Teen Makes Creepy TV Confession For Assassinating Chinese Imam

Internet videos blamed for 'jihad'.

A video of a 19-year-old Chinese Muslim man confessing to assassinating the Imam of China's largest mosque, has been aired in Beijing.

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Nurmemet Abidilimit told Chinese state TV journalists that he learnt what 'jihad' was through internet videos, before joining two other men in killing the 74-year-old Imam, Jume Tahir (pictured below), in July.

"I learnt the word "jihad" for the first time from a video. Before that, I’d never heard of this concept," he said.

According to reports, the government-appointed Imam, Jume Tahrir operated the 600-year-old Id Kah mosque in the city of Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

"Jume Tahir was the target of our jihad because he distorted the doctrine."

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Chinese state media reports, the man's two other accomplice's were killed at the scene, which occurred after morning prayers at the mosque.

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The video of the confession can be seen here:

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