A woman
believed to be a British medical student who left the UK in order to
join ISIS has posted an image on social media of herself holding a
severed head.
The
woman, who goes by the Twitter name of Mujahidah Bint Usama, claims to
be a doctor for the terror group based in Raqqa, Syria.
In
the image, which was used as her profile picture but has since been
removed, she can be seen wearing a full burka and white lab coat while
holding the head of a man.
A British medical
student calling herself Mujahidah Bint Usama, 21, posted this image
online of her holding a severed head while two children look on
(censored by MailOnline)
To the left of the image, two children can be seen standing beside her.
Her
name reflects her jihadi convictions, with Mujahidah appearing to be
the female version of mujahadid - meaning soldier of God.
Bint translates as 'child of', while Usama likely references Osama Bin Laden.
The
gruesome image appears alongside the message 'Dream job, a terrorist
doc,' followed by images of smiley faces and love hearts.
According to The Sunday Telegraph, she is a 21-year-old British medical student.
Bint
Usama, who has more than 800 followers on the social media site, has
previously tweeted images of dead soldiers and the 9/11 terror attacks,
alongside information on how to treat an injured knee and insomnia.
GCHQ
and MI5 are known to be monitoring the accounts of around 60 female
British jihadis who are believed to be in Raqqa in order to put together
a picture of their activities.
The
Government has previously stated that those who take part in atrocities
such as beheadings and massacres will be prosecuted for war crimes and
terror offences if they return to the UK.
In
other online messages Bint Usama praised Anwar al-Awlaki, an extremist
Yemeni preacher who became an Al-Quaeda spokesman and is believed to
have inspired hundreds of Western jihadis.
She
also praises women to push their husbands into fighting for Islam, and
shared images of the execution of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff, who
was beheaded by ISIS earlier this month.
Sixty
female British jihadis are now thought to be with ISIS, including Aqsa
Mahmood, 20 (left), who is believed to be leading the al-Khanssaa
brigade in Raqqa, and Zahra Halane, 16, who fled the UK with her twin
sister
Bint
Usama has been linked through her Twitter account to the al-Khanssaa
brigade, an all-female group of jihadists who are charged with punishing
'un-Islamic' behaviour by women in Raqqa.
The
name likely derives from Al-Khansa, a famous 7th-century female poet
and contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad who converted to Islam and
wrote elegies for his brothers, father and children after they were
killed in battle.
This
week members of the brigade, which is thought to be led by British
extremists, were reported to be acting as madams running brothels filled
with captured Yazidi women, according to the Mirror.
As
many as 3,000 women and girls have been taken captive from the Yazidi
tribe in Iraq as Isis militants continue their reign of terror across
the region.
The
think tank MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institution) released a
report saying that IS had taken many Yazidi women to be sold and used
as sex slaves.
The
al-Khanssaa brigade is a female-only militia set up by the Islamic
State in Raqqa, Syria, with a key figure believed to be Aqsa Mahmood,
20, of Glasgow, who fled to the country last year.
Academics
at King's College London have identified three other British females as
members of the group - and say there are about 60 UK women who have
gone to Syria on jihad.
Most
of these women - including privately-educated Mahmood - are aged
between 18 and 24, with al-Khanssaa said to be seeking out people
engaging in Western culture in Raqqa.
It
is believed that US hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff were both
beheaded in the desert near Raqqa - and therefore the British women in
al-Khanssaa could know who killed them.
All of the women are thought to be
based in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria (pictured), where the
female al-Khanssaa brigade has been established to punish un-Islamic
behaviour among women
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