mustafa graf, these are your words. "you must dojihad in allah's path."l his connections to the manchester bomber salman abedi. sadly, i wouldn't be surprised if salman abedi's horrific suicide bombing was partly inspired by this sermon. this audio was obtained by the bbc, a recording of friday prayers inside didsbury mosque in december, 2016, the same mosque where salman abedi and his family would pray. we played the sermon in full to two islamic scholars. the jihad he's referring to here is actually being in the battlefield. there's no ifs and buts in this. from the context of the way these texts are used, it's very clearly referring to militaryjihad, to armed jihad. the sermon focused on people suffering in syria. it included an appeal for donations, and also this: oh, dear. so... dear, oh, dear. so he's reiterated the call not only to stop living a normal life, do something drastic, but to be with the small group of true muslims. he's giving them the narrative of "them against us". he is psychologically and practically brainwashing young people into e