Najmadin Faraj Ahmad, also known as Mullah Krekar, was born in 1956 in Sulaymaniyah. He holds a master's degree in hadith science.
He speaks Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, English and Norwegian.
He has more than 1,000 lectures and forty books.
The parties opposed to Mullah Krekar call him a terrorist. However, Mullah Krekar himself and his supporters deny this and believe that he is not a terrorist and there is no evidence to prove this, saying that the Norwegian court has not been able to prove that he is a terrorist.
He has six brothers and four sisters.
He started his education in 1962 and completed his primary and secondary education in Sulaymaniyah.
In 1974, he became a Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
After the collapse of the September Revolution in 1975, he returned to Sulaymaniyah and later moved to Erbil. At the age of 19, he was employed as an employee in the General Trust for Social Affairs.
In 2009, he praised Osama bin Laden on a US television program called The Wanted and also praised the terrorists who blew themselves up in Iraq.
The third complaint alleges that in 2008, 2009 and 2010, he threatened to kill three Kurds living in Norway on Paltalk and encouraged people to assault them whenever they could because they had insulted Islam, the Qur'an and Muslims.
Finally, the court sentenced Mullah Krekar to two years and ten months in prison on three complaints. He was finally released on 25-01-2015.
On 26-03-2020, the Norwegian government extradited Mullah Krekar to Italy, where an Italian court sentenced him to 12 years in prison. [1]