British female jihadi wants ‘Cameron’s head on a spike’
Channel 4 News finds a British teenager in Syria making threats against David Cameron, praying for his head to “be put on a spike” for “waging war” on IS.
The young woman wrote online that “In sha Allaha [god willing] day will come when David Camerons head will be on a spike as he continues to wage war on the awilya of Allah … and strike terror in the hearts of the kuffar”.
The tweets, identified by Channel 4 News, come as concern grows over the number of young women who have joined jihad in Syria, and their violent rhetoric about attacks against the UK.
The teenager, Umm Khattab, also said on Twitter that Mr Cameron’s plan to block passports was “laughable”, saying “like we care lol”.
Umm Khattab’s photo shows her wearing a niqab. She is thought to be living in the Islamc State stronghold of Raqaa, and to be aged 18.
The woman, whose identity has yet to be revealed, set up her Twitter account the day after two Manchester schoolgirl twins Salma and Zahra Halane fled to Syria.
Khattab has also posted on Twitter calls for the flag of Islamic State to be raised over Downing Street.
British female religious police
Umm Khattab’s tweet was posted the same day that it was revealed that British female jihadis aligned with Islamic State are helping to run an ultra-religious police force in Raqqa that punishes un-Islamic behaviour in Islamic State territory, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
Researchers at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), based at King’s College London, claim that at least four British women are part of the force.
One key woman in this ‘al Khanssaa brigade’ is said to be Aqsa Mahmood, a 20-year old woman from Glasgow, who in November fled to Syria without her parents’ knowledge.
ICSR reports that about 60 women have gone to Syria from the UK, with ICSR monitoring 25 of them.
It says that most of the women are between the ages of 18-24, and that many more young women have been making inquiries about jihad in the weeks since the beheading of James Foley.
“There’s been specific calls for doctors, engineers, lawyers to come to the ‘Caliphate’, and for a state to function, women need to come, they need to have children”, Shiraz Maher, ICSR, told the Huffington Post.
“Sunni jihadis have never called on women to fight, they come to be the home-front, to cook, clean and offer logistical support. They are almost all married to Isis fighters.”