The guidebook encourages mother's to begin preparing their children for war when they are just toddlers
A guide for raising 'Jihadi babies' has surfaced online.
The handbook titled 'Sister's Role in Jihad,' teaches Jihadi mothers how to raise extremist children.
The disturbing guide claims that the most important duty of a Jihadi mother is to train her children
to "fight the Holy war."
New mothers are encouraged to start instilling the radical message in their children's minds "while
they are babies" as by the age of seven they might not be so receptive to the radical message.
"Don't underestimate the lasting effect of what those little ears and eyes take in during the first
few years of life!" the guide says.
Heralding the birth of a new generation of 'Caliphate cubs' trained in warfare, the guide
recommends showing children Jihadi websites and reading bedtime stories about Jihad, while
playing darts is to
be encouraged to improve their aim.
The guide recommends introducing violence to children through play, encouraging them to
re-enact beheadings with dolls and play with toy guns to practice target-shooting. Parents are
advised though that they should "make it very clear who their target should be, and who their
target should not be."
Camping is encouraged since it teaches the child how to survive outdoors. The Jihadi training
is designed to be 'fun' it says, though it stresses that "fun does not mean music and dancing, as
is portrayed by Western children's TV, which mostly teaches shamelessness, anarchy, and
random violence."
It's believed that the guide inspired British extremist Runa Khan, who was jailed for five years
for posting images of her six children online dressed in jihadi uniforms, and advising an
undercover policeman of ways to get into Syria.
The original authors of the textbook are unknown, but it is thought to be used by ISIS and other
terror groups to indoctrinate a new generation of Jihadists.
Researchers from U.S-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) have warned that
the guide is being used to train children in the Middle East.
The handbook advocates training children when they are young to create a generation of 'cub caliphates.'MEMRI
Steven Stalinsky, executive director of MEMRI, said: "As we move into 2015, Al-Qaeda and its
affiliates, ISIS, and other jihadi groups worldwide continue to invest a lot of effort in indoctrination
of the
next generation of fighters.
"It is important for the West to understand that all these groups want the world to know
that this indoctrination is taking place. No matter what happens in Iraq and Syria in the near future,
the
next generation – the children of Baghdadi and grandchildren of bin Laden - have already been
brainwashed to hate the West and to strive for jihad and martyrdom," he explained.
"They have been trained on the battlefield and know how to create bombs and suicide belts and
to behead and crucify the innocent. This is something we must be prepared for and understand."
Twitter accounts linked to the terror group regularly feature images of children named 'Ashbal',
meaning lion cubs, dressed in combat uniforms and brandishing knives and large machine guns.
The report comes as an Italian mother, whose son was kidnapped by his father and taken to
Syria, recently reported seeing an image of her son in an ISIS propaganda poster.
Lidia Herrera said she left the boy with his father last year as she went to visit her relatives in
Cuba.
In her absence he took his son to Syria to join the extremists. The boy, who is now three, is
being brought up by other terrorists after his father died fighting.
A list of approved activities in the Jihadi Mother's Guidebook includes:
- Martial arts training
- Swimming
- Archery
- Target-shooting (with different kinds of toy weapons)
- Darts
- Horse-back riding
- Orienteering (learning to navigate your way in the woods)
- Exercise (running, jogging, push-ups, etc.) to build stamina
- Skiing
- Driving (a range of different vehicles)
- Camping / Survival Training (an excellent and enjoyable method of training