Abdul Qadir Mumin was a senior al-Shabaab religious authority and Islamic State leader.
Biography[]
Abdul Qadir Mumin was born in Somalia to a Muslim family, and he immigrated to the United Kingdom in 2005 during the political crisis in East Africa. In 2010, he appeared at a CAGE conference condemning the West's anti-terror tactics in the Middle East, and he radicalized young men to become Islamists. He fled to Somalia a few months later, and he became a religious authority in the al-Shabaab terrorist group. On 22 October 2015, he pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State, and he resided in Galgala, Puntland.