Md Ashequr Rahman alias Jilani had the kuniya Abu Jandal al-Bangali, according to IS' Dabiq magazine published in April 2014Before Morshed, another Bangladeshi was the subject of a hagiography in IS’ Dabiq magazine. The story of Ashiqur Rahman Jilani, who took the kunya Abu Jandal al-Bangali, was prominently featured in the fourteenth issue of Dabiq, in the 'Among the believers are men' section.
Like Morshed, Jilani enlisted as an istihadi (suicide) fighter when arriving in IS territory. He died, however, during a regular battle near the Syrian town of Ayn Issa. The exact date of his death remains unknown.
Also unknown is the real name of the first Bangladeshi 'martyr' of IS. His kunya was Abu Dujana al-Bengali (the same kunya was later taken by Tamim Chowdhury).
Siful Haque Sujan BBC
According to one of the earliest Bengali propaganda videos produced by Furat Media, Abu Dujana was a Bangladeshi migrant worker who was on his way to Lebanon before being detained as a suspected terrorist in Iraq. He became a jihadi while serving time at the Badosh prison near the city of Mosul and died sometime after his release while fighting for IS in a battle against US and Iraqi forces.
And, who was the Bangladeshi who died for IS but was never hailed as a 'martyr'?
That would be Siful Haque Sujan, who took the kunya Abu Khaled al-Bengali. Haque, the 'top ISIS hacker', was the principal architect of the militant group's cyber warfare and propaganda architecture. He was killed in a US air-strike in city of Raqqa on December 10, 2015.
Tasneem Khalil is an independent Swedish-Bangladeshi journalist.
