Mohamed El Dahshan

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’

February 23, 2015Conflict

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.

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