ISIS children remain to be ticking time bombs

Before his death, ISIS spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani expected his bloody organization to continue to live at the hands of its children who grew up at its training camps.
He said
these youngsters would shoulder the responsibility of maintaining the war, even
if ISIS crumbled.
Adnani
was killed by an American airstrike in 2016. His organization was active in the
recruitment of children. It was keen on producing the next generation of
terrorists whom it called the "Children of the Caliphate".
True,
ISIS had lost most of its strongholds in both Syria and Iraq. Nevertheless, the
terrorist organization had left a dangerous heritage, namely thousands of
children who continue to live inside refugee camps in the two countries. These
children had received their education at ISIS schools.
ISIS education
ISIS
considered state-offered education in Syria and Iraq to be corrupt. The
organization's main theoretician Abu Mohamed al-Maqdissi wrote a book about the
dangers inherent in state-offered education. He also called for the founding of
schools that preach the principles of his organization.
ISIS
succeeded in establishing some of these schools. It considered them an
important pillar of its aspired Islamic society.
At the
end of 2015, the terrorist organization launched its new education system. The
new system did not include any music classes at all.
Basic
education started at ISIS schools at the age of five. Pupils, it said, would
study until they are 15. It separated boys from girls and imposed penalties on
parents who failed to send their children to school.
Children
and arms
ISIS
could not find enough teachers to teach at all of its schools. This was why it
depended on teachers who used to work for the Iraqi Ministry of Education. It,
however, allowed them to teach at the schools only after they attended
repentance sessions.
The
organization made it necessary for school pupils to study English as of the
fourth primary grade. The content of the school curricula mainly encouraged
violence. The cover of one of the school textbooks had the photo of a child
standing outside a mosque and carrying a machine gun.
The
textbooks had no mention of Iraq or Syria at all. They substituted the names of
the two countries with the "Islamic State". The books were also full
of photos of Iraqi and Syrian homes destroyed by shelling by the Iraqi and
Syrian armies.
The
books, meanwhile, portrayed the presumed Islamic State as a utopia. ISIS
distributed food and drinks to pupils. It used these children in combat inside
Iraq and Syria after merging them into what it called the "Caliphate's
Children's Camps".
Although
ISIS lost control in Iraq and Syria, it continues to be active in Africa and
Asia, depending on its teachings and the children it recruited in different
countries, according to the site Defense Post.