Islam Yaken before and after joining ISIS. (Photo courtesy: Twitter)
Islamic State's New Icon Is A Hipster Jihadi -- The Telegraph
Sword-wielding supporter of the Caliphate is a university graduate from a well-off Cairo family, say friends.
Islamic State jihadists ruling over much of Syria and Iraq have a new icon, whose fashionably styled curly hair and black-rimmed glasses contrast strikingly with the pose in which he has been photographed: astride a horse, and waving a shining scimitar above his head.
Identified by friends as a young Egyptian university graduate from a well-off Cairo family, Islam Yaken, he has been both lionised and demonised back home as the "hipster jihadi".
Although he is said to have once been a supporter of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood former president, Mohammed Morsi, his friends say there was little to suggest his sudden change of life direction a year ago.
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Update #1: Meet Islam Yaken, a cosmopolitan Egyptian who turned into ISIS fighter -- Al Arabiya
Update #2: The story of Islam Yaken, an Egyptian athlete who turned into ISIL murderer + Pics -- ABNA
My Comment: I guess they are trying to attract the women .... The ISIS Online Campaign Luring Western Girls to Jihad (Daily Beast)
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