VIDEO & PICS: ISIS Training Asian ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’ to Spread “Jihad” in Nusantara

Wed May 25, 2016 15:57:36

in the 16-minute video has been circulating this week on pro-Islamic State corners, Multiple analysts have confirmed the group’s claim that it filmed the video in what it calls al-Barakah Province, in northeastern Syria.

The children wear camo. They practice martial arts. They fire handguns and rifles in sync, as a proud instructor looks on. They burn their Indonesian passports in a crackling bonfire.

The film shows young Indonesian and Malaysian ISIS Terrorists dressed in combat fatigues and vests, jabbing AK-47 assault rifles into the air while a crowd of children joins them with chanting the Takbir in Arabic - an expression of faith in Islam.

“While the cubs of the Caliphate prepare themselves to be the conquering heroes in the near future, their fathers never stop waging jihad in the battlefields and being garrisoned on the front lines to expand the territory of the Caliphate and protect every inch of its lands,” the narrator intones, according to a translation by SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online "jihadist" messaging.

“We in the nations of Nusantara — Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia — by the grace of Allah, we have immigrated to the land of the Caliphate, and we left from the land of ignorance, the land of humiliation, the land of the lie, to the land that Allah had dignified,” says one of the older boys, cradling a rifle.

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