By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent
A mother has told Sky News that her husband abducted their children and took them to Libya because England is "too Western".
In an exclusive interview, Priscilla Micalleff, 30, from Birmingham, told how Jamal Dgham, 35, who she is separated from, took Aisha, four, and 21-month-old Zakaria, abroad, after telling her they were going to the park.
She said: "He said England was too western you know, because they are Muslims, we came here because there are lots of Muslims."
The couple left Ms Micalleff's home country of Malta for "better mosques and schools" in the UK.
But seven weeks ago, without warning, Mr Dgham unlawfully took the children to his home country of Libya.
It is thought they are living with the children's grandmother in the Bin Ashur area of Tripoli.
Ms Micalleff said her husband had sent her a text message warning her that she would not see her children again.
The text read: "From tomorrow u r not gona hear or c the kids anymore and u won't know where they r."
Ms Micalleff has managed to speak to Aisha on the phone.
She said: "Sometimes it's hard, they don't answer the phone they make it hard for me.
"When she comes on the phone she's always crying, she tells me 'mummy I'm scared'."
In tears as she stands in her daughter's bedroom surrounded by her toys, she added: "You feel a very big pain in your heart that you can do nothing to get them back, all kids need their mum.
Family lawyer Pam Sanghera said: "We successfully obtained an order from the High Court that was served on him by email which he has read, but he says he is not going to return the children to UK."
Ms Sanghera, from The Family Firm Solicitors, says it is "inevitable" that the illegal movement of children will become more serious every year.
Latest figures from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office show that the number of children abducted by parents has almost doubled.
A total of 512 cases involving 84 different countries were reported to British authorities in 2011/2012 - up from 272 in 51 countries in 2003/2004.
Ms Sanghera said: "Libya is not a country which is signatory to The Hague Convention, so there's no automatic obligation on Libya to assist with the safe return of the children to the UK.
"The mother is going to have to initiate some sort of proceedings in Libya which may be obtaining a mirror order of the UK order that was made or another type of order which is similar in that it orders the father to return the children to the UK."
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