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‘Abd al-Qādir Mū‘min (born c. 1950s) is a Somali-born British citizen and the leader of the Islamic State in Somalia. He was formerly a senior religious authority in al-Shabab.
History
Mū‘min arrived to the United Kingdom in 2005 – 2006.
In 2010, he took part in a press conference alongside the ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner Moazzam Begg for the charity CAGE (organisation), which was launching a report criticizing Western anti-terror tactics in East Africa.
A few months later he fled to Somalia, after coming under investigation by MI5 for radicalising young men. He joined al-Shabaab.
On October 22, 2015, he pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State, creating the "Islamic State in Somalia" (Abnaa ul-Calipha).
He is located in the Galgala region, in Puntland, Somalia.