Revealed - hundreds of desperate British women have proposed marriage to Isis extremists online after EIGHT schoolgirls followed 'jihadi bride trail'

• At least eight schoolgirls have left the UK to join ISIS since last summer
• Three school friends from Bethnal Green Academy left for Syria last week
• Another young girl from the same school travelled to join ISIS in December
• Manchester terror twins Salma and Zahra Halane, 16, were the first British schoolgirls to join the Islamic State
• Later Yusra Hussien, 15, and Samya Dirie, 17, travelled ISIS-held Raqqa
• An Edinburgh-born jihadi bride is thoughy to help recruit young schoolgirls
• Aqsa Mahmoud joined the terror group last year and has been in contact with several young British school girls since her arrival

By Robert Verkaik for MailOnline

Eight British schoolgirls have travelled to Syria in the last seven months using a route which has become known as the 'jihadi bride trail' - and hundreds more besotted British women have proposed marriage to extremists online.

The true figure is likely to be even higher as the police and families have imposed news blackouts in some cases, prompting fears that Britain's anti-terrorism agencies are losing the battle against the radicalisation of young Muslims on the internet.

School friends Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase 15, from Bethnal Green Academy are reported to be in Syria after flying out of Gatwick for Turkey earlier this month. A fourth unnamed girl from the same school went out in December.

Radical websites like Jihad Matchmaker, which offers to arrange marriages between Muslim women and Jihadists, have been blamed for encouraging young, impressionable girls to travel to Syria.

Hundreds of besotted British women have put marriage proposals to jihadists fighting on the front line with Islamic State, according to security sources.

One European fighter in Syria who has become a pin-up jihadi fighter has been bombarded with proposals from women all over the world, desperate to be associated with a 'holy warrior'.

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