ISIS news today: Toddler beheads teddy bear the ISIS way

By Marvie Basilan, Christian Post Contributor Tuesday, August 25, 2015

In a new video deemed to have been released by the Islamic State, a toddler is seen decapitating his teddy bear as he stands behind an ISIS flag.

Seen by many as a hideous act, the seemingly preschool-aged child is dressed in a jihadi suit and he is encouraged by a man off camera as he slowly and carefully beheads a white teddy bear with a large hunting knife.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the video circulated on Arab social media on Sunday and immediately took the attention of many Internet users.

While the child is all smiles as he craftily shows how he has been trained to behead stuffed toys, experts deem that the child is one of the children used by the ISIS to show how they rear children into a world defined by their own insights of faith in Allah.

By the end of the video, the child smiles and lifts his knife in what could be his sign of victory, as the man off camera yells "Allahu Akbar!"

If indeed released by the extremists, the video is only an addition to the many propaganda videos created by the group in a bid to show the world what they can do, including the recruitment of children that the group affectionately refers to as "cubs of the caliphate."

The training videos are meant to be distributed for young children and teenagers, as part of the efforts of obtaining more fighters who, once decided to be part of the jihadi group, will receive military training and indoctrination of a hard-line kind of Islam faith.

Meanwhile, Time Magazine points out that while the ISIS seems to try to take the attention of people around the world with new videos, particularly the United States, a "war-weary" American public seems to decline in reacting to the jihadists' efforts of sparking another world war.