ISIS Recruiting Children in Afghanistan

[Aria2013]

A documentary film aired recently on PBS’s Frontline depicts ISIS recruiting children as young as three years old to become Jihadists. According to the Frontline documentary, ISIS fighters say all local children are educated by the Islamic State from the age of three; a horrifying thought that children as young as three years old are subjected to learn how to kill, how to behead, and how to become suicide bombers when they should be learning math, sciences, history, languages, and other subjects that are beneficial to them. Instead, they are being trained to become suicide bombers and are pawns in the hands of ISIS embedding their ideology into the next generation of children who would be future leaders of their country.



Could recruitment of young children be a sign of the terror group’s weakening status undermining their sphere of influence?



Below is the PBS documentary on ISIS recruiting children well worth watching, and let us know your thoughts.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/fi...n-afghanistan/


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Digital Engagement – USCENTCOM

[Badlun]

If it is true then it is not an indication of the weakness of Islamic State but an evil intelligent strategy to get loyal followers who are completely indoctrinated right from early age and who like blind followers will do whatever their masters tell them.

Solution is economic improvement of the poor Pashtun areas where children do not have to sell their children but instead send them to modern educational and technical institutions. Islamism must be defeated by all means. Because even educated Islamists commit heinous crimes.

[Khostai]

Afghanistan needs cultural revolution and a complete ban on using Islam for political means.