Playboy jihadi trades clubbing for battlefield, posing with weapons Mahmoud Abdullatif on his Twitter account. Endless testimonials. Glossy magazines about itself. Full-length movies about itself. Billboards about itself. ISIS may be the most self-congratulatory extremist group in history. A PLAYBOY jihadi whose uncle was investigated over a terrorist plot to blow up the MCG has given up his nightclubbing lifestyle to join the Islamic State death cult in Syria. Mahmoud Abdullatif has posted a picture of himself on social media holding a heavy assault rifle, along with horrific photographs of young children posing with guns. MORE: Aussie fighters slip dragnet to join IS battlefield Friends said Abdullatif was a party boy who liked going to clubs, chasing girls and went by an anglicised name. But his extremist conversion was swift, and four months ago he left Australia to join the barbaric IS terrorist fighters in the Middle East. His uncle by marriage is Hany Taha, who was acquitted at trial of a terrorist plot to blow up Melbourne landmarks masterminded by Abdul Nacer Benbrika. An image from the Twitter feed of Mahmoud Abdullatif. Abdullatif's parents have been working with Australian authorities to try to convince him to come home. The former Coburg man's social media page is a mixture of his nightclubbing past and jihad propaganda. He has brazenly boasted online about living in Syria and his desire to reach the front lines. His bio on Instagram says he "just wants to go to go to heaven and live forever." "Wallahi (by Allah) they lie, they kill, they oppress and they brainwash, these people need to die, they don't want the light of Allah to shine,"" he tweeted earlier this month. His Twitter account has now been suspended. A family friend said Abdullatif's family only learnt of his extremist leanings when he arrived in Syria. No one knew. They just found out when he was there. Not even his parents, his brothers or anyone. They have tried to tell him to come back but he won't. Despite attempts to bring him back, the friend said Abdullatif may not yet be involved in fighting. He is always with little kids there. If you were fighting there would not be little kids, maybe the gun is a protection thing but everybody has guns over there. The friend said the family was deeply concerned he would be scarred by his experiences in Syria. It is very sad. After what he has seen there he might not come back. Who knows what he has seen there. I don't know how he decided to go and what his thoughts were. He just booked a flight and it was not until days later that the family knew where he was. The family friend said Abdullatif's radicalisation seemed to have happened online through social media, further increasing fears that young Australian men are being brainwashed into becoming terrorists. The friend said the Abdullatif's family village in Lebanon was near the Syrian border and they had connections with locals who have been affected by the country's three year long civil war. Originally published as Playboy trades clubbing for violent jihad