ISIS Steps Up Violent Recruitment of Children

Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).

ISIS is now the world’s biggest user of children as forces for their terrorist army.

ISIS calls the children forced into fighting “cubs of the Islamic State” and see them as key to taking over the Middle East.  They believe that using social media to promote the use of child fighters is a way to gain more young teens into the extremist groups.

ISIS is taking the children to special “indoctrination camps” where they are forced to convert to Islam, learn the details of the ISIS brand of Islam and then be trained on weapons and war tactics.

The children are also forced to attend executions and torture of people who violate ISIS version of Sharia Law.

ISIS recently sent on social media pictures of two children they described as “martyrs” for the cause after they were killed in U.S. airstrikes on ISIS bases.  One of the children, identified as Abu Ubaida, was described as the “youngest fighter in Islamic State.”

They also shared videos of children re-enacting the beheading of American journalist James Foley and changing “Allahu Akbar” while carrying about the “head” of their fake Foley.

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