Call of mercy to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from British Muslim aid workers

18th September 2014

The charity which Alan Henning was working with when he was kidnapped in Syria has made a direct appeal to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for his release.

Al-Fatiha Global made a video in which they described taxi driver Mr Henning, 47, as an innocent man who was trying to help Muslims.

Mr Henning was driving an ambulance in a convoy organised by Al-Fatiha when he was kidnapped just half an hour after crossing the Syrian border on Boxing Day 2013.

Several other charity workers were also abducted but they were all Muslims and were freed within hours.

However, Mr Henning is the latest hostage to be threatened with execution by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), appearing at the end of a video in which British hostage David Haines was murdered.

In this YouTube video, titled “Call of Mercy to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from British Muslim Aid Workers“, a member of the charity reaches out to the leader of ISIS to release Mr Henning for the sake of Islam.