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Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: November 16, 2014
URL: http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/indianorigin-muslim-convert-flees-uk-for-is-territory-in-syria/article6603391.ece
An Indian-origin convert to Islam has skipped bail to flee Britain and is believed to be now living under the Islamic State in Syria.
Abu Rumaysah, born Siddhartha Dhar, was arrested by Scotland Yard as a terror suspect in September and was released on bail. But according to BBC London, he left London on a bus bound for mainland Europe and is now living under the Islamic State.
Rumaysah, 31, was arrested on suspicion of encouraging terrorism on September 25 as part of an investigation into the banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun.
He has close links to radical preacher Anjem Choudhary, who was head of al-Muhajiroun.
Rumaysah, a father of four, has publicly expressed his views on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live programme, before he was arrested. He said: “Now that we have this Caliphate [Islamic state] I think you’ll see many Muslims globally seeing it as an opportunity for the Koran to be realised.”
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