How ISIL is Turning to Children for its Next Breed of Jihadists

 

By Chris Harris

ISIL has more than 30,000 pregnant women within regions it controls as the extremist group prepares its next generation of fighters, a new report has claimed.

The women are being kidnapped, used as sex slaves and impregnated solely to boost the group’s future manpower, according to Nikita Malik, a senior researcher at Quilliam Foundation and co-author of The Children of Islamic State.

The dossier also reveals children already under ISIL control – including up to 50 children from the United Kingdom – are being exposed to extreme violence from young ages, even in the group’s education system.

“The sheer scale of the violence was very shocking,” Malik told Euronews (you can listen to the full interview here) “The violence is so deep within the curriculum.

“Textbooks, for example, will have pictures of guns and the guns will be used for counting and pictures of tanks. And this was in a primary school book.

“The level of violence, the normalization of violence was very shocking to me because it’s something you don’t associate with young children. 

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Source: Euronews