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Australia: 10 school-age children in government-run jihad rehab

Aug 31, 2015 3:04 pm By Robert Spencer

It is hard to imagine what form this would take, although it is likely that whoever runs it sold it to the Australian government as an endeavor designed to teach these young Muslims the true, peaceful Islam, as opposed to the twisted, hijacked jihadi version. But since the Qur’an and Sunnah do contain material that exhorts believers to wage war against and subjugate Infidels, it does seem foredoomed.

Islamic State child

“Jihad rehabilitation for up to 10 school-aged children,” by Daniel Meers, The Daily Telegraph, August 31, 2015:

UP to 10 school-aged children who were considering going to war as death cult jihadists are now undergoing government deradicalisation programs.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said the situation was alarming but would not divulge ages of the students or reveal where they were from.

“What worries me as a parent but also as a police commissioner is children who are school aged making decisions they are just ill-equipped to make,” he said.

“We’ve considered 10 school-aged children at this stage for programs in the community to work with them to say this is not a good choice you’re about to make or this is a bad plan you had and we will continue to do that.”

It’s understood some of the students are from Sydney.

The revelations came just a week after it emerged 336 wannabe terrorists were intercepted at Australian international airports before they could leave the country in just 312 days during last financial year. It followed five men being taken off planes at Sydney Airport on August 12, in the biggest single interception in Australia. Each had about $10,000 in their luggage.

A further two men, linked to the group of five, were intercepted a week later.

Mr Colvin, whose crack team of counter-terrorism officers have foiled multiple plots over the last year, conceded it was difficult getting to school students before the sophisticated Islamic State propaganda team corrupted them online.

“We’re very concerned about the youth in our community who seem to be particularly vulnerable to these messages that are coming out of ISIL and out of the Middle East,’’ he said.

“It is very difficult for law enforcement to try to get ahead of that and try and stop the radicalisation (of young people) from occurring.”…

The government’s stand couldn’t be firmer, with Mr Abbott declaring: “If you go to Syria or Iraq to fight with a terrorist army, you are committing the modern form of treason.”

Indeed so.

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  1. ECAW says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    Here’s your deprogramming program Mortimer. Let’s hope the authorities keep good enough records to ascertain whether the idea is a runner or not.

    Somehow I have a feeling the results will be fudged so that nothing definitive is established.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 31, 2015 at 5:37 pm

      This is a spoof, right?

      • ECAW says

        Sep 1, 2015 at 4:21 am

        No, not at all. I would like to see your theory put to the test, as I’m sure you would.

  2. Peggy says

    Aug 31, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    Does anyone want to know how they got all that money? Where are their parents and how come the parents aren’t able to stop them?
    What program could possibly work when they are living with their obviously radical family and go to mosques when they learn about true Islam.
    Are they really going to listen to authorities and ignore thier family and mosques?
    Which idiot thought of this?

  3. sidney penny says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 1:06 am

    “The revelations came just a week after it emerged 336 wannabe terrorists were intercepted at Australian international airports before they could leave the country in just 312 days during last financial year.”

    Left in Australia to continue their jihad in Australia

  4. sidney penny says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 1:09 am

    “The revelations came just a week after it emerged 336 wannabe terrorists were intercepted at Australian international airports before they could leave the country in just 312 days during last financial year.”

    How can the Police be sure that they are going to Iraq or Syria?

    If there are why not let them go and not come back by cancelling their passports.

    “Mr Colvin, whose crack team of counter-terrorism officers have foiled multiple plots over the last year”

    but they still do not know about Jihad or Islam

  5. BW022 says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 2:00 am

    School aged? How old… 7, 10, or 17… big difference.

    And how are they going to do this? What is the program? Who designed the program? What text books are being used? What are the lesson plans, learning outcomes, tests, etc.? How have these been tested and how do they measure the success rate of the program? How many months/years does it take to reach these learning outcomes? What if the students refuse to participate? Or just pretend to?

    This isn’t something like calculus where the knowledge of to pass the test is itself the information you need to impart. This is trying to change beliefs.

    How do they know that the children have such beliefs in the first place? How do they know they are rid of such beliefs as opposed to just saying they don’t? Is there any history of this every working?

    Will the program ban them from people who might ‘re-indoctrinate’ them? How will the program determine this or are they wards of the state until 18? What happens after that? And if they have identified where they got these bad ideas in the first place… what are they doing to stop them at their source?

    Finally… has any government anywhere ever used any similar program on any group of children? Does the government identify children as potential rapists, thieves, robbers, etc. take them away from parents into special “anti-crime” programs? Do these work?

    • ECAW says

      Sep 1, 2015 at 4:35 am

      All important points to be taken into account when designing the programme. If done properly a lot could be learned. Either it works and it can be rolled out everywhere or it turns out to be a dead duck in which case we can stop wasting our time and hopes, and reconcile ourselves to facing not misguided teenagers but implacable enemies.

      I don’t think it will be done in such a useful way. All the social scientists who could bring their (rather limited) expertise to the project will be too busy shouting “Islamophobia” and “Discrimination” etc.

      Apart from that, the authorities won’t want to risk being made to look like naive fools being taken for a ride and those (presumably moderate imams etc) who design and implement the programme won’t want to risk not being able to come back for more money for repeats.

  6. Infidave says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 6:06 am

    The time will come when there will be too many to watch and all resources to prevent terror attacks will be exhausted. Then and only then will the appeasing idiots who organize this rubbish realize what they are doing to our country.
    Any program that involves a lying, inbred, brainwashed muslim in its framework is doomed to failure. They will be taught how to hide their true feelings from public, drop off the radar then commit a “lone wolf” attack that will have “nothing to do with islam” and “he has not been seen at this mosque” excuses flying around. Excuses that one would think can only hold up for so long but at this stage they are doing quite well thank you very much.
    All the people that matter believe it.
    They believe islam is a religion of peace.
    Even though islam is responsible for death and destruction in almost every corner of the globe people still convince themselves islam is not really to blame.

  7. Undaunted says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 7:06 am

    School-age children? Jihad? I know about that…

    My latest on this 11th anniversary of Beslan: http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2015/09/here-we-go-again.html

  8. Mirren10 says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 7:30 am

    What dangerous and worthless nonsense this is.

    These ‘children’ aren’t being ‘radicalised on line’. They’re listening to what the koran, the imams, mullahs, their mosks and their parents tell them.

    A big fat waste of time and money. The West falling for the muslim crap, as usual.

    • Peggy says

      Sep 1, 2015 at 9:08 am

      Muslim children don’t do anything without their fathers’ permission. Everything gets approved by the head of the family (father) so how come these kids had this planned and they each had $ 10,000? How did they get that money? Has anyone asked this? While they are being “deradicalised” where are they going to live?
      They are learning Jihad from their parents not internet. Internet is a tool used to connect to other Jihadists.

  9. Angemon says

    Sep 1, 2015 at 2:55 pm

    UP to 10 school-aged children who were considering going to war as death cult jihadists are now undergoing government deradicalisation programs.

    What of their parents?

    • Peggy says

      Sep 1, 2015 at 8:36 pm

      What of their parents? They are in shock, as usual.

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Sep 3, 2015 at 12:40 am

    They will only become non-dangerous if they leave Islam altogether.

    If they become atheists (like Ibn Warraq or the artist Bosch Fawstin who won the Mohammed cartoon contest, or like Wafa Sultan) or if they become Buddhists, or Christians (like Mona Walters did, and Hannah Shah, and Rifqa Bary, and Magdi Cristiano Allam), or perhaps even Jews…there actually *are* a few who have done that!! and if they are thoroughly taught and grounded in their new belief system, and protected from being attacked by their former coreligionists in the Ummah.

    Hannah Shah, author of “The Imam’s Daughter” first became intrigued by Christianity when she was a very small girl attending a church-run elementary school in the UK, and happened to hear the visiting vicar telling Bible stories. Then, when she escaped her – very abusive – family when she was a teenager, and was lucky enough to be placed with a non-Muslim – indeed, Christian – foster parent, she (of her own free will) trotted along to the foster parent’s church, listened in, and decided she liked what she was hearing. And underwent instruction, and was baptised. All hell broke loose when her parents found out, of course. Her father sent people after her to kill her (luckily, this failed). Now she is happily married to an English Christian guy whom she met at Midnight Mass.

    Muslim kids attending non-Muslim schools should *not* be anxiously deferred to and should not be shielded from contact with non-Islamic beliefs and practices; indeed, the latter should be presented without apology and represented honestly and positively. Because if that is done there *will* be other Rifqa Barys, other Hannah Shahs, and other Bosch Fawstins…and every such a one is a loss for the Camp of Islam, and a gain for the Camp of the Free. And for humanity in general.

    Two or three life-changing conversations with a fearlessly-Christian fellow student or teacher might well do more to ‘deradicalise’ a young Musilm…by kick-starting the process of liberating him or her from *Islam* – than any amount of BS from some slimy Imam.

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