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Radio Free Europe - http://www.rferl.org/content/islamic-state-babies-toddlers-sharing-photographs/27136799.html

For FULL ARTICLE, see above LINK – July 21, 2015

 

IS Babies, Children – Photos Used in Islamic State Recruitment

 

Mansur Shishani and a toddler posing with guns

Mansur Shishani and a toddler posing with guns

 

Another image, in Arabic but widely shared on pro-IS Russian social networks, is highly stylized and shows a toddler carrying a gun while holding the hand of an adult militant. The caption reads, "an image from the land of the legends."

A toddler used in an Arabic recruitment poster for Islamic State. The image has been widely shared on Russian social networls

A toddler used in an Arabic recruitment poster for Islamic State. The image has been widely shared on Russian social networls

 

 

Daghestani militant Muslim Derbentsky's social media post calling on people to join Islamic State uses a picture of a toddler with a gun

Daghestani militant Muslim Derbentsky's social media post calling on people to join Islamic State uses a picture of a toddler with a gun

 

“The Islamic State considers babies born to its militants to be IS property and has refused to let women whose husbands were killed in battle leave the territory it controls unless they leave their children behind.”