Blood money: British jihadis squeeze UK families for cash

BRITISH jihadis in Syria are posting online video rants asking for money to help fight their war.
RANT: The two jihadis in the video posted online [YOUTUBE]

The extremists slam Muslims for not offering cash to help hundreds of Brit fighters.

Hooded figures with cockney accents also urge people to help the families of around 20 Brits killed in the conflict.

The fighters against President Bashar al-Assad criticise British Muslims who would rather splash out at restaurant chain Nando’s or on ­PlayStation consoles than on supporting them.

In a YouTube tirade, two fighters call on UK Muslims to offer financial help to the families of dead fighters such as Abdul Waheed Majeed, the father-of-three from Crawley, West Sussex, who became the first British suicide bomber in the war.

The footage, which appears to have been shot in Syria, shows two hooded figures, one holding a rifle.

One calls on Muslim “brothers” to “either equip a fighter or to look ­after the family of those brothers we have lost”.

He adds: “It is not much to go to the family of a martyr and drop ten or twenty pounds or thirty, forty or fifty pounds – especially if you know this woman.

CRITICISING: The fighters ask for financial help for the families of dead fighters such as Abdul Waheed Majeed [PA]

“You should be ashamed of yourselves”

One of the men in the YouTube video

I am addressing you brothers…you all know who you are …from the capital…up north, Midlands, wherever you may be, the sincere brothers.
“It is a disgrace. You know where these wives and families are.
“Yet you are buying your child or your nephew a PS4, taking them to Nando’s.”
A second London jihadi adds: “You have enough money to eat out, you have enough money to buy new clothes, you have enough money to buy new cars but you do not have the money to look after the wife of a martyr.
“You should be ashamed of yourselves. What are you doing for these women?”
The fighters are from the Rayat al-Tawheed group, a British jihadist faction in Syria.
Their video came as police ­appealed to Muslim women in Britain to persuade relatives not to join the jihad.
Security chiefs reckon hundreds of people have travelled from the UK to fight in Syria.
Police also confirmed that 40 people were arrested for alleged Syria-related offences during the first three months of 2014.