How ISIS recruits children, then kills them

ISIS has long made clear its intent to raise the next generation of jihadists, calling them the "cubs of the caliphate." In a recent publication of their English language magazine Dabiq, it encourages mothers to sacrifice their sons for the self-proclaimed Islamic state.
"As for you, O mother of lion cubs. ... And what will make you know what the mother of lion cubs is? She is the teacher of generations and the producer of men," the article reads.

Winters says what is happening is very similar to how Saddam Hussein used child fighters in Iraq.
"Even right down to the cubs of the caliphate, there was the cubs of Saddam," he said.

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Erod said:

ISIS recruiting child soldiers at 'unprecedented rate' - CNN.com



God forbid they ever achieve their Islamic Caliphate. Imagine that world.

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Tim the plumber said:

Using children in all roles is surely a strong sign of an organization on it's knees.

The attacks from the air and from disaffected populations must be starting to bleed them dry.

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