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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Child Soldiers of Jihad

Aug 24, 2016 7:15 am By Robert Spencer

In FrontPage today I explain how, for jihadis, this is not child abuse. It’s doing them a favor.

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CNN reported Tuesday that “dramatic video has emerged of Iraqi police stripping an explosive belt from a child suspected in a suicide bombing attempt for ISIS.” This followed the bombing in Turkey on Saturday, when a Muslim boy between twelve and fourteen years old murdered 51 people with a jihad suicide bomb at a wedding party. These were just the latest examples of the longstanding jihadi practice of using children in jihad attacks – a practice that the jihadis themselves regard as just the opposite of child abuse, and indeed, the greatest activity in which a child or anyone else can engage.

Najmaldin Karim, the governor of Kirkuk Governorate in Iraq, asserted that the Islamic State (ISIS) had “trained and brainwashed” the child suicide bomber. “They tell them if they do this, they will go to heaven and have a good time and get everything that they ever wanted.”

Is ISIS eccentric in this idea, or twisting and hijacking the peaceful religion of Islam? The Qur’an says: “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed” (9:111).

This is essentially a guarantee of Paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah. This verse has become in the modern age the rationale for suicide bombing. The mainstream and revered Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir explains: “Allah states that He has compensated His believing servants for their lives and wealth — if they give them up in His cause — with Paradise.”

Another Qur’an commentator, Ibn Juzayy, adds: “It is said that it was sent down about the Homage of Aqaba [an early pledge of Muslims’ willingness to wage war for Islam], but its judgment is general to every believer doing jihad in the way of Allah until the Day of Rising.”

So it has been understood. Abu Abdel Aziz, a modern-day jihadist who fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia, said in a 1994 interview: “I have found that the best sacrifice we can offer for the sake of Allah, is our souls, then our possession[s].” Then he quoted Qur’an 9:111.

So the Qur’an guarantees Paradise to those who “kill and are killed,” and what do they get in Paradise? The famous virgins: “Indeed, We have produced the women of Paradise in a creation and made them virgins” (56:35-36), “fair women with large eyes” (56:22), “full-breasted” (78:33). And along with these girls come “rivers of wine delicious to those who drink, and rivers of purified honey” (47:15).

And so Hussam Abdo, a 16-year-old Palestinian who was stopped by Israeli troops before he could detonate his suicide vest, explained why he wanted to kill infidels and himself: “A river of honey, a river of wine and 72 virgins. Since I have been studying Quran I know about the sweet life that waits there.”

Likewise Rabeen Ali, a 14-year-old Iraqi, was exhorted to become a jihadi by an imam. Ali recounted: “He told me about paradise, about virgins, about Islam.” And a would-be Pakistani suicide bomber explained that he had no interest in getting married on earth: “72 virgins are waiting for me in heaven – so why I should prefer only one here?”

As bizarre as it sounds, this is not some lusty adolescent’s misunderstanding of Islam. It is the real thing. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Everyone that Allah admits into paradise will be married to 72 wives; two of them are houris and seventy of his inheritance of the [female] dwellers of hell. All of them will have libidinous sex organs and he will have an ever-erect penis’” (Sunan Ibn Majah 39).

This is not Playboy Magazine, it’s Islamic doctrine, straight from Muhammad himself. And it is just the sort of thing that would appeal most to frustrated teenage boys denied any kind of normal interaction with girls his age. If he just blows himself up in a crowd of infidels, he will have girls galore, wine, honey, and cool breezes – as Najmaldin Karim put it, suicide bombers are promised that they will “go to heaven and have a good time and get everything that they ever wanted.”

Suicide bombing recruiters believe all this is the perfect word of Allah and the teachings of Muhammad, the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21). Thus when they try to get young boys to become suicide bombers, they don’t believe they are engaging in child abuse – far from it. They believe they are performing a meritorious act that Allah will reward.

All this manifests yet again the myopia and willful ignorance of mainstream counter-terror analysts. They believe they can dissuade young Muslims from becoming suicide bombers by offering them jobs and talking about mothers crying for their lost sons. The idea of heavenly blessing and reward they do not address at all, because they don’t take it seriously and don’t believe that the would-be suicide bombers do, either.

As long as this willful ignorance continues, all Western attempts to stop this practice are foredoomed to failure. As is our entire counterterror approach, based as it is on politically correct fantasies – fantasies that are far less compelling than the ones that move young Muslim men to strap on suicide vests.

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  1. eur says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 7:47 am

    Only in islam you can see this.
    Hear your neighbors celebrate for a week that his son has been a ” martyr ” who was slain, educate their children with these example … just in Islam.

    • Hindu American says

      Aug 24, 2016 at 2:58 pm

      In Indian Kashmir, muslim parents push their kids to the front of the rioting mobs so that any injuries to those kids become “good” press propaganda. These kids are paid to throw rocks and Molotov Cocktails at the police only to taunt them into physically responding.

      • carpediadem says

        Aug 25, 2016 at 3:52 am

        Sounds familiar! Just like the Palestinians.

  2. Moses says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 8:33 am

    When they blow themselves to pieces they will receive the so called 72 virgins.

    • Christopher471 says

      Aug 24, 2016 at 9:31 am

      Isn’t it strange how not many Imams blow themselves up. But of course they don’t want to take the pleasure away from the young men and women who do. How good of them!

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 24, 2016 at 10:38 am

        One would think that imams and jihad leaders would insist that they alone were the ones who had they greatest right to execute themselves for the honor of serving Allah.

        • Peggy says

          Aug 24, 2016 at 9:34 pm

          Their unwillingness to die for Allah proves what a load of BS they are peddling.

        • faraway says

          Aug 25, 2016 at 9:24 am

          They are following mohammed’s example: before battle he would offer his sword, as an honour, to the most deserving of his fighters.Being a coward,he found this clever way of avoiding combat.

    • Charli Main says

      Aug 24, 2016 at 4:20 pm

      Not if you bury them in pig shyte and pig offal. No virgins, boys as sweet as pearls and herds of sexy goats for these Muslims because Allah does not allow pig products in Paradise.

      • faraway says

        Aug 25, 2016 at 9:33 am

        Sorry about that Charli,you beat me to it.Great minds…etc.

        • Charli Main says

          Aug 25, 2016 at 12:16 pm

          Happy to stand with you in the thin line facing the Muslim tidal wave bearing down on us.

          Islam is like the Terminator Cyborg. It cannot be reasoned with, negotiated with, compromised with or lived with. It has no feelings or emotions. Its prime directive is to destroy us and it will not stop or diverge from its mission.

          The ONLY way you are going to survive, is to destroy it before it destroys you.

    • faraway says

      Aug 25, 2016 at 9:29 am

      I have a solution to suicide bombing: the state should take possession of the body and bury it with bits of pig(apologies to pigs).Due to this “impurity” they will no longer have the hope of getting to paradise.

  3. duh swami says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 9:03 am

    Children are weapons too…So Says Moloch…’Children,,,’Though they cone through you and are with you, they are not yours’ …Islam takes that to mean that Allah owns them, and if Allah chooses to use them as arrows he can shoot them with his bow at Will…If your name is Will, look out…

  4. Angemon says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 10:16 am

    Since I have been studying Quran I know about the sweet life that waits there.

    Not that this has anything to do with islam…

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 10:30 am

    How totally despicable and cowardly of the adults jihadist /Muslims of ISIS and other likeminded jihad terror entities are to brainwash , manipulate , exploit and abuse impressionable youths as suicide/homicide bombers for their mad Islamic quest., Some good people of reason, might , stop and wonder and then ask “Just how can those jihad-minded adults be so completely cruel and unconscionable as to use, youth as stooges and tools for human bombs ?” The answer to the question is found in the Bible. For the Bible informs its reader that there are some people who are so extremely heartless, unfeeling, cold, callous and dangerous 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.

  6. Elisheva says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 11:00 am

    Our tax dollars goes to support this insane culture of death. Terrorists’ families all profit from Terrorism. They are rewarded generously in this world with our money. That in itself is an incentive that should be halted.

  7. Elisheva says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 11:20 am

    In Gaza there are summer camps that train kids to kill. This death cult is proud of klliing infidels

  8. marina says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 11:28 am

    I heard one muslim woman telling a group that she wants her son to become a “martyr” for the cause of Allah. She has already told her son that she wants to be a martyr’s mother. Nothing is more honorable than that and they both will enter “jannat.”

    She must win the “best mother of the century ” award.

    • KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says

      Aug 24, 2016 at 4:21 pm

      If she is desirous of Jannah, she also must have already signed up for “Virgin Recycling” training through one of the many now famous Virgin Recycling franchises I’ve sold in Gaza, Pakistan, France, Belgium, Germany, Londonistan, Minnesotaistan and Michiganistan.

      Watch for new Virgin Recycling franchise opportunities in emerging American markets in Virginia, New York, California and Florida and in UK cities, Birmingham, Manchester, Rotherham, Luton and Glasgow. We grow every day.

      • Vlad says

        Aug 24, 2016 at 11:56 pm

        I WANT ONE OF THEM FRANCHISES 🙂
        Bloody ripper idea, NEVER RUN OUT OF VIRGINS AGAIN!!!!!. Once the cherry is popped just put them back into the hopper, onto a conveyor belt, and “pop goes the weasel” 🙂
        INSTANT VIRGIN.
        What more could any mooslime want?
        You can fuck them, them stone them, whatever the mooslime wants, as they come back to be stoned and fucked again.

  9. Peter Ahlskog says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    Vote for the right president, Americans. You don’t want to expose your children to what kids have to face everywhere there are Islam:

    From the age of two French children will now learn how to survive a terrorist attack. 13-14-year-olds should be trained in life-saving measures.

    Little children, 2-6 year old, must be taught to hide, be silent and not talk about danger, in a not scary, “playful” way. In this way, preschoolers shall learn to keep a cool head during the attack.

    Older children will learn life-saving measures.

    500 school administrators will be trained by the French police annually to staff crisis centers and act as liaison with the secret police. 1.2 million middle school students will be trained in first aid.

    The plans were revealed Aug 23 by Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

  10. Peter Ahlskog says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 5:13 pm

    Austria think that asylum seekers can make a handle for the land that feeds them. If hey refuse, allowances can be withdrawn.

    Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz wants migrants to work 15-30 hours a week in various community projects in exchange for money, food and shelter given to them by the Austrian taxpayers.

    He notes that many of the so called refugees are illiterate, but should be able to perform simple work that benefits the community, such as street sweeper or gardener. For this they would get € 1 per hour. If they refuse, they can be completely without money.

    In Germany Muslim asylum seekers refuse to work. They say that they are in Germany as Angela Merkel’s guests.

  11. J-A palmaer says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    Islam – as described here – will be materialistic, bargaining for souls, and represent a very sexist view of heaven and of its superior… Can this be classified as “Religion”? The Persian word “paradise” is itself a garden with a wall protecting from evil – but, evil means overcomes this “wall” – with a “promise” which needs to be questioned! How can Evil be “allowed” in Paradise?

  12. Peggy says

    Aug 24, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    Muslims are soldiers of Islam from the time they can hold a gun.
    Does anyone remember the Balkan war from 1990s? What happened in Bosnia (Srebrenica) was proclaimed genocide because Muslim boys were killed along with men while women and small children were put on buses and allowed to leave.
    Now calling it genocide because “boys” were also killed is a bit of a stretch considering that boys make excellent soldiers in Islam. That means they are to be treated like any other soldier.

    So when you kill a Muslim boy during a war you are committing genocide while he will most definitely kill you and many around you if you don’t. These “boys” were part of Muslim forces which massacred civilians in the surrounding villages but since they were only “boys” when Serbian forces killed them it was considered genocide.

    These minors are also exempt from prosecution for any crime they commit like raping that innocent little girl a little while back. If you retaliate then you are the problem. Minors are also used by criminals to do their dirty work because nothing will happen to them.

    How does one fight an enemy like this? You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t. UN doesn’t care and protects them.

  13. common sense says

    Aug 25, 2016 at 2:46 pm

    “Thus when they try to get young boys to become suicide bombers, they don’t believe they are engaging in child abuse – far from it. They believe they are performing a meritorious act”

    That is Islam and Mohammad’s way, and Muslims love it. I’ll teach my friends and family all about ’embracing diversity’ with this article, they can either buy a Kevlar vest or make their very own a suicide vest complete with a moon rock nockneedle lock, thanks Robert!

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