“The war gains belong to God and the messenger…Oh mother, don’t be sad, I’ve chosen the land of jihad. Wipe your tears, I only went to fight the Jews…All the Christians and a message to America, your grave is in Syria, our Front is victorious…They don’t want jihad. They don’t want Allah’s laws…Youths will establish a caliphate, following the prophet’s traditions, and they will carry the message of jihad…There are many without any religious knowledge. I’ll teach them and invite them, but if they don’t listen, then I’ll use the sword…The guys in charge of education are doing their best and working with the available resources to raise this generation that will be leading the jihad in the future….When one sees children like these who grow up obeying God…They will be the next generation to carry the burden of jihad and lead the nation, jihad in Syria and outside, God willing…He spends his time preaching to people and from a young age he started learning the Quran so he became a Sheikh at a young age…I want to be a suicide bomber for Allah’s sake.”
If we didn’t have John Kerry and Pope Francis and David Cameron and all the other experts on Islam telling us otherwise, one might almost get the impression that all this had something to do with Islam.
“In Photos: Inside the Al Nusra Academy Training the Next Generation of Jihadis,” by Sally Hayden, Vice News, November 11, 2015:
In a classroom in northern Syria’s Aleppo province a teacher begins a lesson by saying: “Today we will learn about faith and beliefs.”
Abu Baser questions the assembled boys — all in khaki green — on the meaning of the word “faith,” before having them repeat: “The war gains belong to God and the messenger.”
This is the Lion Cubs Religious Academy, one of several schools run by al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the al Nusra Front. VICE News filmmaker Medyan Dairieh gained exclusive access to the group earlier this year, spending time with the militia’s current leadership and the younger generation being groomed to replace them.
His footage shows children singing songs with lyrics like: “Oh mother, don’t be sad, I’ve chosen the land of jihad. Wipe your tears, I only went to fight the Jews,” and “Our leader [Osama] bin Laden who scares America with the power of his faith and his PK gun.”
In unison, they later chorus together: “All the Christians and a message to America, your grave is in Syria, our Front is victorious.”…
Abu Anas — a student recently arrived from Uzbekistan — is still learning Arabic. He told VICE News that he misses his relatives in his home country, but doesn’t miss Uzbekistan itself because “they don’t approve of jihad and they call us terrorists. They’re frightened by us. They don’t want jihad. They don’t want Allah’s laws.”…
“Youths will establish a caliphate, following the prophet’s traditions, and they will carry the message of jihad,” the children’s teacher tells VICE News….
Many of the children have seen horrific acts. A boy from Idlib said: “I witnessed the Nusayris (Alawites) kill the men and slaughter the women and children.”
“There are many without any religious knowledge,” he continued. “I’ll teach them and invite them, but if they don’t listen, then I’ll use the sword.”
Abu Khatab al Maqdisi, the al Nusra Front member assigned to show VICE News around, spoke about the students with pride. “God willing we hope that these cubs will lead the nation and end the oppression,” he said. “Hopefully they’ll be a powerful generation… The guys in charge of education are doing their best and working with the available resources to raise this generation that will be leading the jihad in the future.”
While driving to the frontline at the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Idlib, al Maqdisi said: “When one sees children like these who grow up obeying God… raised correctly, who in the near future will reach an age in which they can go into training camps and hold weapons. They will be the next generation to carry the burden of jihad and lead the nation, jihad in Syria and outside, God willing. One wishes to be a child again and be with them, see?”
Back in the school, Abu Ashak said…”My father reminds me of Osama bin Laden who terrorized and fought the Americans and one day my father will be like him,” he contined [sic]. “And I want to be like Osama’s son. He spends his time preaching to people and from a young age he started learning the Quran so he became a Sheikh at a young age. That’s why it’s important to think about my future now.”…
Meanwhile, Abu Ashak’s younger brother Abu Omayer said his parents sent him to the academy. “I want to be a suicide bomber for Allah’s sake,” he said, smiling bashfully….

Julian says
Aww, isn’t that adorable?
Julian says
Little indoctrinated Jihadis say the darndest things!
mortimer says
Adorable???
No. It is the worst form of CHILD ABUSE…teaching children to hate and then commit suicide!
Joseph says
mortimer, Those comments are so dripping with sarcasm that I have a towel under my screen.
Yes it is child abuse……kind of like the Hitler Youth???? Mao’s youth army??
Our own public schools are indoctrination centers and college is the final polish. Why should we be surprised that Islam does this. They are just more open on the final end game, only no one is listening.
Julian says
I guess I should’ve used the /s tag. My bad.
christianblood says
Will America and the West heed this warning and stop backing and arming these genocidal islamic jihadist terrorists and back President Assad’s regime who is the only one who is protecting Christians and other minorities from these blood-thirsty islamic jihadists?
JeffS says
I know. This is the “moderate opposition” that both sides of the aisle in the U.S. are so anxious to aid.
Jay Boo says
NPR’s moderate Muslims poster child refugees?
Jaladhi says
Evil teaching the young ones to be evil – such is Islam!1
Mo says
Evil little demons!
Worse are the adults who are teaching them this filth. I would not want to be in their shoes come Judgment Day.
mortimer says
A message back to the Young Lions of Absurdia:
O You who Believe in the primitive, plundering, plagiarizing, posturing, psychopathic, pretentious, prevaricating, polygamous, poisonous, pathological, playboy, pedophile pirate…the mythical misognynist Mohammed…you believe in the tooth fairy, because such an absurd, toxic narcissist did not exist.
O You Young Lion Cubs of Absurd Islam! Everything they teach you…the hatred, the supremacism, the sadism, the misogyny, the backwardness! All of it is absurd and false.
O You Silly Young Buggers! Your amoral and morally blind leaders lie to you and when you are grown up, you will despise the false teachers who have misguided you and you will demand their incarceration and punishment for child abuse and crimes against humanity!
O Muslims! Leave this amoral Death Cult and help others to leave it!
BC says
They are unlikely to grow up, most of them will be dead before the age of 20
Gary says
“Today we will learn about faith and beliefs.”
I lie from Hell. Why you ask? Muslims place the value of “The Messenger” far above God’s answer to mankind….
“In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.” (Hebrews 1:1-4)
Mohammad: A punk who raped little girls.
Angemon says
I’m sure they’ll come to their senses if they’re promised a job. Or if we end global coo… warm… climate change.
JeffS says
And in keeping with the sarcasm motif, I was planning on sending my toddler to follow in the footsteps of his older sister and go to Hebrew School next year, but now that I’ve heard of Al Nusra’s Lion Cubs Religious Academy, I might have to readjust my thinking about his religious education. And remember ISIS’ Lion Cub’s summer camp? Do you think I can send them to Al Nusra’s Academy during the school year, and to ISIS’ summer camp during summer vacation, keeping in mind that the bloodthirsty fanatics are at each others’ throats (in addition to ours)? Oh, the tough choices a parent has to make in this day and age.
R Cole says
Judi says
Abu Anas! Sounds like an appropriate name for him?
Jeremiah says
Let us make sure that we only destroy the bombs in their basements. It would be wrong to kill these children.
Baucent says
John Kerry and Cameron would say they are corrupting a great religion. It’s not possible that the great religion is corrupting them.
Dacritic says
Exactly.
R says
Ugly little bastards
David says
I have been convinced for decades that, the only “god” the muslims worship is SATAN. Just look at the psycopathic founder of their “Cult” and the unholy edicts of their book.
Who would want to ruin the lives of tiny children with teachings of hate, murder, death and blood shed? Only the insane or Satanic would knowingly do this!
Paardestaart says
What’s that whiteheaded kid doing among the cubs?!?