Tarik Chadlioui (Tarik Ibn Ali)

Islamic ExtremismIslamistPan-IslamistRecruiterDaesh

Feb 28

**DOB:** 1973/1974

**Nationality:** Belgian-Moroccan

**Location:** Belgium/United Kingdom
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Islamism/Jihadism/Islamic Supremacism/Salafism

**Type of Leader:** Recruiter/Fundraiser/Propagandist/Preacher

Other names: Tarik Ibn Ali

Current Status: Islamist extremist preacher and former leader of Sharia4Belgium, a now-defunct Belgium-based group

Biography

Tarik Chadlioui is a Belgian-Morrocan Islamist preacher who has been frequently accused of running fundraising and recruitment activities across Europe for Daesh and other Islamist extremist organisations in Syria. Chadlioui was formerly located in Belgium but later relocated to Egypt in 2010 following the Belgian government’s decision to ban Islamic face coverings for women in public. During his time in Egypt, he made visits to Europe to talk at mosques and Islamic events. He later relocated to the United Kingdom in 2015.

On his YouTube channel and other social media accounts, he is accused of broadcasting video propaganda in favour of Daesh. He is also suspected of preaching hateful sermons in a Paris mosque where the Bataclan bomber, Omar Mostefai — one of three Daesh shooters who stormed a theatre in 2015, killing 130 people — used to attend regularly.

According to Spanish authorities, Chadlioui also had a footprint in Spain, with Spanish authorities accusing him of being the spiritual leader of a Daesh-supporting cell in Spain.

In June 2017, following his relocation to the UK, British officials detained Chadlioui in Birmingham as part of a Europe-wide counter-Daesh operation — accusing him of recruiting for the terror organisation through his social media videos. In October 2017, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court ordered Chadlioui’s extradition to Spain. He was later arrested on multiple charges in Madrid in February 2018 but is currently on provisional release after paying 60,000 euros in bail in January 2019. Since his release, he has remained active on Facebook and YouTube, despite his posts generally having not contained offensive and radical preaching.

163K followers

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7.1K subscribers

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Banned

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Tarik Ibn Ali

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

July 2017: In a three-part video series filmed in Majorca with the translated title “Tufiq went Syria”, Chadlioui was accused of telling youngsters how they should wage holy wars against “infidels”, promising paradise in return.

June 2017: In a banned video on YouTube, Chadlioui clearly incites violence and hatred by saying that “Muslims should take up armed punishments in the secular lands.”

November 2015: Radicalised Omar Mostefai, who blew himself up after killing some 89 people at Bataclan Theater in Paris, had attended hate-filled sermons of radical preacher Tarik Chadlioui at a Paris Mosque, calling Muslims to fight against “kuffar [infidels]” and become martyrs.

2015: Unlike other hate preachers, counter-terrorism experts claim that this is the first time in Europe that an imam has been directly involved in the planning of terrorist assaults. According to the Spanish police, “he had visited Mallorca in early 2015 where he began to create a group, those who are now under arrest, with the intention of recruiting, indoctrinating and radicalising on behalf of ISIS, becoming from that moment, their spiritual leader.”

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