Bangladeshi-Brit IS sympathiser found teaching in UK schools

The Daily Mail reported that a British man of Bangladeshi origin who expressed solidarity with IS had been teaching at secondary schools in the UK. The 26-year-old IS-sympathiser Imran Ibn Khaleed, born Imran Miah, was raised in the UK. The Daily Mail spoke to his mother Anwara Begum, who said Imran had left for Egypt or Bangladesh for a few months. Imran worked as a substitute teacher with Enlightenment Supply Pool Limited at various public schools in London. On his social media accounts, he posted homophobic and IS-sympathetic messages and content on a regular basis. Many of his posts were considered to be disturbing and some outright alarming when Imran taunted the families of the 86 people killed in the terror attack in Nice in 2016. Under a newspaper article mourning the victims, he wrote: “Our dead are in Jannah [paradise] whilst yours are in Fire.” Two members of the House of Lords who specialise in domestic security also expressed their concern over a person with such allegiance teaching children. Lord Carlile of Berriew, one of Britain’s top legal experts and former reviewer of terror legislation, said Imran’s remarks could be in breach of the 2006 Terrorism Act and warrants police investigation. Former security minister Lord West of Spithead said: “If people are writing that sort of stuff, employers should be allowed to say they don’t want someone like that working for them. “If you published a book with that in it, you would be fined, so I think the internet companies should be treated like publishing houses.” Imran had also expressed solidarity with various others in demanding the release of Samiun Rahman, a British man who was arrested in 2014 by Bangladesh Police for recruiting Bangladeshis for the IS. The Daily Mail investigation into Imran’s life did not reveal much about his personal life from his family. But the British newspaper reports the journalist pursuing the news received a call from an unknown man who identified himself as a cousin of Imran. The “cousin” claimed that Imran had no connection to terrorism and did not condone violence in any form. Shortly after the conversation, Imran’s instagram account was shut down and on Facebook he lamented that the IS grip over Mosul was broken.