Raising The Next Generation For Jihad

For every terrorist that rises up to kill and destroy in the name of religious martyrdom, it seems that there is always an endless supply of other terrorists queuing up to take their place. Nothing really newsworthy about that. Its been the norm way before even 9/11. 

You'd be more surprised though to learn the identity some of those so eager to 'sign up and blow up'. Mere children - ranging from toddlers that have not even attained kindergarten age yet, to teenagers who are still legally minors.

Meira Svirsky for the Clarion Project explains the process of indoctrination and hatred that would inspire children to grow up with hatred and a desire to kill by whatever means possible. Books, TV shows, theater contests, hit songs, parties, sports, social media, computer games  anything that children find attractive and enjoyable are the natural training channels of choice in the 'art' of shedding innocent blood.

Svirsky notes that such are mediums used by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to teach Palestinian children to hate Jews and incite them to punch, stab, shoot and otherwise kill the "enemy".

TV seems to be a favorite medium for the PA/Hamas axis to desensitize and incite their children. A childrens show on Palestinian TV featured two young girls as the shows hosts praising the Palestinian murderers of Jews as our "young heroes... who carried out all those great heroic acts." The show is ironically called Grownup Kids.

Palestinian textbooks teach their schoolchildren that Israel has no right to exist; the Palestinian Authority uses sports events to glorify terrorists, naming tournaments and festivals after the most gruesome killers; Hitler is held up as the ultimate role model in PA schools and on their Facebook pages; and the PA media teaches children the pleasure and rewards of martyrdom.

In addition, Hamas provides military training and indoctrination for kids through their summer camps in which Palestinian children receive paramilitary training, including how make a homemade rocket and how to fire guns (training uses live ammunition).

Little wonder then that, over time, children have also been used as suicide bombers, well-enticed with promises of utopian rewards and fully equipped with the so-called means to get them there.

ISIS has a similar program, using juveniles to assure the continuation of the "caliphate" and its mission by training the next generation in their methodology and dogma. Children are brainwashed to join the Islamic State in a number of ways. After targeting a community for takeover, the Islamic State will typically kill the men, enslave the women

and girls and take the young boys to be trained killers for the caliphate. Boys as young as five learn how to shoot and slaughter through a variety of methods - lynching, beheading and suicide bombings.

The trend has not been limited to just the Middle East. Somalia-based Al-Shabaab, the brutal Islamist terror organization responsible for the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, recruits children for use as soldiers. Children are lured to join the group through the use of extremist propaganda and material rewards.

Religious events in certain mosques often provide fertile ground for recruitment as well. This tactic has been reported in various parts of the United States too, such as Minnesota which has a heavy Somali immigrant population. The approach used for that demographic is to target older boys for recruitment, using internet videos, social media and testimonials from current members of the terror group.

In Pakistan, it has been reported that schools are being taught prejudice and intolerance of all religions except Islam. In addition, most teachers were found to view non-Muslims as enemies of Islam. A 2011 Pew Research Center study found Pakistan to be the third most intolerant country in the world.

Europes Britain is said to have been rocked by the "Trojan Horse" scandal in Birmingham and other locations where Islamist extremists have managed to take control of a number of publicly-funded schools and use them as a platform to disseminate discriminatory views.

A report by the former head of the Metropolitan police forces counter-terrorism division states in part: "This has been achieved in a number of schools through gaining influence on the governing bodies, installing sympathetic head teachers or senior members of staff, appointing like-minded people to key positions, and seeking to remove head teachers who they do not feel to be sufficiently compliant with their agenda."

One incident illustrating the vile intent of the extremists was when Asim Khan, a teacher at Oldknow Academy in Birmingham, is said to have led students in chants including "We dont believe in Christmas, do we?" and "Jesus wasnt born in Bethlehem, was he?"

A clear illustration that other 'infidels' besides Jews are also prime targets and Christians usually top the hit list in that category.

A hardline version of Sunni Islamism is what is used for indoctrination towards extremism. This approach works consistently and incredibly well for those championing it. Some recent examples bear this out. The current wave of terror attacks by Palestinians against Israelis has seen younger and younger terrorists perpetrating horrific stabbing

attacks. In Jerusalem, on a city train, two cousins, aged 12 and 13, stabbed a security guard in his upper body. A previous attack in the same neighborhood by 13- and 15-year-old Palestinians left a 13-year-old boy in critical condition and a man wounded.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) documented a sampling of this incitement in Palestinian social media in a recent report. Some excerpts from Facebook and Twitter accounts are as below. All are accompanied with photographs of very young children holding knives menacingly:

"Teach your children to love Palestine and take up knives, Oh people of Palestine. The next generation will be the generation of stabbings and slaughter."

Hashtags #SlaughtertheJew, #TheKnifeIntifada, #TheThirdIntifada

"My little girl rebelling and rising up".

The next generation for jihad is rising up, and being trained well. What a tragic picture of innocence lost.