A Look At How The Islamic State Is Training Children To Be Its Shock Troops

An Isis video apparently depicting children in a training camp in 2015. Photograph: Isis

The Guardian: How Islamic State is training child killers in doctrine of hate

At least 50 UK youngsters are growing up in the Isis ‘caliphate’, where education means watching videos of murders.

A new generation of Isis recruits is being developed in the Islamic State’s “caliphate”, indoctrinated with religious concepts from birth, and viewed by its fighters as better and purer than themselves, according to the first study of the exploitation and abuse of children as a means of securing the group’s future.

Researchers for Quilliam, a London counter-extremism thinktank, have investigated the way Isis recruits children and indoctrinates and trains them for jihad. As many as 50 children from the UK are growing up in Islamic State-controlled territory, with an estimated 30,000 foreign recruits, including more than 800 Britons, believed to have gone to Syria to fight.

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WNU Editor: The Islamic State is learning from history .... the Hitler Youth, the Khmer Rouge's use of child soldiers, Charles Taylor in Liberia, etc.