ISIS Training Children For Next Generation Of Terror

By PNW Staff August 04, 2016

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Children under the tyrannical rule of ISIS are being brainwashed and desensitized potentially to create a next generation of terrorists. The extremist group continues to swell its ranks with these youngsters by indoctrinating them into a world of hatred and violence in hopes of spreading aggression long after Iraqi and Syrian government forces topple their regime.  They are cultivating a culture of death.

As early as 2014, disturbing incidents of ISIS abducting children have been reported.

Saeed Mamouzini, a Kurdish official, said that 127 children between the ages of 11 and 15 years old had been kidnapped and that ""these children have entered in special camps to be trained on the use of weapons and implementation of terrorist operations."

The Jerusalem Post reported that ISIS had put greater emphasis on recruiting children because ground forces backed by U.S.-led bombings stymied the willingness of grown men to join the fanatical conflict. 

More than 400 children from Syria have been recruited and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that they were all less than 18 years of age.

Whenever ISIS has taken control of a town, its brutal methodology has been to execute older men, force the females into sex slavery and intimidate young boys into joining "Cubs for the Caliphate" to be trained as Islamic State's future fighters. 

Once in the grip of ISIS, children have their innocence and character stripped away while being force-fed the extremists' hard-line ideology. 

Books for primary education are discarded and the pupils have only a Qur'an accompanied by instructional lessons about how to commit acts of terrorism including bomb making, beheading infidels and suicide attacks. The Cubs are given desensitization homework, such as bringing home Caucasian dolls dressed in orange jumpsuits to practice decapitation.

Chechen ISIS leader Omar al-Shishani has been prominently featured in propaganda training videos showing boys between the ages of 5 and 7 years old dressed in camouflage chanting songs and aiming guns. 

One video shows 10-year-olds dressed in black with the Islamic State flag displayed, enduring punches and kicks from their adult "instructors," according to Newsweek. Once ISIS has destroyed the boys' moral compass, they encourage and force them to participate in crimes against humanity.

The Islamic State radicals boast about the executions of civilians, foreign aid workers and reporters in videos and have included children as participants in actual murders.

One child is featured in such a video shooting an Israeli Arab who was accused of being a spy, according to The Jerusalem Post. French authorities believe the boy could be the half-brother of Mohamed Merah, a young man who murdered a rabbi and three Jewish children in Toulouse, France.

Another video shows Isa Dare, the son of a London woman, blowing up a vehicle with three prisoners in it while wearing military clothing and an ISIS headband. The boy, who was taken to Syria as a baby four years before the incident, shouts "We will kill kuffars (infidels) over there." It's commonplace for the terror organization to use children as suicide bombers and executioners.

As Iraqi and Syrian ground forces dismantle ISIS territorial hold on the civilian population, these Caliphate Cubs pose an entirely new terror threat to countries abroad, particularly the EU. Many of these children will likely turn West and be sheltered as refugees. 

Some fear this is already happening as European governments admit they are losing track of significant numbers of children who have entered the continent as refugees without their parents. 

In 2015, 88,245 unaccompanied children--91% of them boys--sought asylum in the European Union, and officials estimate that there are as many as 10,000 missing migrant children. Those who have not already been indoctrinated by ISIS may find they have escaped war-torn conflict areas of the Middle East only to find they are now targeted by ISIS recruiters on European soil as well.

According to Nikita Malik, a senior researcher at the Quilliam Foundation, "They are an immediate threat and will become a much longer-term one as they get older and become even more capable of greater acts of terror and support to ISIS. Their educational indoctrination breeds hatred against the West and calls all other states illegitimate -- these children will have no access to or memory of any other ideas."

And, a report on terrorism in the European Union conducted by Europol points to these children as a "particular concern."

The eradication of ISIS as a geographical entity will only expand as its jihadists, adult and child, proliferate globally. Malik points out that no government has a significant strategy in place to deal with these children's mental and moral rehabilitation despite the fact that many countries have a legal responsibility to them. 

This radicalized next generation of militants could very well be an end game of the Islamic State.