Before their mothers smuggled them into a war zone, the children phoned their fathers back in the UK and said: ‘We love you, we’re missing you, we can’t wait to come home.’
Younger brother Ahmed, who has been inside IS for a year, is thought to have persuaded Sugra over Skype calls that the extremists stood for ‘what is right’.
She then seems to have signed up sisters Khadija, 29, and Zohra, 32.
A family friend revealed Sugra had urged her brother to return, but Ahmed, 21, replied: ‘I have burnt my passport and am never coming back.’
He told his sister she would ‘do the same’ too if she knew what Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was ‘doing to our women and children’. He seems to have told her ‘genuine’ IS supporters were not involved in beheadings or other atrocities.
‘He kept on justifying what was going on, and giving reasons, and Sugra seemed to be open to persuasion,’ said the friend.
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‘On one occasion Sugra said: “If we don’t help them, what type of Muslims are we?” She started speaking sympathetically about them.’
The story of the Dawood sisters and their decision to join the warped cause of IS begins in the early Seventies when their parents settled in the UK.
Mohammad Dawood, a former market trader, and wife Sara Begum came to Britain from a village in the Pathan community on the north-west frontier of Pakistan, near the Afghan border.
The family friend said: ‘Ahmed became the primary carer for his father and did everything for him. Ahmed was a very normal and typical young man.
'He was not evil and not a fanatic at all, he was not pious, never went to the mosque and was just an everyday lad.’
But he started watching jihadi recruitment videos purporting to show Assad’s forces raping women and torturing children. ‘He became a different person,’ said the friend.
Ahmed was ‘like a son’ to Sugra as they had lived together for several years when their parents returned home to Pakistan for a time.





She then seems to have signed up sisters Khadija, 29, and Zohra, 32.
A family friend revealed Sugra had urged her brother to return, but Ahmed, 21, replied: ‘I have burnt my passport and am never coming back.’
He told his sister she would ‘do the same’ too if she knew what Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was ‘doing to our women and children’. He seems to have told her ‘genuine’ IS supporters were not involved in beheadings or other atrocities.
‘He kept on justifying what was going on, and giving reasons, and Sugra seemed to be open to persuasion,’ said the friend.
Continue reading
‘On one occasion Sugra said: “If we don’t help them, what type of Muslims are we?” She started speaking sympathetically about them.’
The story of the Dawood sisters and their decision to join the warped cause of IS begins in the early Seventies when their parents settled in the UK.
Mohammad Dawood, a former market trader, and wife Sara Begum came to Britain from a village in the Pathan community on the north-west frontier of Pakistan, near the Afghan border.
The family friend said: ‘Ahmed became the primary carer for his father and did everything for him. Ahmed was a very normal and typical young man.
'He was not evil and not a fanatic at all, he was not pious, never went to the mosque and was just an everyday lad.’
But he started watching jihadi recruitment videos purporting to show Assad’s forces raping women and torturing children. ‘He became a different person,’ said the friend.
Ahmed was ‘like a son’ to Sugra as they had lived together for several years when their parents returned home to Pakistan for a time.
This is what I wil call brainwashing of the highest order.. May God heal the world of the terrors
ReplyDeleteThis is what I wil call brainwashing of the highest order.. May God heal the world of the terrors
ReplyDeleteThis is what I wil call brainwashing of the highest order.. May God heal the world of the terrors
ReplyDeleteThis is what I wil call brainwashing of the highest order.. May God heal the world of the terrors
ReplyDeleteThis is what I wil call brainwashing of the highest order.. May God heal the world of the terrors
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