[Margaret Pilkington]

The religion is not to blame......it is the men who are of that religion, who are to blame.

Somehow it seems that by being muslims they considered themselves to be of better morals/ character than these girls....they saw these girls as worthless - of having no value. Perhaps they didn't see them as women....well, of course they weren't women ...they were children.
I wonder if the fathers among them, had any thought about how they would feel if someone did what they were doing, to their children.