Young ISIS individuals homicide 71-yr ancient Muslim chief

Two ISIS supporters “prompted via hatred” used a hammer to bash a Muslim chief to demise in a park as they believed he used to be a black magician, a court docket has heard.

Victim Jalal Uddin used to be allegedly murdered through ISIS supporters Mohammed Hussain Syeedy, 22, and Mohammed Abdul Kadir, 24, with the court listening to the two guys had stalked their victim earlier than cornering him within the park external of Manchester.

The guys followed the 71-yr-old on his approach to the vehicle as he left his neighborhood mosque within the Wardleworth field of city after evening prayers. His face and skull have been bashed within the attack.


Syeedy, who is on trial at the Manchester Crown courtroom, has denied the murder. His alleged partner Kadir has reportedly fled overseas.

Prosecutor Paul Greaney QC told the court that Mr Uddin was a practitioner of a form of Islamic medication known as Ruqya, which concerned the usage of charms.

He mentioned: “ISIS regards this practice as black magic and adheres to the view that folks who engage in it deserve extreme punishment, even death.

“Who hated a decent man like Jalal Uddin with such virulence?”

He persisted: “The reply to that primary question is to be observed in the twisted ideology of ISIS usually often called the Islamic State.”

The court docket heard that the elderly sufferer had been determined in a Rochdale park, close a child’s playground, with severe fractures to his cranium.

A post-mortem later showed the 71-yr-old man had suffered more than one accidents to his head and face with the bones of his face badly fractured.

The attack was once so violent that prosecutors mentioned Jalal Uddin’s brain itself had been damaged together with his bashed body observed with the aid of two younger women on the South road park simply before 9pm on February 18, 2016, as they entered the park.

Some of the ladies’ older brothers desperately tried to maintain the Imam alive while the kids waited for emergency services to arrive. Uddin used to be taken to health center but died a short time later.

The courtroom heard he died: “with out ever regaining cognizance and with out ever being competent to claim who had attacked him, or why.”

The courtroom further heard that the accused pair had begun stalking their victim after discovering he was a practitioner of Ruqya in 2015. Mr Greaney told the court that the “activities reached a climax” on the February night time.

He said: “As Jalal Uddin entered the park on the ultimate leg of his experience residence, Kadir left the defendant’s automobile and ran in after this man in his seventies, attacking him with a weapon, frequently as i've stated, a hammer striking blows to his head and face.”

He mentioned it was possible that Syeedy would argue that he did not comprehend Kadir would homicide the Imam and thus declare he used to be now not worried within the homicide. He said the crime had been committed as a result of “hatred and intolerance”.

Mr Greaney additional argued that any suggestions that the death was a “robbery long past fallacious” had been fallacious.

He said: “On the contrary they have been without doubt the effect of an attack that was once deliberate, inspired by using hatred and through a want to humiliate Jalal Uddin and definitely intended to kill or on the very least purpose relatively severe harm.”

Locals had been able to identify Mr Uddin with many of them knowing him as “Qari Saab”, which is a term of recognize.