Indian ’ISIL’ Recruit Goes Home after Having to Clean Toilets

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An Indian student who traveled to Iraq to join the "ISIL" terrorist group has returned home disillusioned after the extremists made him clean toilets and do other menial jobs, according to media reports.

Areeb Majeed, 23, left for Iraq with three friends in late May amid fears by authorities that "ISIL" militants were attempting to recruit from India's large pool of young men.

The engineering student flew home Friday to Mumbai where he was arrested and charged by India's elite National Investigation Agency [NIA] with terror-related offences.

Majeed told NIA officers he was sidelined by the extremists for whom he fetched water and performed other lowly tasks such as cleaning toilets, instead of taking part in the deadly offensive like he wanted, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
He phoned his family to say he wanted to come home after suffering an unexplained bullet wound for which he did not get proper medical attention, the agency said late Sunday.

"Only after I begged them, I was taken to a hospital," he was quoted as saying by NIA officers. "There was neither a holy war nor any of the preaching in the holy book were followed."

Tanvir Sheikh, the father of one of Majeed's friends who was still missing in Iraq, said he felt betrayed by his son.
Sheikh said his son Fahad was offered a job in Kuwait but instead decided to travel to Iraq to join the extremists.

"I feel let down by my son. He had a bright career ahead of him but he took advantage of our love and betrayed us."

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