Briton boasts of joining ‘golden era of jihad’ and calls for recruits

Londoner Hamzah Parvez, 21, claims he has been fighting for the violent extremists for five months, and calls on other Muslim Britons to give up their weekly Nandos and “come to the land of jihad and shout Allah”.

His face hidden behind a black scarf which only shows his eyes, and speaking in a thick London accent, he tells the camera: “This is the golden era of jihad.

“What are we doing sitting in the UK? Sitting in the land which kills Muslims every day.

“What are we doing in 
their lands? It is not the lands for us.”

In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.

He said there are “jobs for doctors, nurses, architects, builders even for street cleaners in the Islamic State”.

He added: “Are we content with eating Nando’s every week? Come to the land of jihad and shout Allah.”

Parvez, 21, comes from a stable home in west London, but earlier this year he lied to his family claiming he was travelling to Germany to study.

He convinced them to pay for his trip, but instead slipped out of Europe and travelled to the Middle East where he joined the estimated 2,000 foreign fighters there.

His family later spoke of their devastation at Parvez’s decision.

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