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Islamic State: Children study Qur’an, get weapons training

Mar 2, 2015 5:58 am By Robert Spencer

isis-releases-new-video-children-jihadis-camp-where-cubs-are-trainedThey study the Qur’an? Do they skip over all of its peaceful passages upon which Barack Obama, David Cameron and the rest place such hope? Or are those leaders engaging in wishful thinking on a massive scale when they insist that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam?

“Isis pays parents for children to attend jihadist ‘cub’ camps,” by Tom Porter, International Business Times, February 28, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Parents are sending their children to be trained in Islamic State camps in exchange for money, food and clothing.

With resources expensive in the self-proclaimed Caliphate’s Syrian capital Raqqa, activists reported that the recruitment of children by the extremist was widespread, with three training camps set up near the city where children are indoctrinated and trained in fighting techniques.

The al-Khalifa Cubs Institute and the al-Farouk Cubs Institute in Raqqa, and the Sharia Camp for Cubs in the nearby city of al-Tabqa, take boys for 40 days and indoctrinate them to become jihadists, said campaign group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.

“People are forced to submit their children to these camps where they are paid money in exchange for their children’s attendance,” the group’s founder Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi told the Times.

Parents are given $200 for their children to attend, where they attend Koran classes, and given weapons and martial arts training.

Those who do not allow their children to attend the mosques must send them to mosques to study the Koran, where it is believed they are indoctrinated to join the camps.

This week Isis released a video of children as young as five training in the al-Farouk Cubs camp.
The video shows the children dressed in camouflage fatigues and wearing headbands inscribed with Isis insignia engaging in group exercises while instructed by militants and praying together.

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  1. Aardvark says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 6:42 am

    I’m quite sure that the koranic studies these children are given are indistinguishable from the studies given to children in mosques in the civilized West…

  2. Caveman says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 7:42 am

    I’m quite sure that the koranic studies these children are given will prepare them very well for the coming years. Weapons and martial arts training are of course all they will ever need to become members of a successfull society. It is funy how everything they need to fight is developed and invented and produced in the developed “kuffar” world they so greatly despise. Their weapon of choice; AK47 first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov an (gasp!) atheist (is that a double “kuffar”?). I hope using all those “kuffar” things doesn’t rub off on them.

    • DeusLoVult says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 9:42 pm

      Mikhail Kalashnikov was an Orthodox Christian, not an atheist.

      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25709371

      Of course, that only increases the irony.

      • voegelinian says

        Mar 3, 2015 at 3:13 pm

        Only a modern sectarian Christian derived out of the Reformation nebula would imply that a Christian can’t contribute to weapons technology.

        • DeusLoVult says

          Mar 3, 2015 at 3:43 pm

          I never intended to imply any such thing. Nor am I a “modern sectarian Christian”. I am much more in line with the with the thinking of Urban II and Gregory VII. All I was pointing out was Caveman’s mistake in calling Kalashnikov an atheist. I don’t know how you could have reached that conclusion from what I stated.

  3. Matthieu Baudin says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 7:52 am

    “…are those [world] leaders engaging in wishful thinking on a massive scale when they insist that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam?”

    After the twin towers were flattened the President at that time, George W. Bush, declared that the U.S. was not at war with Islam. Why? Was it ignorance of Islam, the fact that the potential number of foe was too large, the reliance on crude oil flowing from Islamic countries, a naiveté about the common ground of mono-theistic religions? If the towers had been destroyed by a small cult, for instance the Japanese ‘Om Supreme Truth’ would its religious identity have been sidestepped?
    The problem with the current intransigence, over the religious dimension of aggression mounted in the name of Jihad, is that it has taken on an ‘all or nothing’ dimension. The denial of religiously motivated aggression is total, so that the important job of taking apart and understanding the current violence is not undertaken. How can we have any useful discussion of the current crisis if religiously motivated aggression is off the table?

    • Michael Copeland says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 9:13 am

      See “The duping of Cameron” for the duping of Bush:
      http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6720-the-duping-of-cameron

      • Matthieu Baudin says

        Mar 2, 2015 at 9:04 pm

        Thanks Michael, I’ve taken a look at the article via the link you kindly provided.
        So it looks like they tapped into G.W.Bush’s Sunday School mentality of reverence and objectivity immediately took a back seat. Now, almost fifteen years later everyone’s still expected to show deference to ‘Unicorn Islam’, the pure and essential Islam untainted by the unrelenting violent rhetoric of the Koran. We’re wallowing in a tide of madness that’s washed onto our shores from the middle east.

        • voegelinian says

          Mar 3, 2015 at 3:14 pm

          Bush has been unremarkably deformed by the neo-Wilsonianism of PC MC, as have millions of other Westerners.

  4. James Phillips says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 8:05 am

    Hitler Youth, anyone?

    • No Fear says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 3:06 pm

      You can bet the goal is to make the whole country ‘judenrein’.

    • voegelinian says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 3:15 pm

      Yep.

      http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/5_07_1.jpg

      • voegelinian says

        Mar 3, 2015 at 3:23 pm

        For more on the Hitler/Islam connection, see my older essay on my blog (particularly the links I provide):

        http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2008/10/hitler-and-islam_28.html

        In that essay, I relay what Andrew Bostom reported, that even in the 1920s, Hitler had already had meetings with influential Muslims, including a Muslim activist from India, Al-Mashriqi,

        Al-Mashriqi among other things wrote a book called Tazkira which, as Bostom describes it, “produced a quintessential message of Islam enshrining the ideals of militaristic nation-building”—i.e., it promulgated and highlighted the supremacist expansionism through militant means that is essential to Islamic doctrine and Islamic history.

        What is startlingly noteworthy about this is revealed in al-Mashriqi’s own account of his meeting with Hitler in 1926:

        “I was astounded when he [Hitler] told me that he knew about my Tazkirah. The news flabbergasted me. . . I found him very congenial and piercing. He discussed Islamic Jihad with me in details. In 1930 I sent him my Isharat concerning the Khaksar movement with a picture of a spade-bearer Khaksar at the end of that book. In 1933 he started his Spade Movement. ”

        The “Spade Movement” in Nazi Germany (Reichsarbeitsdienst) was a kind of public works program employing thousands of “volunteers” that not only assisted in infrastructure but also the war effort.

  5. mortimer says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 9:19 am

    Child abuse of the worst kind. We need to save these precious children so they don’t grow up to be traumatized sociopaths.

    • L.H.Stockie says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 2:15 pm

      Child abuse,sound just like what a liberal would say, muslims have been teaching their childern the art of killing infidels for thousands of years. in the usa we use to teach our childern the art of self protection via the correct use of firearms, from the 1800s to the 1950s many schools and clubs like the boy scouts tought proper use of firearms, many kids today do not know which end of the rifle the bullet comes out, thanks to the liberals and the sissifying of our childern, hell,today many kids don:t even know if they are a boy,girl, trangender, or a freak, thanks again to the liberals,one thing for sure the islam army of locasts will be on your doorstep and if your depending on someone else to protect you , your in for a shock,

  6. Angemon says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 10:37 am

    People are forced to submit their children to these camps where they are paid money in exchange for their children’s attendance,” the group’s founder Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi told the Times.

    Are all of them “forced”?

  7. Jay Boo says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 11:26 am

    “Freud taught that sexual repression was the chief psychological problem of mankind.
    He surmised that repression and constriction of sexual behavior in youth would become manifest in adulthood.”
    Referenced from http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/biography-sigmund-freud/597.aspx

  8. jayell says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 11:41 am

    This is starting to look more and more like the Third Reich every day, except that the Third Reich had a (thin) veneer of civility about it. This lot clearly can’t even manage that. They’re just a load of antediluvian Islamic criminal thugs. Their psychopathic ‘Prophet’ would be proud of them.

  9. Jeff says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 2:08 pm

    These children can no longer be considered civilians. When they are killed it will not be collateral damage.

  10. Ricky Black says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    If you tell a muslim boy over and over again that he is ( better than his sister), ( better then the disbelievers) ( better than everybody else)… well when he grows up a realizes that is NOT TRUE, that has a profound affect on a human being. You will get hyper sensitivity, denial of any wrong doing on his part, and most of all you will get hatred for everybody else.

  11. Charli Main says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    ” Baroness” Wazi and the Muslim Council of Britain have probably started to work on Britain´s Muslim arse kisser in chief, David Cameron, to open Dhimini training schools for British children.
    Non- Muslim children can be trained to respect their Muslim masters and show the respect demanded by Allah´s master race.

    • pumbar says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 1:28 am

      Sounds like most secondary schools we have already.

  12. Gary says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:39 pm

    Sadly… these young men are not being told the truth about God. The true Living God.

    Isaiah57:15

    For thus says the High and Lofty One
    Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
    ” I dwell in the high and holy place,
    With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
    To revive the spirit of the humble,
    And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

    No, these boys are being fed a lie…..

    allah, (The moon god of the Koran), the idol god, is nothing more than a front for the father of lies. Satan – Who comes to rob, steal, kill, and destroy. (John 10:10)

    Sadly, history is being repeated. Hitler did the same thing with youth…… Brainwash/rinse/repeat

  13. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:56 pm

    It’s totality unconscionable for these fiends of ISIS to thoroughly brainwash those boys to use them as tools for the jihad. This is child exportation and abuse to the extreme. The evil of the villains of ISIS know know limit. That the callous characters of ISIS are very wicked has been proven to be a truth of reality that the ISIS thugs have proven time and time again by their own heinous and hideous actions. As shown in this above article. Indeed they must be stopped !

    • L.H.Stockie says

      Mar 3, 2015 at 12:04 pm

      While Islam is brainwasing there childern in the art of effective use of weapons and the art of killing by beheading infidells,,our childern are being brainwashed in our schools that sally has two daddys and jimmy has two mommys, the sissifying of our young childern has gone on too long, thanks to the weak minded brain dead liberals,THINKING THEMSELVES WISE THEY BECAME FOOLS….

  14. Champ says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    Whoa!

    “King of Jordan wants to wage ‘WW3’ on ISIS”

    http://rt.com/news/236837-jordan-king-abdullah-isis/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

  15. Mirren10 says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    ”The al-Khalifa Cubs Institute and the al-Farouk Cubs Institute in Raqqa, and the Sharia Camp for Cubs in the nearby city of al-Tabqa, take boys for 40 days and indoctrinate them to become jihadists, said campaign group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”

    Not quite Akela we’ll dob, dob, dob, is it ?

  16. Jenny says

    Mar 4, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    Doesn’t anyone remember the Hitler Youth Corps? Since the Arabs sided with Hitler during WWII, they are obviously taking many pages out of Hitler’s rule book.

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