Abdul Qadir Mumin

‘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
Born in Somalia, Mū‘min arrived to the United Kingdom in 2005 – 2006, having previously lived in Sweden. While in the UK, he preached at Masjid Quba in Leicester and the Greenwich Islamic Centre in London. 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.

On 31 August 2016 he was designated as a 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' by the United States Department of State.