UK parents told to take away passports of girls at terror risk

February 22, 2015 16:45

Amid reports that three missing British Muslim schoolgirls may have crossed over to Syria to join Islamic State terrorists, parents in Britain are being asked to confiscate the passports of their children if they feel they were at a similar risk.

The head of Inspire, a human rights organisation working with Muslim women, called on schools to do more to burst the 'romanticised notion' of IS that is being peddled to young people by a slick online propaganda machine.

Sara Khan said the tactics used by those luring young girls to Syria and Iraq to marry them off to jihadis or force them into domestic servitude were the grooming methods of paedophiles.

"We need to stop using the phrase 'jihadi brides'," she told the Guardian.

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