
The teenage girls who abandoned their families in Austria to become jihadis for Daesh feel they have made a terrible mistake by joining the barbaric lifestyle and they want to come home, the New York Post reported on Friday.
Samra Kesinovic, 17, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, are believed to be married, pregnant and living in Daesh-controled city of Raqqa in northern Syria.
Dubbed by Austrian media as the poster girls for jihad, the young friends now believe their lives have been turned upside down by their new lifestyles.
The change of heart is a much different tune than the note they left behind for their parents when they fled back in April, which read: "Don’t look for us. We will serve Allah and we will die for him".
Kesinovic and Selimovic grew up in Vienna, where they became accustomed to talking to whomever they wanted, saying whatever they pleased and wearing whatever clothes they liked. They did not have to live a life being controlled by people telling them what they can and cannot do.
The two girls decided to leave all that behind and shack up with the same people they have now grown to hate.
For weeks, social media accounts believed to belong to the girls have been posting pictures and information leading many to feel they enjoyed living a life of terror.
Authorities in Austria say this was all an elaborate plan set up by Daesh in order to get people to think the two wanted to be the poster girls for jihad in Syria.
Now Austrian media are reporting that Kesinovic and Selimovic have said enough is enough and want to return to their families.
They have contacted their loved ones and told them they are sick of living with Daesh jihadis, but they also said they do not feel they can flee from their unwanted new life because too many people now associate them with Daesh.
"The main problem is about people coming back to Austria", said Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck. "Once they leave, it is almost impossible".
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