ISIS-inspired Briton guilty of murdering imam
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A British Muslim was found guilty on Friday of being inspired by ISIS to help murder a respected local imam who he believed was practising "black magic".
Mohammed Syeedy, 21, and accomplice Mohammed Abdul Kadir followed their victim Jalal Uddin as he walked home from evening prayers at his mosque in Rochdale, northern England, in February and bludgeoned him to death in a park.
Prosecutors said the men had planned the murder for months and stalked Uddin, 72, because he practised something called Ruqya, a form of healing in which he used amulets called Taweez. The attackers, who both followed the Salafist strand of Islam espoused by ISIS, also known as Daesh, believed this to be punishable by death.
