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Abdullah Bai was one of hundreds of Muslims who give up their homes in the West Midlands each year to fight for militant groups in Kashmir, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
Just another man on the streets of Birmingham. Bai has been elevated to the heights of martyrdom for joining the Jihad, or holy wars, and killing ten Indians in a suicide bombing.
Dubbed by some of Islam’s most important militant figures as “The Holy Warrior”. Bai was spurred on by the belief that it was the duty of all young Muslims to take part in Kashmir’s fight for freedom.
After being educated in Birmingham, Bai left his home to move to Pakistan in 1994 after claming he was spoken to by the Prophet Mohammed in a dream.
Like so many young British-based Muslims, Bai was then recruited by several extremist religious groups who target the West Midlands, and Birmingham in particular, for loyal supporters.
Recruiting organisations, may of which can be found within minutes on hundreds of internet sites, then take volunteers to Pakistan for guerrilla-type training in all aspects of war.
One such web site operated by Sakina Security Services, an international organisation fund by wealth Muslims, advertises basic training courses which include close-quarter battle techniques, stalking and terrorism, the Islamic art of war and improvised explosive devices.
Once in Pakistan, Bai fell under the political wing of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (The Army of Mohammed) and its founder, Moulana Azhar Masood.
Freed from prison in a deal to release 155 passenger aboard an Indian Airways jet, Moulana Azhar, a cleric orator and fund-raiser, has hundreds of thousands of followers across Pakistan and has very close links to Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban.
On his release from prison in 1992, Moulana Azhar told his followers: “We are proud people. We know how to live with honour and die with honour. We also know how to take honour away.”
The Jaish-e-Mohammed, which attempted a similar failed bombing raid on the Indian army barracks in Srinagar last April, is one of 14 rebel groups in Pakistan and is a breakaway fraction of the Harkat ul-Mujahideen.
All of these groups recruit in the universities and mosques of Britain by representatives of British Muslim organisations like the Al- Muhajiroun.
Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, leader of the Al-Muhajiroun group, said: “I understand the worry some sons may have about their sons but it is every Muslim boy’s duty to do military training. If my children wanted to go and fight for Jihad. I would encourage them. These boys don’t go because of what I tell them, of what their parents say but as an obligation to God.
Sheik Omar said most recruits were enlisted after propaganda speeches given by members of his movement at mosques. Universities and community centres.
He said “People are lectured about Islam and their obligations. They are recruited intellectually first and most of the people who go and fight are educated people who make a decision based on their own free will.
They are then questioned about why they want to go before they can be sent away for training.”
Sheik Omar said Bai had passed a
questionnaire and arrangements would be made to settle his debts and look
after his family so he could go to paradise after his martyrdom.
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