Australian doctor, Tareq Kamleh, who joined Islamic State in 2015 has surfaced in a new propaganda video that shows him working in a hospital, holding a machine gun and telling Muslims who don’t join Islamic State that they have “no self-respect”.
Tareq, a paediatric doctor, first appeared in an IS propaganda video in 2015, spruiking its health services and urging other Muslim health professionals to join him in the IS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. His sudden departure from Australia shocked colleagues at hospitals in South Australia and Queensland, who said he was a lazy doctor who would flirt with his patients and use his charm and good looks to get nurses to do his work.
On Tuesday, a fresh video surfaced online suggesting Kamleh has survived more than two years of fighting in the region and sustained air strikes by coalition forces. The video focuses on civilian victims of the air strikes and spruiks the heroics of Raqqa’s fighters. With a long beard and his Australian accent noticeable, Kamleh is filmed inside a tunnel under Raqqa attacking Muslims who haven’t joined the terrorist group. “It really surprises me how the Muslim nation is acting at the moment and how stagnant you have all become,” Kamleh says.
“You are living in the countries that are sending us rockets. You are living in the countries that are killing Muslimeen here and you are paying taxes still to them. You have no honour, you have no self-respect, you have no love for fellow Muslims. We’re dealing with the countless numbers of burnt children that are coming in at the moment from the continuous bombings that America is dropping on us … Is this one of the terrorists that America’s wanting to hit? This girl lost her mother, father and four siblings last night.”
Kamleh, who goes by the nom-de-guerre Abu Yousef Al-Australi, grew up in Perth to a Palestinian father and German mother and spent his career working in hospitals in Adelaide, Mackay and Alice Springs.
Sources say that Kamleh suddenly morphed from a partying “playboy” doctor to a strict Muslim after a mysterious camping trip during his time at Mackay Base Hospital in 2013.
Source: Brisbane Times