article_snippet: her father Muzaffar has denied Aqsa Mahmood
article_snippet: Aqsa Mahmood, 20, left Aqsa Mahmood home in Glasgow in November 2013 and married an IS militant the following February.
article_snippet: Today, Aqsa Mahmood parents told ITV News Aqsa Mahmood had been in contact with them her parents to deny recent reports that Aqsa Mahmood had encouraged Bethnal Green Academy students Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16 and Amira Abase, 15, to join the radical Islamist group.
article_snippet: The father of jihadi bride Aqsa Mahmood (pictured left and right) denies Aqsa Mahmood was involved in recruiting three London schoolgirls believed to have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State .
article_snippet: Aqsa Mahmood said Aqsa Mahmood daughter had claimed his daughter didn't even know the names of the girls, and Aqsa Mahmood added that Aqsa Mahmood believed his daughter. '
article_snippet: his daughter texted when this was going on,' Aqsa Mahmood said. '
article_snippet: A lot of press - everything happening is Aqsa Mahmood.'
article_snippet: But after the girls went missing last month, the girls emerged that Shamima had messaged a Twitter account belonging to Aqsa Mahmood asking Aqsa Mahmood to follow Aqsa Mahmood.
article_snippet: Aqsa Mahmood did so, opening a private line of communication.
article_snippet: Aqsa Mahmood said his daughter had contacted the family to insist his daughter didn't know the names of the missing London schoolgirls, and Aqsa Mahmood said Aqsa Mahmood believed his daughter .
article_snippet: Aqsa's mother Khalida Mahmood also called for Aqsa's mother Khalida Mahmood to leave Syria and return to Britain .
article_snippet: Shamima Begum, 15, sent an open message (pictured) to Aqsa Mahmood, 20, who had fled to Syria from Glasgow to be a 'jihadi bride' in 2013, asking his daughter to open a private line of communication .
article_snippet: But today, Aqsa Mahmood said: 'They are making his daughter…everything happening is Aqsa Mahmood. '
article_snippet: his daughter was very angry with Aqsa Mahmood that 'why are you not standing up for Aqsa Mahmood?
article_snippet: Mahmood has also posted a series of blog posts entitled 'Diary of a Muhajirah' instructing young women on how to prepare for life in Syria and what to do expect there.
article_snippet: Bethnal Green Academy student Shamima Begum, 15, sent an open message to Aqsa Mahmood, 20, who had fled to Syria from Glasgow to be a 'jihadi bride' in 2013, asking her to open a private line of communication.
article_snippet: However the Security Services have serious questions to answer- Aqsa's social media has been monitored since a lawyer for Mahmood's family disappeared over a year ago, yet despite alleged contact between the girls and Aqsa, the girls and Aqsa failed to stop alleged contact between the girls and Aqsa from leaving the UK to Turkey a staging post for Syria.
highlights_snippet: Aqsa Mahmood left Glasgow in November 2013 and married an IS militant .
  
highlights_snippet: But Aqsa Mahmood father Muzaffar says Aqsa Mahmood contacted family to deny any involvement .
  
highlights_snippet: her father Muzaffar said Aqsa Mahmood contacted family to insist Aqsa Mahmood 'was never in contact with family'
  
highlights_snippet: But one of the girls contacted Aqsa Mahmood asking for private communication .