Popular among the Islamists from the Anglo-world on Twitter, Ahmad Bashir, or better known under his provocative twitter name @dimashqee, has grown to a real intellectual star attracting attention from various journalists & academics alike online with his impeccable command over the English language & cherrypicked historical knowledge. Lesser known about him is his past within the Islamist movement, a part of his life which he has been trying to erase without much success. As he and his minions constantly kept reporting the twitter accounts I created that showed what kind of a disgusting manipulative rat he actually is, I created this blog in order to reveal his actual face behind his pseudo-intellectual mask & kosher English.The ISIS-fanatic who couldn't grow a beard
According to his own story, he is of Syrian-Arab descent and was born in Damascus, hence explaining his nickname Dimashqee, not paying enough attention in school back when he was little is also his reason why he argued that his Arabic isn't as good as that one of a fluent speaker. I couldn't confirm whether this story is true or false but you won't be surprised to see people claiming that he is actually of Pakistani descent. Not seeing any reason why he would lie about his ethnic heritage, let's assume that his story is true and explains his lack of Arabic. He and his family later moved to the UK, to Coventry to be more precise where he quickly became close to ISIS around the age of 15-16.
To give you some ideas of the tweets he posted (some Twitter veterans might know him from his previous accounts: buruan8 / ghazishami / ghazi_dimashqi and eventually dimashqee) Please bear in mind that while he occasionally has posted regret and blamed his history on being ignorant (things he quickly deleted afterward) that his tweets from his past show no clue of any ignorance at all, he was fully aware of the crimes committed by ISIS and openly endorsed them, including the execution of a boy for breaking his fast and offering cookies to his friends.
One thing that didn't change though is his intense hatred against Kurds and Shias, which he doesn't explicitly states anymore but cloaks around being anti-Marxist.
Well, apparently beheadings aren't as cruel as we though them to be.
The fall of the ISIS-colonel
According to one theory, I've heard from his side, he became disillusioned with the way ISIS was behaving as a state without giving many details. Whatever his issue was with ISIS, knowing that he actively supported their crimes you'd hardly be convinced that it had to do with their executions and repression that they brought. The other theory, which sounds more likely to me, is that he grew out to be the biggest English-twitter supporter of ISIS, now when the Western governments together with social media sites started cracking down on them ISIS instructed its members to join the fight on the ground, which, while bragging about how "fierce" the British volunteers were & advising girls to join the caliphate, he refused to do so leading to his excommunication from the group. Add to that the fact that his friend Shamiwitness got caught in Hawai while too advising people to go to the caliphate he realized that his links with ISIS would cost him dearly, acting like a true opportunist.
Regarding his friend & him (while he doesn't get mentioned by name): https://news.vice.com/article/unmasking-of-shamiwitness-offers-glimpse-into-the-bizarre-world-of-islamic-state-twitter-fanboys
Here are some tweets regarding that era that in my opinion strengthen the second theory:
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