Parents in the UK will be given the power to cancel their children's passports under new moves to stop young British Muslims travelling to join Islamic State terrorists, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
The measure is part of the government's five-year plan as part of their fight against Islamic State terrorists which will target Muslims who hold "intolerant ideas".
In a speech in Birmingham, Mr Cameron warned young British Muslims not to be "brainwashed" by "poisonous ideologies".
He warned young Muslims tempted to join IS that the terrorist organisation did not offer a life of glamour and said: "If you are a boy, they will brainwash you, strap bombs to your body and blow you up.
"If you are a girl, they will enslave and abuse you. That is the sick and brutal reality of Isil."
Mr Cameron said: "Today we're going to introduce a new scheme to enable parents to apply to get their child's passport cancelled, to prevent travel."
The move is a direct response to the number of teenagers being groomed by IS online and travelling to Syria to join the terrorists.
In February three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green academy in East London slipped out of their homes and travelled to Syria without the consent, or knowledge, of their families.
The UK government will unveil a full counter extremism strategy in the autumn which will see new measures introduced to tackle the problem including banning orders for extremist groups and powers to close down buildings in which they operate.
Mr Cameron said there were people born in Britain who did not identify with the country because of "failures of integration".
He said: "So when groups like ISIL seek to rally our young people to their poisonous cause, it can offer them a sense of belonging that they can lack here at home, leaving them more susceptible to radicalism and even violence against other British people to whom they feel no real allegiance.
"This is what we face: a radical ideology that is not just subversive, but can seem exciting, one that has often sucked people in from non-violence to violence, that is overpowering moderate voices within the debate and which can gain traction because of issues of identity and failures of integration."
He described the battle as the "struggle of our generation".
Mr Cameron also:
- Urged internet giants to step up measures to protect against online radicalisation
- Said there should not be "passive tolerance" in communities of female genital mutilation and honour-based violence
- Promised to consult on giving victims of forced marriage lifetime anonymity
- Criticised university leaders for allowing extremist preachers to give speeches on campuses branding it "misguided liberalism"
- Said conspiracy theories on 9/11 and 7/7 should be ridiculed
Security services estimate some 700 British people have travelled out to fight with the IS terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
Mr Cameron continued: "When they say that these are wronged Muslims getting revenge on their Western wrongdoers, let's remind them: from Kosovo to Somalia, countries like Britain have stepped in to save Muslim people from massacres.
"It's groups like Isil, al Qaeda and Boko Haram that are the ones murdering Muslims."
