Two more girls have reportedly fled their home in Austria — and it’s feared they may have gone to fight with Islamic State in Syria.
The sisters, named only as Viktoria, 16, and Violetta, 17, disappeared from their Vienna home at 11pm last Saturday night and according to the Austrian interior ministry, the girls left with just their clothes and passports.
Violetta and Viktoria. (Photo: Police)
They left behind their the 46-year-old widowed Turkish mother, who lost her husband about a year ago to cancer, website The Local reports.
“Reviewing their behaviour over the last few weeks I’m convinced and worried that they may have travelled to Syria to join Isis and fight in the Jihad,” the girls’ mother said, according to the website.
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The good news is they don't have to die for the cause---just live under it. How do they like being covered from head to toe, not being allowed out in public without a male who is a relative, having no rights, not being allowed to drive, dance, listen to music, seeing the world through a couple of slits cut in a cloth? I doubt they had any choice as to who their husbands were, and I seriously doubt that their husbands treat them well.
As they say on the Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean ride, "Thar be no turnin' back now!"
There will always be people who are mentally unstable and who develop obsessions.
It's always seemed to me that most organised religions take advantage of these people. Their obsessions tend to make them look pious and therefore prop up those religions in a time when people are leaving the illogical confines of those religions in droves.
FEAR (& the trappings of power) drives people - particularly the young who are unsure of themselves and are desperately looking for something earnest to hook into and be meaningful.......they simply don't realize that they're being used.
Our schools are failing in an attempt to teach kids how to think and how to reason and how recognize bullshit when they see it and hear it.........even from their elders.
I'd rather kids become obsessed with music, art & film than politics, religion & ideologies.
I'd rather kids use kindness as a force for good and critical thinking as an exciting means to self-empowerment and the way to solve problems.