18-Year-Old Boy Nicknamed ‘Osama Bin Bieber’ Allegedly Part of ISIS

Allegedly among the foreign recruits in the militant group known as ISIS is an 18-year-old British schoolboy who goes by the nickname “Osama Bin Bieber.”

Mohammad Hadi, whose fresh-faced features led to his nickname, is allegedly part of the Islamic paramilitary group threatening to destabilize the Middle East. According to the Daily Mail, Hadi claims he had been radicalized at a madrassa by an extremist cleric, and left London in March along with three men. Much like Justin Bieber, he uses social media to push his latest albums/jihadist propaganda, and his Twitter and Instagram feeds soon indicated that he was in Syria with ISIS. (His accounts have since been suspended.)

Hadi’s parents had reported their son’s growing extremism to the police earlier, and filed a missing persons report soon after his disappearance. “We can’t talk about it – I don’t know anything about it. The police know better than me,” his father, Mahir Hadi, told The Sun on Sunday.

About 500 British Muslims are estimated to be fighting in ISIS, but only one of them will inevitably get a Facebook fan page full of teenage girls who think he’s hot.

[h/t and image via The Daily Mail]

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