Eight British school girls travel to Syria to become IS brides

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Eight British school girls travel to Syria to become IS brides
By Web Desk
Published: February 24, 2015

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Over the past seven months, eight British school girls traveled to Syria and hundreds more besotted British women have proposed marriage to extremists online, Mail Online reported.

The school girls have used a route which has become to be known as the ‘jihadi bride trail’ and the true figure is likely to be higher as British police and families have imposed news blackouts in some cases.

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East London school girls Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15 are reported to be in Syria after they flew out from Gatwick earlier this month. A fourth unnamed girl from the same school went out in December.

Read: Islamic State poses serious threat to Pakistan: FO

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Read: Police hunt for ‘IS-bound’ London girls

Several radical websites like ‘Jihad Matchmaker’ offer to arrange marriages between Muslim women and militants and have been blamed for encouraging young, impressionable girls to travel to Syria.

The website states it is based in Syria and uses the motto ‘keep it halal and get married’, while its official Twitter account says ‘Jihad Matchmaker is here to link up those seeking marriage in Syria in a halal manner.’

Read: Cyberwar: Anonymous takes down Islamic State websites, social media accounts

It is currently unknown how many brides the site has matched to militants but it has 378 followers, many of whom are young Western Muslim women.

Just last year, the site was forced to deny that it was linked to any terrorist groups after it was alleged to have been responsible for helping to radicalise teenage girls in the UK.

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The website encourages women seeking a militant husband to make contact through a third party or agent who could represent the girl’s interests under Islamic law.

It further claims that ‘All actions will be conducted via Shariah acceptable routes and means once agreement and compatibilities are established.’

Security sources have said that hundreds of British women have put marriage proposals to militants on the front line with the Islamic State (IS).

One European fighter in Syria has become a pin-up fighter and has been bombarded with proposals from women all over the world, desperate to be associated with a ‘holy warrior’.

The ‘jihadi bride trail’ route was used by another four girls who are believed to have married IS fighters after travelling to Syria via Istanbul from different airports in the UK.

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Manchester twins Salma and Zahra Halane fled in June 2014 to join the IS and are the first known British schoolgirls to travel to Syria. Reports, however, have said that they are now teenage widows after their militant husbands were killed in battles with Kurdish forces or in coalition bombing raids.

It is currently estimated that a total of 60 women are in Syria living with the IS.

With the number of British girls and women travelling to join the IS, it has sparked an uproar across the globe.




Eight British school girls travel to Syria to become IS brides – The Express Tribune

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Jihadi Janes ?

 

[itachiii]

good for the gals...

 

[jaatram]

WTF? Don't want an infraction but seriously Wtf?

PS. On topic: May these sisters succeed in whatever they went to do there for their brothers.

 

[C130]

they are basically just baby jahadi factories
they have been spoiled in the West when they get to Raqqa they are in for a rude awakening.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Shouldn't Turkey adopt a more strict approach as to who enters and exits their borders? These girls are 15 years old which would classify them as minors. How did the UK permit them to exit without parental consent ? How did Turkey permit them to enter without one and how did Turkey permit them to exit Turkish territory without one ?

 

[C130]

Each one of them will produce 10-15 modern generation educated Jihadis in future. Be careful.

if they can survive a year I will be surprised.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

They are at that stage in their lives. You know the one. Awkward glances, secret letters, worries of rejection. We all went through it.

Too young and stupid. But young.

 

[C130]

Shouldn't Turkey adopt a more strict approach as to who enters and exits their borders? These girls are 15 years old which would classify them as minors. How did the UK permit them to exit without parental consent ? How did Turkey permit them to enter without one and how did Turkey permit them to exit Turkish territory without one ?

Turkey could shut down the border with ease or at least make it harder for ISIL, but they chose not too.

buses,school, and markets would be blown up within days.


ISIL has leverage.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

Turkey could shut down the border with ease or at least make it harder for ISIL, but they chose not too.

buses,school, and markets would be blown up within days.


ISIL has leverage.

What about the UK and them permitting minors to travel unaccompanied ?

 

[rockstar08]

If they want to commit suicide , let them do ...

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

What about the UK and them permitting minors to travel unaccompanied ?

That does seem very disturbing that a minor could board an international flight and leave the country never to be seen again.

Saw some rules here (maybe just US rules) that seem not much better than nothing.

Children Flying Solo | IndependentTraveler.com

 

[Arya Desa]

This is all they wanted.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

That does seem very disturbing that a minor could board an international flight and leave the country never to be seen again.

Saw some rules here (maybe just US rules) that seem not much better than nothing.

Children Flying Solo | IndependentTraveler.com

Those rules are international and are rigidly enforced in SADAC states. Hence my query about the UK. Reckless in my view

 

[Gunsnroses]

Sad, so sad for the parents who didn't know their daughters were getting hornier day by day for these ISIS scumbags. European muslims being liberal not liberal should keep an eye nowadays and an iron fist bringing up their children. Another sad state is here muslims from south Asia are more inclined towards that poisonous takfiri ideology so do their children. Not long ago I walked out from a mosque in London when during the Friday khutba Imam, an Arab descent, went on preaching usual shirk bidat techniques to commoners. This is the fundamental teachings of all militant groups who first denounce all others kharijul Islam hence wajibul qatal. Once the brain is plagued, no matter if you are educated or not, you will fall prey and do wonders like these girls.