Khadijah Dare took to Twitter to celebrate the brutal beheading of American journalist James Foley
A female jihadist from London has vowed to become the first female to behead a western prisoner in Syria.
Khadijah Dare, who is originally from Lewisham in south east London, took to Twitter to celebrate the brutal murder of American journalist James Foley.
The 22-year-old mother of one, who moved to Syria in 2012 with her Swedish husband and Isil fighter, Abu Bakr, expressed her desire to carry out a similar execution.
Writing under the Twitter name Muhajirah fi Sham, which means ‘immigrant in Syria’, she posted a slang filled message that said: “Any links 4 da execution of da journalist plz. Allahu Akbar. UK must b shaking up ha ha. I wna b da 1st UK woman 2 kill a UK or US terorrist!(sic)”.
She recently sparked outrage when she posted a picture of her toddler son posing with an AK47 rifle.
Dare, who has urged other young women from London to join her in Syria, is thought to have converted to Islam in her mid-teens.
Earlier this year she wrote: “All da people back in Dar ul kufr [land of disbelievers] what are you waiting for … hurry up and join da caravan to where the laws of Allah is implemented.
Khadijah Dare with her Swedish Isil fighter husband, Abu Bakr
“No one from Lewisham has come here apart from an 18-year-old sister shame on all those people who afford fancy meals and clothes and do not make hirja [the word for Mohammad’s journey]. Shame on you.”
She is understood to have been a regular at the Lewisham Islamic Centre, which was linked to the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby. Dare later married a Turkish militant who she met in Sweden.
She has also used her Twitter account to delight in the execution of a Syrian man who had been accused of rape.
She wrote: “On da way 2 da market in Manbij [a town near Aleppo], me and sum sisters was wonderin wat da commotion was all about … On da way back frm da market, we see da body of a young man, with blood coin his nose … tied onto a tree.”
More British Muslims fight in Syria than in UK Armed Forces
Nasser Muthana, 20, from Cardiff, Wales, speaks in an online video titled “There is no life without Jihad”
More than twice as many British Muslims have travelled to Syria to fight for extremists including the Islamic State than are serving in the British Armed Forces, an MP has claimed.
Khalid Mahmood estimated that at least 1,500 young British Muslims have gone to wage jihad since 2011.
The MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham told Newsweek that British Government estimates 400 to 500 young Britons in total had gone to fight were “nonsense”.
A figure of 500 a year was “conservative” he said.
Recent figures released by the Ministry of Defence show 650 soldiers, sailors and airmen give their faith as Muslim.
Mr Mahmoud said: “If you look across the whole of the country, and the various communities involved, 500 going over each year would be a conservative estimate.”
The prevalence of British fighters among Islamic State forces has been highlighted again after the militants released a video showing a masked man with a British accent apparently beheading James Foley, a captured American journalist.
Ghaffar Hussain, managing director of the Quilliam Foundation an anti-extremism think tank, said: “It shows that they have plenty of Western recruits that are willing to partake in brutal violence that were, most likely, radicalised in the West before going over to Syria.
“The video shows Islamic State messaging is slick and sophisticated but that should not surprise us given they are the richest terrorist group in history and have over 2000 European recruits.”
Gerard Russell, a former British diplomat in Iraq, said many of the British recruits had originally travelled over with humanitarian ideals, but become brutalised by the conflict.
He said: “They go out to try to protect civilians in Syria and they get into an underworld of violence and very, very brutal characters and they end up being conscripted by one or another.”
Others were impressionable young men escaping poverty and dead end jobs in the UK.
He said: “You are in a dead end job and say, I could be a hero, or I could be a super villain.”