Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
There’s an alarming new kind of playground “game” springing up in the world today as children are now mimicking the horrors they see on ISIS propaganda videos.
Breitbart is reporting on the story of a half-dozen youths in Yemen who decided to re-enact the execution of Jordanian pilot Muath Al Kasaesbeh who was burned to death by ISIS militants. They trapped a 10 year-old boy in a wooden cage, then proceeded to sentence him to death by fire much like Islamic State leaders had done with Kasaesbeh. Once the mock-trial was concluded, the children doused the boy with gasoline and set him on fire.
Thankfully, the boy’s screams were heard in the nearby village and he was rescued, but not before suffering burns on one of his legs that required hospitalization.
Children have also been caught re-enacting the killing of 21 Christians on a beach in Libya last month. Elsewhere in Yemen, a group of boys used a cell phone to film themselves lining up a group of “victims”, forcing them to their knees and making them stare down at the sand while they await their execution.
“Each boy appears deep in character, honed from studying the terror group’s depraved videos,” the Daily Mail reports.
The “executioners” used sticks to mimic the act of slitting the boys’ throats and decapitating them.
Thankfully, no one was injured in this particular incident.
Even more sick is when adults make a mockery out of these lawless acts of murder, such as the Egyptian couple who gave their wedding guests quite a scare by hiring actors to simulate jihadis taking over their wedding. The hired thugs shoved the happy couple into a cage similar to the one in which Kaseasbeh was killed. Instead of being burned to death, however, the couple broke out in a happy dance. It was all a joke, but apparently the guests weren’t pleased.
“It is not clear if the groom meant this little stunt as sincere homage to ISIS or a joke, but it doesn’t seem to have elicited much laughter in either case,” Breitbart reports.
This article, appearing in the Daily Mail today, shows Syrians as young as eight years old sitting in the local cinema watching video replays of some of the more spectacular ISIS murders. Apparently, this is the most popular feature film in some towns.
Nor should it. A culture that makes a joke out of heartless acts of cruelty is going the way of the Romans who cheered while watching people being mauled to death by wild animals.
And we all know how that story ended.
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