contact with their son when he joined the IS "because of the shame be brought the family which returned to Bangladesh, reports Daily Mail. However, their daughter, Tamanna, is a cryptic message on Facebook, showed her support for her dead brother with the message "Take the path of truth and do not be frightened by the small number of followers."
