ISIS fighters tells families “hand over your daughters for sex” after orders from cleric’s fatwa

Members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces take positions during a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and explosives and weapons, in a neighbourhood in Ramadi
ISIS fighters are ordering terrified families in Iraq to hand over their daughters for sex.

Leaflets in the captured cities of Mosul and Tikrit claim the women – virgins or not – must join jihad, or Holy war, and cleanse themselves by sleeping with militants.

Those that refuse to do so are violating God’s will, it is claimed, and will be beaten or killed.

ISIS fighters have been taking women captive in Syria since last year when a Saudi-based cleric issued a fatwa – religious order telling them to. Now the sick practise is happening to Iraq.

US President Barack Obama has offered to send military advisers but not air strikes. Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith said Britain would “support the Americans”.

Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei opposed US action claiming they would put “yes men” in power.