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French priest reveals IS child jihadist training
AFP/MSN ^ | 11-20-16 | Pauline TALAGRAND & Nathalie ALONSO

Posted on 11/20/2016 4:17:39 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Islamic State group may be teetering on the brink of collapse but the jihadists are creating an entire new generation of would-be terrorists, according to a book written by a French Catholic priest describing the daily lives of three young boys.

The Yazidi children -- forced into training camps by IS -- spend their days studying the Koran and learning to fire automatic weapons and even have their own custom-made bomb belts.

"The Daesh (another term for IS) training camps are machines that crush children until they forget where they come from" and "feel close to their torturers, ready to fight for them with their lives", said Patrick Desbois, who collected the testimonies of the children. In his book, "The Making of Terrorists", published in French, Desbois describes the ultraviolent daily lives of the three young boys, Jotiar, aged nine, Schvan, 14, and Diar, 15.

"They have to get up early, study the Koran and then they're trained in pain resistance and a specialisation," Desbois told AFP.

Those specialisations include using a Kalashnikov, sniper fire, laying bombs and becoming a suicide bomber. The children "all have an explosive belt adapted to their size, a Kalashnikov and grenades", he added. Diar told him: "We didn't feel anything. We felt we were Daesh. Some of the children even witnessed or, worse still, took part in executions.

In school, even core subjects have been given a jihadist flavour.

"In the mathematics class, they would learn what is a bullet plus a bullet, or a rocket plus a rocket," Salem Abdel Mohsen, a father who did not send his children to school under IS in the small Iraqi village of Jaraf, said recently.

But it is the return to Europe of a mini-army of radicalised and desensitised children that is perhaps most feared by...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: daesh; isis; jihad; yazidi

1 posted on 11/20/2016 4:17:40 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

How can this be?

The koran is a book of peace. Everyone knows that...


2 posted on 11/20/2016 4:26:52 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Funny how the scumedia and the politician is telling us they are our friends and they are telling us we will kill you


3 posted on 11/20/2016 5:43:30 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

I believe them!


4 posted on 11/20/2016 11:05:44 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic ( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
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