'You don't keep the devil in your house': Furious father says he has BINNED family pictures of British medical student, 20, who went to fight jihad and appeared in chilling ISIS recruitment video



Bri tish jihadist who featured in the video name d as Nasser Muthana

Is a 20-year-old medical student from Cardiff and has gone to Syria

Went to the country with his 17-year-old brother Aseel Muthana

His father Ahmad Muthana says he now doesn't want to see them again

Says he has binned family pictures of his son following shocking video

Footage shows men pleading with Muslims to travel join ISIS militants

The furious father of a star medical student who went to fight jihad before appearing in a chilling ISIS recruitment video has said he has binned family pictures of his son.



Nasser Muthana, 20, has been revealed as a key figure in a chilling recruitment video aimed at luring jihadists to Iraq.



The star medical student secretly travelled to Syria from his family home in Cardiff with his 17-year-old brother Aseel - despite being offered the opportunity to study medicine by four universities.



Today, his furious father Ahmed Muthana, 57, said if his sons ever return to the UK, he would like to see them jailed.

He added that his sons have 'betrayed his family and betrayed Britain' - before insisting he had already binned family pictures of his boys because 'you don't keep the devil in your house.'



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Recruiting: Three British men identified as Abu Dujana al Hindi (left) Abu Muthanna al Yemeni (centre) and Abu Bara' Al Hindi (right) urge their 'brothers' to join them

Nasser Muthana, left, pictured in his school uniform and right, in a recruitment video for the al-Qaeda inspired ISIS terror group



Muthana had offers to study medicine at university, but joined ISIS instead (pictured just before leaving Britain)

Mr Muth ana said: 'I feel sick and devastated that my son is caught up in this - he was brought up to love and respect my country which is Britain.



'I am his father and naturally I'm worried about his safety while he is out there. But I am also worried about the evil messages he is spreading in this video - I am concerned that other boys may follow him there.'



The father-of-four has got rid of most of the family photographs of Nasser, adding: 'It's a Moslem thing, you don't keep the devil in your house.'

The father his sons had been 'brainwashed' after they began worshipping at different mosques and grew beards explained: 'They don't represent me now and I don't want to see them again.

'I would love to see them go to jail if they return to the UK alive, if they ever come back.'

Mr Muthana has not seen Nasser, 20, since last November when he gave him £100 pocket money to attend a Moslem seminar in Shrewsbury.



Encouragement: At several points the man identifying himself as Abu Bara' Al Hindi claims joining ISIS will alleviate the stress and 'depression' of living in the West

He said: 'It was a public open meeting to hear a visiting cleric from Saudi or the Emirates, there was nothing radical about it. If there had been I would not have let him go.



'But when we didn't heard from him for five days I reported him as a missing person to the police.



'They came to see me some days later to say he had flown to Turkey. I don't know if he went to the seminar, the police had tracked him to Coventry and then Gatwick airport.



'He flew to turkey then a few days later crossed the border into Syria.'



Yemeni-born Mr Muthana rang Nasser's phone without reply before it was cut off.

The father said: ‘I thought he had got married out there and wasn’t coming back. There was very little I could do anyway. I didn’t thi nk he’d got involved in jihad.’

'He was very kind, very quiet and was into helping people. I thought he was quite Western in outlook. He would play football and rugby with his friends.’

He had not seen their son again until police called at their home in Butetown, Cardiff, to tell them about the video.



Out-of-work electronics engineer Mr Muthana, said: 'They asked me if I had a computer and then showed me it on the screen.



'I was shaking and in tears - my wife fainted and has not recovered from what she saw. I believed it was my son in the video but I did not believe his words. I am fearful he was being fed those words.'

Mr Muthana believes Nasser left Britain with three other Moslem friends who he knew from school in Cardiff.



He said: 'Both my sons have been influenced by outsiders, I don't know by who. He is a calm boy, very bright and a high achiever who had been a place at four different universities to study medicine.

Propaganda: Among those speaking in the video is a man identifying himself as Abu Muthana Al Yemeni (right) - who claims to have travelled to the Middle East from Britain

Global: Another man making an appearance in the chilling video is Abu Yahya ash Shami (pictured) - who speaks with a strong Australian accent

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'He loved rugby, playing football and going camping with his friends. But he has been got at and has left his home and everyone who loves him.

Mr Muthana said there was part of him that wants his boys safely home - but he also feels like disowning them.



He said: 'I wish they would come back, that's all I would say to them - come back. I think they are in the wrong hands. I don't know why they would have done this.



'As far as I know my sons they are very good boys, we had no problems, nothing.'





Muthana is a former pupil of Cathays High School in Cardiff, where he received 13 GCSEs – with 12 at grade A or A*.

After completing his A-levels, the former school council member received four offers from universities to read medicine, but did not take up any. His family said he set off for Syria about eight months ago.

Muthana’s brother Aseel was studying for his A-levels, at the nearby Fitzalan High School, and had dreamed of becoming an English teacher.

Yesterday, to the horror of his relatives, Muthana was videoed bragging of fighting for the Al Qaeda-inspired ISIS terror group.



He appears alongside two other young British jihadists in the 13-minute long, professionally shot video, which was posted online yesterday.

Named in the video as ‘Abu Muthanna Al Yemeni’, he says: ‘We understand no borders. We have participated in battles in Sham [Syria] and in a few days we will go to Iraq and will fight them, and will even go to Lebanon and Jordan, wherever our Sheikh [ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi] wants to send us.’

In a direct message to al-Baghdadi, he adds: ‘Send us, we are your sharp arrows. Throw us at your enemies, wherever they may be.’

One man in the video, named as Abu Bara Al Hindi, claims he too is from Britain, and describes jihad as ‘the cure for depression’.

Speaking in front of the extremist group’s black flag, he asks: ‘Are you willing to sacrifice the fat job you’ve got, the big car you’ve got, the family you have?

‘Are you willing to sacrifice this, for the sake of Allah? Definitely, if you sacrifice something for Allah, Allah will give you 700 times more than this.’ In the video entitled ‘There is no life without Jihad’ the men, who are joined by two Australians and other fighters, claim they are about to cross the border from Syria in to Iraq.

Cathays High School, Cardiff, where the 20-year-old studied - getting 12 GCSEs at A* or A grade

After completing his A-levels, the former school council member received four offers from universities to read medicine. He was supposed to be starting his course in September last year

Muthana¿s brother Aseel was studying for his A-levels, at the nearby Fitzalan High School, picutred, and had dreamed of becoming an English teacher

The third British jihadist, who calls himself Abu Dujana al Hindi, says: ‘A message to the brothers who have stayed behind.

‘You have to ask yourself what prevents you from joining the ranks of the mujahideen? What prevents you from obtaining martyrdom? You are going to die anyway.’

The video, which is interspersed with music and religious chanting, forms part of ISIS’s global propaganda campaign, urging Muslims to post messages of support on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. It follows the publication of its ‘company accounts’ logging assassinations, suicide missions and bombings.

David Cameron has warned that Britain cannot afford to ignore the chaos in Iraq and Syria because of the risk that British jihadis will bring their murderous tactics back to the UK.

He described the estimated 400 British fighters in the region as ‘the most serious threat to Britain’s security that there is today’.



A Home Office spokesman said yesterday: ‘We do not tolerate the existence of online terrorist and extremist propaganda, which directly influences people who are vulnerable to radicalisation.

‘We already work closely with the internet industry to remove terrorist material hosted in the UK or overseas. We also continue to work with charities and community groups to help them challenge those who use the internet to promote extremist ideologies.’

Since February 2010 the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit, run by the Metropolitan Police, says it has taken down over 34,000 unlawful terrorist-related online material which encourages or glorifies acts of terrorism.



Jihad: The professionally-edited footage is intersected with music and religious chanting, with the men instructing viewers to leave behind their lives in the West and join their brutal campaign in Iraq and Syria