He turned his back on America for the lure of “jihad cool” — but his twisted cause had deadly consequences.
A second American paid the ultimate price for joining up with the bloodthirsty Islamic State when he was killed in a weekend fight with a Syrian opposition group, officials said.
Abdirahmaan Muhumed, 29, a father of nine from Minnesota, was killed in the same Syrian battle as another homegrown terrorist, Douglas McAuthur McCain.
It was not known whether they knew each other, but the two died fighting for the same Islamic outfit behind the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
A picture on Muhumed’s Facebook page looked like he was posing for an Islamic terrorist recruitment poster.
It showed him carrying a copy of the Koran in one hand and a rifle in the other.
“I give up this worldly life for Allah,” he wrote in a message to a radio reporter. “Allah loves those who fight for his cause.”
Like McCain, Muhumed hailed from Minnesota, which has a large Somali population — many of whom have been lured by Islamic State through hip-hop videos and other propaganda that has been dubbed “jihad cool.”
The US has not officially confirmed Muhumed’s death, but his family has been notified, according to a report.
A profile of Muhumed by Minnesota Public Radio this past June described him as a 29-year-old Somali-American who had been married more than once and was a father of nine children.
Abdi Bihi, a leader in Minnesota’s Somali community, told a TV station that Islamic State has recently begun trying to recruit young women from the Twin Cities to their cause.
“They are brainwashing them to marry them off to jihadists,” he said. “They call them to help out as nurses, help out the wounded — but the real catch is they will be sexually exploited.”
A handful of Minnesotans are believed to be among the 100 or so Americans who have left the country to take up arms alongside extremists in Syria.
McCain, 33, lived in California before he traveled to Syria this year.
He was identified by his American passport and several neck tattoos.
Meanwhile, Nidal Hasan, the man who shot 13 people to death in the Fort Hood massacre in 2009, asked ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi if he could become a “citizen” of the caliphate in a handwritten letter, Fox News reported.