CERTAIN Islamic State fighters are claiming they are victims of nepotism as Iraqi militants favour friends and family members for suicide missions.

Pro IS cleric, Kamil Abu Sultan spoke out about the grievances of Chechen IS fighters forced to wait on long lists in Syria to get the chance to blow themselves up.

Others, he says, are bumped to the top of the list in blatant cases of favouritism, reports Radio Free Europe.

Abu Sultan is from Dagestan, Russia’s ethnically diverse North Caucasus bordering Chechnya where a steadily growing number of fighters have joined the ranks of IS.

The written complaint entitled “Corruption In Dawlah” was hosted on a website called Qonah which has reported links to a Chechen militant in charge of IS’s Yarmouk Battalion.

Some fighters are so fed up with the long waiting lists in Syria — where demand to become a martyr is especially high — they are heading to Iraq where waiting lists can be considerably shorter.

“Amir Akhmed al-Shishani told me about a young lad who went to Iraq for a suicide mission, and he went there because in Sham (Syria) there is a very long queue,” Abu Sultan wrote in the post, according to Radio Free Europe.

However after waiting in line for three months in Iraq, the young fighter became disheartened and returned to Syria. The post said he later went to local leadership in the group to complain about nepotistic Saudis. He grumbled that fighters needed “blat” — a colloquial Russian word for connections — in order to blow themselves up.

“Those Saudis have got things sewn up, they won’t let anyone in, they are letting their relatives go to the front of the line using blat,” Abu Sultan said.

Reports about the existence of waiting lists for wannabe suicide bombers began surfacing in western media in 2014.

Melbourne teenager Jake Bilardi was reported by The Australian to be on a waiting list with 11 other hopefuls. A blog post at the time, thought to be posted by him read “waiting for my turn to stand before Allah. There is a “current waiting list of 12 martyrdom bombers, of which I am one”.

Sadly, the 18-year-old got his chance in March of this year after fleeing to join the group months earlier.

Foreign fighters, particularly from western countries are prized by the Islamic State and it was speculated that his nationality played a role in his choosing.

Others, envious of the fate of Bilardi, are reportedly waiting so long they are getting killed in battle — considered to be a less noble way to die.