The learned analysts quoted in this Newsweek article (not reproduced below) are sure that this is a sign that the Islamic State is on the wane, and can no longer attract adults the way it did before — since only 120 new adult jihadis joined the group between January 1 and March 23. These analysts are likely to be wrong in this assessment, as they do not understand and have not considered the power of the concept of the caliphate.
“ISIS Recruit 400 Children for ‘Cubs of Caliphate,'” by Conor Gaffey, Newsweek, March 24, 2015:
At least 400 children have joined ISIS’s ranks in Syria since the start of this year for use in combat roles, espionage and propaganda, according to monitors.
Offices for “Ashbal al-Khilafah” (“Cubs of the Caliphate”) were opened in several IS-held Syrian cities, according to London-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Minors are indoctrinated through sharia courses and prepared for combat in military training camps. The SOHR also said that children were encouraged to attend public executions and were offered weapons and cash to join the organisation….
A video released earlier this month showed a French child aged around 12 years old executing Arab-Israeli citizen Muhammad Musallam, whom ISIS accused of being a Mossad spy. The group also invited young boys to watch a screening of the execution of Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Kasasbeh, who was locked in a cage before being burnt alive.
Online tactics used by the group to recruit young girls have been compared to those used by paedophiles grooming young children….
The SOHR also reported that at least 120 new adult jihadis joined the terrorist group between January 1 and March 23 in what it said was the lowest period of recruitment since the group declared a caliphate on June 28, 2014….
Jay Boo says
Hey mom,
Please send my comic books and a case of Vaseline lotion.
The adult jihadis have run out of pre-pubescence girls and are now ogling me with glassy-eyed stares.
Anna says
And mom by the way. While we are on the subject as we don’t know what those evil Islamophobes might say about our youthful holy recruitment, we are NOT, I repeat NOT copying NAZI’s in any way shape or form. Nazi’s didn’t ogle little boys or cut out little girls private parts then rape them as a policy, or behead, or believe in a heavenly brothel for ” martyrs”
. So, just in case anyone would dare to suggest such a thing…
Anna says
Well apart of course, silly us, from our shared Jew hatred….only thing we have in common with Nazi’s , and Hitler really got that from US heheee, but shuuush do not tell !
Ephesian says
Cubs? Methinks they have been watching too much Lion King,threaten to cut their benefits and they have an attack of the vapours……cubs my a–e.
Mo says
This is truly child abuse of the most wicked sort. Christ had some harsh things to say about those who corrupt innocent children. Luke 17:2 comes to mind:
“It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.”
I would not want to be the perpetrators of this evil come Judgment Day.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The cubs, we might think of them as micro mujahidins, will grow up in a different world than the Founding Fathers of the New Caliphate, including Mr. al-Baghdadi himself. War coward turncoat John Kerry (Yale Man) is in Switzerland today trying to put the close down on the nuke “deal” with the Persians. So the cubs, the micros, will grow up in a Middle East in which most nations are armed to the teeth with tactical and even strategic missile platforms that carry nuclear warheads. Depending on the Dar al-Islam country’s budget, the warheads could be MIRV, but might be just singleton warheads.
The world is alight with Global Jihad nowadays, full of beheadings and threats and open calls to Allah and the Holy Ko-Ran. Well, it’s about to get even worse.
JeffS says
I wouldn’t have enrolled my kid in summer camp if I’d known about this option.
gravenimage says
Oh my God! This is such a grim story, but your comment had me cracking up. Thanks for the moment of levity, Jeff.
Jan says
They’re too disunited to establish anything like the caliphate of the past. Just last week they were bombing a mosque, after all. Muslims, their own people.
They can sure cause a lot of trouble trying to, though. I think the article is right that their power is on the wane, but their crimes, unfortunately, are not.
David says
Didn’t Saddam Hussein launch a large mass of child soldiers against an enemy army some decades ago?
gravenimage says
Close, David. When Saddam Hussein attacked Iran in the 1980s, they Mullahs decided that since Iran was less technologically advanced but had a higher population that they would just use their people as cannon fodder.
The most horrifying aspect of this was the use of children as young as twelve. They were used for such things as charging unarmed at Iraqi tanks. Even the Iraqis were horrified, and that’s saying a lot.
Another common use for these little boys was to use them to clear minefields. The kids would hold hands and just start walking. In most cases the only “protection” these kids would have is that they were provided with cheap plastic keys made in China that were spray-painted gold. The children were told that these were the “keys to paradise’ and that they would go straight to heaven if they were killed—which they were, in the hundreds of thousands.
God, I hate Islam.
Buraq says
400 cubs of the Caliphate.
Last throw of the dice. End is near. Clowns!
Walter Sieruk says
This is child abuse and exploitation to the extreme. To brainwash and use those children as tools for the jihad is totality unconscionable. The thugs are ISIS are indeed fiends. That the ISIS villains are so thoroughly wicked, callous ,ruthless as well as terrible and awful is explained ,somewhat, in the Bible. For the Bible teaches the there are some people who are so very ruthless, unfeeling,heinous and hideous because they have had their “conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [K.J.V.] The “hot iron” in this case is Islam.
gravenimage says
Close, David. When Saddam Hussein attacked Iran in the 1980s, they Mullahs decided that since Iran was less technologically advanced but had a higher population that they would just use their people as cannon fodder.
The most horrifying aspect of this was the use of children as young as twelve. They were used for such things as charging unarmed at Iraqi tanks. Even the Iraqis were horrified, and that’s saying a lot.
Another common use for these little boys was to use them to clear minefields. The children would hold hands and just start walking. In most cases the only “protection” these kids would have is that they were provided with cheap plastic keys made in China that were spray-painted gold. The children were told that these were the “keys to paradise’ and that they would go straight to heaven if they were killed—which they were, in the hundreds of thousands.
God, I hate Islam.
gravenimage says
Not sure why this posted twice.
David says
It is a good post and deserves to be posted twice.
gravenimage says
You are too kind, David.
Dan says
The talk of camp reminds me of that old classic, Hello Mother, Hello Father.
Hello Mullah, hello faddah
Here I am at, Camp Fatwahda
Camp is very. entertaining
And they say we’ll have some fun if bombs stop raining.
I just did jihad, with Joe Needle
Til he got called, in-fah-deedle
By Alachmed, bomb vest maker
Last night he crossed a wire and blew up at dinner.
All the Sunnies, hate the Shiytes.
So they play with, dyna-mee-yte
And the Imam, wants no sissies
So he reads from the Koran and beats the Missus.
Now I don’t want, this should scare ya
But my bunkmates commit terrah
You remember, Jeffrey Hardy
Well his head is now just less his former body
Take me home oh Mullah, fadduh
Let me go I hate Fatwhada
Don’t leave me out in the sand.
To get beaten by the Imams
Send me home, I swear I did not do or see
Things of interest to the authorities
Oh, please don’t make me stay
I’ve been here one
Whole
Day.
David says
Brilliant!
gravenimage says
Bloody brilliant—and I mean “bloody” in both sense of the word!
duh_swami says
How old is an adult Mahoundian? In the west, the law sets an age 18-21, but it seems Islam considers adulthood as soon as a baby can walk or talk. There doesn’t seem to be an dividing line between toddler and old adult.
I might have missed it but does the Quran give a magical marker of adulthood? Exactly when does a child morph into an adult?
gravenimage says
There is no universal standard in Dar-al-Islam, Swami, but Iran, for instance, considers boys of 15 and girls of 9 to be adults in that they can be charged with capital crimes—or married off, in the case of girls.
There is no question that while most of the rest of the world has spent the last several centuries establishing a protected childhood, that Islam both treats small children as adults in grotesquely inappropriate and harmful ways, while actual adults function at an irrational level that you would not find in most Western children.
Actually, these two factors should not surprise—really, they go together.
Joe Shmo says
Many devout Muslim never seem to grow into adults. They seem to me remain like damaged children all their lives who resemble and behave like school bullies: hypersensitive, prone to violence and abuse, blaming everyone else for their own faults, ignoring their own culpability, convinced of their own specialness yet deeply insecure. The religion is a curse for everyone.
More Ham Ed says
How true. Meanwhile the peace-nik left and the media provides daily whitewashing, PR, excuses, downplaying, apologetics, cover, praise, lies, ignorance and more for Islam.
Dave J says
Notice how many of the imams, jihadists (and their apologists) look and sound like overgrown children with their scruffy little beards and whiny voices. The many prohibitions of Islam against science, music, fun or free thought serve to keep them in an adolescent state of anticipation, with their “real” rewards postponed until after their glorious martyrdom.
The simplistic savagery of Satan.
BC says
The IS leaders know what they are doing recruiting impressionable youngsters. The Hitler Youth Units sent into battle at the end of WW2. Very few of them were captured alive as they fought to the last bullet.
Adults often have the sense understand what they have got themselves into or to surrender when things look hopeless but these brainwashed young cubs will be happy to die as suicide bombers etc.
JamesonRocks says
Another income source for ISIS… Perhaps they’ll have yearly cookie sales. I can see it now… Peanut Butter Stones – A cookie made to look like a stone. Mecca Mints – A chocolate covered cube cookie. Beheaded Butter Cookies – Made to look like a severed head. I trust the possibilities are endless!
Oliver says
What are the ages? 12- which is mentioned-in my opinion- not quite a child; old enough to know (if taught) right from wrong; and know what he or she is doing.
If they don’t get killed (quickly) they will grow to be adult terrorists, hating Jews, Americans, and the other types of Muslims.
Did these ‘ children’ volunteer? or, were they put into this by their parents? if they volunteered, i have no qualms if they get killed quickly. if they were put into it by their parents- their parents are sick bastards. Remember, Nasser in Egypt, and later Saddam Hussein, used to go to poor villages (in their respective countries) and give parents money for children to sue to go and bomb Israel. And in iran 9 when Persia, centuries ago) the same was done.
Terrorists all.
The “children’ watched the burning of the Jordanian. One executed an Israeli-Arab. And they stayed. They are as bad-in my view- as the rest of the ISIS and the other terrorists groups.
My opinions; probably unpopular,as i am not showing sympathy
jay says
We should send them bus fulls of ‘inner city youths’ like they did to the school I grew up in and it will be turned into a cracked out ghetto in a year. Add some section 8 housing for their extended families and Detroit will look like a good deal in comparison. There are really simple solutions to some of these problems.
Oliver says
Jay,
I agree; and we should ALSO copy Fidel Castro- with (in his case) The Mariel boatlift– he emptied out his prisons and mental institutions and their inmates ( AND THEIR FAMILEIS) to Miami (Fl).
We should do the same. Save a bunch of money.
(And, we can also send them Obama; and all other liberal turds)
Ramon says
God, I hate Islam….! as one commenter always closes all his comments…
Amen!