Erick Stakelbeck: "Kiddie Jihad"

If you are scandalized by Catholic church child abuse scandals, here's a little something to help you shy away from becoming a Muslim.

Strategies in the global war against Islamic terrorism are taking very different roads in 2010. The Obama administration hopes downplaying Islamic extremism may help when dealing with Muslim countries.

Terror groups, however, are taking extremism to new levels by indoctrinating Muslim children in the deadly art of suicide bombing.

"The state-sponsored illegal recruitment and education of innocent Muslim children to become suicide bombers and child soldiers is occurring throughout the Muslim and non-Muslim world," said Brooke Goldstein, founder and director of The Children's Rights Institute, an organization focusing on human rights violatios against children.

"In Pakistan, thousands of children are being educated in madrassahs," she said. "In Iraq, handicapped children are being blown up at polling stations. In Afghanistan, the Taliban is paying up to $12,000 per child, donated to them by their own families.”

Taliban leaders run training centers where boys as young as 11 years of age learn to be suicide bombers. Some are even younger.
A 6-year-old Afghan boy recruited in 2007 was told that his suicide belt would "explode into flowers."

Cute. Maybe the Muslims are worried that Heaven will run out of virgins if the martyrs are all postpubescent males.

The article ends with a glorious punchline: "In the meantime, she says international human rights groups like Amnesty International have shown little interest in the issue." That is because AI equals politics plus fundraising.