Why have you taken our grandchildren to a warzone?

Sisters Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their children - who are aged between three and 15 - left their homes last month and are now believed to be in the clutches of the terrorist group.

Tonight, the mothers’ parents Mohammed Ali Dawood and Sara Begum told in a statement issued via police on behalf of their family how they were ‘very worried about the children who could now be in a dangerous place’.

They said: ‘The parents and family members are devastated. This has caused great distress to the family and has also stopped us from living a normal life in the UK since this incident.

‘We do not support the actions of the sisters leaving their husbands and families in the UK and of taking their children into a war zone where life is not safe to join any group.

‘We plea to anyone thinking about making a similar journey not to go… We as family do not hold ourselves or the police responsible for the actions taken by the three sisters.’

'From the images I have seen of a school, boys study on deliberately uncomfortable benches and are forced to write with their right hand.

'In terms of how girls are treated, you can judge much by the fact girls are completely absent from ISIS videos. Like conditions under the Taliban, they are given practically no education, other than perhaps memorising the Koran, and domestics skills.' 

Earlier this year, a manifesto released by ISIS's all-female police force suggested children as young as nine should be encouraged to get married.

The document, titled 'Women in the Islamic State', demands women live a completely 'sedentary' lifestyle and that their role in life should be primarily to remain 'hidden and veiled' and at the service of men, who are described as their masters. 

(dailymail.co.uk)