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El-Mahalla El-Kubra

Children in El-Mahalla El-Kubra role-playing as ISIS fightering and “slaughtering” other children. Faces in this screenshot were blurred by Global Voices Online.

Egyptian kids would rather play ‘ISIS executioners’ than ‘cops and robbers’

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Here’s a stark lesson in why many people want ISIS execution videos and images to be ignored: A group of children in Egypt was recently filmed re-enacting an ISIS-style beheading, showing just how much propaganda value such images can have.