Husbands of two of the three sisters who allegedly took their nine children and fled to join IS terrorists in Syria last week, claim that UK police encouraged and promoted’ the radicalization of three sisters who went to join Islamic State terrorists last week.
According to reports the Husbands ‘Mohammed Shoaib, 39’, and ‘Akhtar Iqbal, 48’ have written to the Home and Foreign Secretaries, and chairman of the Home Affairs Committee.
The duo claimed that the UK police played a part in sending their wives along with their nine children aged three to 15, towards IS by encouraging contact with their radicalized brother in Syria. However the UK senior officers rejected the claim.
The letter in which the lawyers of the Shoaib and Akhtar calim: ‘We are alarmed by the fact that the police have been actively promoting and encouraging contact with the brother-in-law of our clients whom, it is believed, is fighting in Syria.
‘It would appear that there has been a reckless disregard as to the consequences of any such contact on the families. ‘Plainly the North East Counter-Terrorism Unit (Nectu) has been complicit in the grooming and radicalizing of the women.’
The Prime Minister had also called on relatives to stop blaming police and the security services for failing to prevent British teenagers travelling to Syria.
Tory MP Peter Bone echoed Mr Cameron’s views, saying: ‘It is frankly foolish to accuse the police of being involved in grooming or radicalising of these women.‘These women apparently chose to go to Syria and take their children with them”, he added.
The men made a tearful TV appeal on Tuesday for their wives to come back. The public appeal was picked up by media around the world. The father revealed the last time he saw his two daughters was on the day when he left the UK. ‘I cannot sleep or eat with worry now,the father mourns.
The fathers made an heart-rending appeal with their wives and children to come back to home.