Wanted: Mediapersons, Islamic Teachers And Bomb Experts To Fill 10 ISIS Job Posts

By R. Siva Kumar - 12 Apr '15 18:13PM
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If you are looking for a job, then take care to....avoid working in any of the following jobs that have been advertised.

In the beginning of this month, the IS put up a call for employees, for a list of 10 new jobs. The list for jihadi supporters who do not wish to join active fighting has been posted online by a British jihadist who escaped UK to join extremists in Syria.

Oman Hussain, who writes under the name of Abu Sa'eed Al-Britani, explaining that reluctance to fight is a "sign of weak faith", yet a lot of work is available for "press officers, fitness instructors and bomb makers," according to timesofindia.

The theory that the IS militants need jobs is not correct. In fact, they have plenty of jobs that call for employees, according to libertyunyielding.

The top job in the list is press officers for the so-called IS "media centre".

However, slamming the western media for "negative propaganda" against ISIS, Al-Britani says that it needs to build up support for the IS group through "internal media".

Its media blitz was evident through Jihadi John, as well as recruitment magazine, Dabiq. More posts that required filling included doctors, chefs and mechanics. The "bomb making department", including the manufacture of explosives and willingness to go forward as suicide bombers is more open.

Calling the post a "beautiful job for those who truly wish to reap rewards", Al-Britani says that "The brothers in the bomb-making department are the core and backbone of nearly every operation... imagine the reward in preparing a car packed with explosives for a brother to go detonate in enemy lines - you would get the same reward as the brother who pushes the button and sends 50 kuffaar (unbelievers) to hell."

The list also calls for jihadists to operate checkpoints in IS areas. They call it "a fun and rewarding job" that investigates for any banned items like cigarettes as well as contravention of rules.

Islamic police are also required, the document claims, to patrol the streets to violently enforce strict Islamic dress codes and rules.

"They are the ones who carry out the public lashings and beheadings," Al-Britani writes.

"They walk the streets with their sticks, punishing all those who break the law.

"They ensure all shops are closed for salaah times, and if women are dressed unislamicly (sic), then their fathers, brothers or husbands are punished for not ensuring they keep their womenfolk within the confines of the law."

Isis' Sharia courts are also in need of admin staff, caretakers and prison guards, although the list carried a warning that "spies get executed on the spot" directed at any "kaffir reading who thinks he can get in".

But the group's attempt at domination does not stop with adults - it extends to children.

The jobs list advertises for school teachers to teach the "next generation...the correct Islamic teachings".

Al-Britani writes: "Imagine the reward in nurturing a child upon tawheed (oneness with God) and jihad (holy struggle)!

"All his efforts and deeds he does due to you teaching him will earn you huge rewards. And many of these children are the sons and daughters of Mujahedeen and martyrs."

The last of the 10 jobs on the list is fitness trainers who make jihadists do "sit ups, jogs, sprints, muscle building".

Al-Britani wrote: "Some brothers come in with a lot of extra 'barakah' on them which needs to be burnt off, likewise some training camps also teach grappling, knife attacks and defenses, and all sorts of other defence tactics."

Al-Britani is a name used by Omar Hussain, a former Morrisons security guard from High Wycombe who fled to Syria in January 2014. Believed to be in his late 20s, he has previously appeared in propaganda videos urging the West to send ground troops so extremists could send them "back one by one in coffins".

In the same footage, he urged Muslims in the West to launch attacks on home soil to "cause terror in the hearts of the kuffar", according to timesofindia.

In August, following the beheading of US journalist James Foley, Hussain appeared on BBC Newsnight under the pseudonym Awlaki to condone the murder.

"I hate the UK," he said. "The only reason why I would intend to return to the UK is when I want to come and plant a bomb somewhere."

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