Path to jihad: from upscale Cairo to Islamic State beheadings

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Going overboard with regard to your religious beliefs that it includes beheadings and mutilations has to be signs of some serious mental illness. People like this are psychotic.

Path to jihad: from upscale Cairo to Islamic State beheadings

BY MAHMOUD MOURAD

CAIRO Wed Sep 3, 2014 1:20pm EDT

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Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014.

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(Reuters) - After leaving his upscale Cairo neighborhood to fight with the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq, Younes says he learned how to work as a sniper, fire heavy weaponry and behead prisoners using the proper technique.

One year later he harbors the kind of ambition that could create a security nightmare for Egyptian authorities: to return home and hoist the Islamic State's black flag in Egypt as his comrades have over large swathes of Iraq and Syria.

Eventually, says Younes, he and other Egyptian fighters in Islamic State intend to topple Egypt's U.S.-backed government and extend their caliphate to the biggest Arab nation.

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