Once again, the Islamic State (ISIS) demonstrates that it doesn’t know what virtually every Western politician is absolutely certain about: that it has nothing to do with Islam.
“Taught to use a gun aged 8: The chilling story of 13-year-old ‘Caliphate Cub’ locked up in prison for child ISIS fighters who claims to have been dragged from UK to Syria and now wants to come ‘home,'” by Richard Ashmore and Andrew Drury, MailOnline, July 1, 2021:
A 13-year-old boy who was taught to use a gun by ISIS fighters aged eight is locked up at a prison for ‘Caliphate Cubs’ and says he wants to come ‘home’ to Britain.
Abdullah, who says he is a fan of Chelsea and McDonald’s, claims he grew up in London with his family, who are originally from Pakistan.
When he was eight, his mother and father took him to live under the Islamic State in Syria, along with his younger sister and two brothers. They are all now dead.
Most of his family were killed at Baghouz, the final stronghold of ISIS which was obliterated by US airstrikes in the last days of the so-called ‘caliphate’ in March, 2019.
He is now being kept at the Kurdish-run Hori Centre, a rehabilitation facility for boys accused of carrying out atrocities on behalf of ISIS, in the northeastern town of Tal Marouf.
Abdullah, who speaks good English with a slight accent, said he had been in Syria for less than a year when he was taught how to use an AK-47 assault rifle.
He claims to have never used it, but that ISIS wanted him and other children to do so.
Abdullah is one of scores of children ISIS sought to indoctrinate as ‘Caliphate Cubs’ to further their twisted ideology in a similar model to that used by the Hitler Youth.
He said: ‘The first day I go to school they learn me how to use the weapons.
‘And then I tell my mum, I can’t do these kind of things, and then my mum tell me go to second school. And the second school they learn me like the Quran and this kind of thing….
Lion heart says
As a Canadian Christian guy myself originally from Iraq, I wanna say this kid is lying because ISIS’ Caliphate Cubs “ we’re taught how to use assault rifles like AK47 and not only that but they also have been tight how to behead people and they did that in Mosul and Riqqa in Syria ! imagine the western governments of these kids wanna bring them back home including our Canadian government and fellow Canadians are very nice people and many of them their being nice amounts to nativity is ( unfortunately) so they assume these kids are innocent but when I told many of them how they are brainwashed into hating Christians and Jews and the sweat in general like the Muslim’s kids adults of falujah , Mosul abs Diyala , and how muslims persecuted Christina after taking Islam seriously after the fall of Saddam’s bloody regime and they killed many Christians , kidnapped & raped many Christian. Girls for adopting western style clothes , they burned down all the liquor stores of Christians front the North down to the south of Iraq etc .. still many of them don’t believe it assuming that Islam is peaceful but some of its followers twisted its teachings
john smith says
I always take notice to what you have to say Lion heart. Most of us here have been brought up in western countries. We are aware of just how difficult it must be for Christians to be brought up in a muslim country, but fortunately haven’t experienced it. That is why I take notice of people like yourself, Brigitte Gabriel, and Walid Shoebat, you all know exactly what it is like. So when you say something, I know, that you really do know what you are talking about.
gravenimage says
Agree with John, Lion heart. Your perspective is important here.
mortimer says
The child-warriors of ISIS learned the purest, canonical Islam, because the leader of ISIS was a PhD in Islamic studies who had studied ALL the Islamic source texts..
The late Caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, ISIS chief and the caliph of the Islamic State, was apparently the first Islamic Studies PhD from a Muslim background to have NO IDEA about Islam.
Al-Baghdadi, who obtained BA, MA and PhD degrees in Islamic studies from the Islamic University in Baghdad, was condemned as a person who knew nothing about Islam, and as the head of an organization that had nothing to do with Islam.
The professors from the Islamic University of Baghdad, however, do not agree. They taught the caliph and believe his credentials and doctrines are sound.
“If a person who has a PhD in Islamic studies and does nothing but study the Islamic scriptures knows nothing about Islam, then who does?” questioned al-Baghdadi’s main teacher from the Islamic University, preferring to remain anonymous since the fatwa against ISIS and its chief puts his reputation into jeopardy.
“The wine-sipping Muslims, those hedonistic adulterers will tell the world what true Islam is? Obama and Cameron know more about Islam than the faculty of Islamic studies at the Islamic University in Baghdad?” the professor bellowed with rage, while talking to a journalist.
Another professor, who had taught al-Baghdadi for his BA, said off the record that the ISIS caliph was an ardent student.
“He had this obsession with Islamic studies. I used to tell him to go out and have some fun sometimes. But his idea of fun wasn’t too human friendly,” the professor said. “In any case he was a top student. One of the best I’ve ever had. Had the entire syllabus on his finger tips – to be honest, he knew more about Islamic studies than most of the professors.”
“While you can question whether they are humans or not, there is no doubt that ISIS, including Abu Bakr (al Baghdadi), are indeed bona fide Muslims,” concluded the ISIS caliph’s PhD professor.
Keith O says
Hmm, let’s see.
Went to ISIS at age 8, taken as a POW age 13. That’s about 5 years of indoctrination and training, that is similar to the amount of time the Hitler youth had before being sent in to fight for the Father Land.
This sort of mind control of kids will not be easily turned around as the US discovered at the end of WW2.
German kids grew up and still held Nazi ideas as adults, but kept them to quiet most of the time.
A prime example of this is an individual named Joseph Ratzinger who fought with the Hitler youth against the Americans.
After the war he maintained his ideals and eventually became a Catholic priest. His dealings with others during this time and his statements showed his true nature.
This individual had a change of name later in life and the spin doctors tried to remove this part of his past. His new name? Pope Benedict!
Now we have kids who have been indoctrinated in a similar fashion and who want to spread their ideals to the world. With corrupt governments who, for the sake of a few votes, will condemn their own people to more suffering at the hands of these “children”.
Remember, kittens are cute and slightly loveable, BUT they grow into cats who are arseholes just because it’s a day ending in Y. These KIDS are the same.
gravenimage says
13-year-old boy recounts how the Islamic State taught children Qur’an and how to use a gun
…………….
Child abuse is a core part of Islam.
James Lincoln says
Yes, gravenimage.
And the behavior is “modeled” generation after generation…
gravenimage says
Grimly true, James.
I experienced abuse as a child–and the thing I wanted to do was to do what I could to make sure this didn’t happen to other children. But some victims of abuse go on to become abusers themselves–and Islam is set up for just that.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Very sorry to hear about the abuse you had suffered as a child – makes my blood boil.
And not adults, thankfully, model this horrific behavior.
God bless…
Giacomo Latta says
I suggest the 13-year-old do a quick study of his mom, dad, ma’s and pa’s to see if any of them are big on ”honour”, especially as mum seems to be in Syria herself.
OLD GUY says
Indoctrinate the children and build your army of followers. And Biden thinks that when they come to America their ideology of hate and violence against us will dissipate. NOT going to happen, that hate runs deep and is constantly reinforced.
Michael Copeland says
Richard Ashmore and Andrew Drury, of MailOnline, dutifully write of a “twisted ideology”. Perhaps their instructor was Nick Clegg:
“A religion of peace was being distorted, turned upside down and inside out, perverted in the cause of an abhorrent and violent set of intentions.”
It certainly was not Ayatollah Yazdi: “Violence is the heart of Islam.”
When these confidently authoritative pronouncements by Western politicians are set out next to statements by Islamic scholars and jihadis the result reads like a Monty Python script.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/03/islam-western-leaders-are-well-deceived/
gravenimage says
Too many Infidels desperately want to believe that Jihad is a twisting of Islam–when it is actually the core of orthodox Islam.