Left: A nine year-old soldier joined ISIS in Iraq.
The Western media is shocked, shocked by the findings of a six months’ study, documenting the jihadist indoctrination of “The Children of the Islamic State.” Released on March 7, the research by the London-based Quillian Foundation, which was supported and endorsed by the United Nations, “documented 254 instances where children have been used in Islamic State propaganda.”
It has also noted that “Schools and the education system…to shaping the hearts and minds of the next generation. The indoctrination that begins in schools intensifies in training camps, where children between the ages of 10 and 15 are instructed in shari’a, desensitised to violence, and are taught specific skills to best serve the state and take up the banner of jihad.”
That, however, should have come as no surprise for to the U.N., the media, or anyone following Palestinian indoctrination of children to jihad against Israel, especially after the Palestinian Authority was formed in 1994.
The Quillian report noted with worry that there are 31,000 pregnancies in the ISIS-controlled territories. But generations of Palestinians children have been fed a steady jihad, beginning in their mothers’ wombs.
According to the CIA Fact Book, the Gaza Strip, which it lists as a “country”, had 1,179,165 children and young adults in July 2015. There were 799,072 children (0-14 years; male 410,599/female 388,473);and 380,093 young adults (15-24 years; male 194,798/female 185,295)
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) runs 252 school in Gaza, serving more than 240,000 children. The majority of the teachers in these schools are members of Hamas, which the U.N. has failed to designate as a terrorist group.
UNRWA’s website claims its schools have “excellence’ initiative”, a dedicated human rights curriculum” and “Summer Fun, a programme of recreational activities. However, evidently
the textbooks, provided under UNRWA’s watchful eye, are saturated with anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic propaganda, their schools serve to hide rockets and other weapons, and the children summers are spent in jihad training camps.
The success of Palestinian jihadi indoctrination has been reaffirmed by ISIS, which chose to emulate the system. Could UNRWA be far behind?
Below are a few examples illustrating the similarities between the Palestinian’s and ISIS’s jihadi indoctrination:
