ISIS KIDS VICTIMS OF THEIR PARENTS

ONE can only wonder about the mental capacity of the sort of parent who would choose to take their children from a country like Australia to join up with the evil ISIS cult in war-ravaged Syria.

Clearly such people, such as Sydney fanatic Khaled Sharrouff, are the very embodiment of evil.

The capacity of these murderous lunatics to shock has no bounds.

However the manner in which they have poisoned the minds of their own young children marks yet another low.

Unlike their unhinged parents, who represent the dog-dirt on the soles of humanity, these kids can be considered nothing but innocent.

They have no real sense of what it is their parents are asking them to do when they appear in sick propaganda videos.

In fact, they themselves are among the greatest victims of the ISIS curse.

They have been robbed of the possibility of growing up in this wonderful country of ours to instead be transported to the foul graveyard that is the Syrian war zone.

Justice Minister Michael Keenan is absolutely correct to say that such children should be treated as the victims of child abuse in the sadly unlikely event that they can ever be rescued from their present hell and returned safely to Australia.

It was once famously said of the Duke of Wellington, “Being born in a stable does not make a man a horse”.

Similarly, although these children live amongst evil, it does not automatically follow that they themselves should be devils.

Far more likely is that if they were exposed to a more normal, loving upbringing of a sort alien to their vile parents, they would thrive and flourish like so many other Australian children, and grow up to become valued members of society.

The family of Sharrouf’s wife, Tara Nettleton, has been trying to rescue the couple’s five children from Syria.

We can only wish them well in that immensely difficult task.

If the family do succeed, it is only right and proper that the children are re-admitted to Australia and given the sort of help outlined by Mr Keenan.

Successfully doing so would be the greatest possible way to respond to the vile videos spouting forth from the likes of Sharrouf.