https://freerepublic.com/tag/mahdiscouts/ en-us Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:17:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137309/posts ON A Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy Scout-style uniforms and kerchiefs stand rigidly at attention as a military band plays, its marchers bearing aloft the distinctive yellow banner of Hezbollah, the militant Shi'ite movement. They are adolescents – 17 or 18 years old – but they have the stern faces of adult men, lightly bearded, some of them with dark spots in the centre of their foreheads from bowing down in prayer. Each of them wears a tiny picture of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Shi'ite cleric who led the Iranian revolution,... scotsman.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137309/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:17:26 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701197/posts TEL AVIV – Hezbollah leads a youth movement that instructs tens of thousands of children and teenagers in military tactics and indoctrinates them with radical Shia Islam beliefs – including the waging of a final, apocalyptic world battle against "evil," according to materials found by Israel during last month's war in Lebanon. "Hezbollah established its Imam Mahdi Scouts to attract Shiite children and adolescents, to influence their hearts and minds and to prepare new generations of youth indoctrinated with radical Shiite Islam, which propounds the idea of the return of the Mahdi (messiah) as one of Hezbollah's central principles," states... WorldNetDaily https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701197/posts#comment Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:25:40 GMT