4 Year-Old Boy In Recent ISIS Video Is My Grandson- Nigerian, Henry Dare
Cries Out
Nigerian-born United Kingdom immigrant, Henry (also Sunday) Dare
has identified the four year old boy in the latest ISIS video as Isa, his
grandson.
In the video, which showed a
group of ISIS militants executing five supposed British spies, Isa was heard
calling in Allah’s name, for the execution of the individuals.
He was wearing military
fatigues and warned in English: “We are going to go kill the kafir
(non-believers) over there.”
Henry is the father of Grace
“Khadijah” Dare, a Christian who converted to Islam in 2012. She had taken her
son Isa on moving to Syria to marry Swedish militant Abu Bakr, who was later
killed.
Dare while speaking to a UK
based media organization on the development, said: “He’s my grandson. I can’t
disown him. I know him very well.
Dare is a Christian Nigerian
who migrated to the UK with his daughter, Grace “Khadijah” Dare.
Khadijah was radicalized
while at university in London and joined the Islamic State in 2012. She had
reportedly praised the beheading of an American journalist, James Foley, and
said she wanted to be the first woman to behead a hostage.
Khadijah Dare, who was christened Grace by her parents, grew up in
Lewisham to Nigerian Christian parents, but converted to Islam as a teenager
before leaving for Syria.
In 2014, she posted a
photograph on her personal Twitter account of her then four-year-old son Isa,
meaning Jesus in Arabic, smiling with an AK-47 rifle.
All her social media
account, or those linked to her, are known for posting pro-ISIS messages,
encouraging other young women to make the journey to the war zone and she is
one of the first known western women to have travelled to Syria.
Dare said he recently spoke
to his daughter ‘weeks ago, when she called me’. “I keep on ignoring her calls
because she has brought shame to our family and to herself,” he said.
The boy was born in 2010 and
has been named by some news outlets. The British press has also nicknamed him
‘Jihadi Junior’.
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