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via Tajik IS Militant In Syria: ‘We’ll Convert Native Americans To Islam And Build Them Mosques’. h/t TROP

A Tajik militant claiming to be fighting alongside the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria has told RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, Radio Ozodi, that his goal is to introduce Shari’a law throughout the world, including among Native Americans.

The 38-year-old militant, who gave his name as Nusrat Nazarov, also goes under several other names including Makhsumi Nurat and Abu Kholidi Kulobi. A video of a Tajik militant named Abu Kholidi Kulobi appeared online in August.

Nazarov says that he is from the village of Charmgaron in the Kulob district of Tajikistan and that he went to Syria two years ago and now lives in a suburb of Raqqa, the Islamic State group’s de facto capital in Syria.

According to Nazarov, he had been living and working in Moscow before coming to Syria via Turkey.

“This is not the only route. There are dozens of other ways for our brothers to unite with us. If Turkey closes the route, then there is Yemen and other states,” Nazarov said.

According to Nazarov, he originally fought alongside Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate.

“After I learned about their cooperation with the West, I quit their ranks,” Nazarov said.

Nazarov said that IS planned to spread Shari’a law around the world and subjugate the global population to the “caliphate” (the name given by IS to the areas under its control.)

“Even the [Native Americans] will have to live under Shari’a. We will take them tubeteikas [Central Asian caps, worn in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan], we will build mosques for them, and we will live with them according to the laws of Allah,” Nazarov said.