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Video: Egyptian Children Playing ISIS Beheadings

A video has recently been circulating which depicts Egyptian children re-enacting gruesome ISIS acts.

Staff Writer

Video: Egyptian Children Playing ISIS Beheadings

When the media began sharing ISIS execution videos, we here at CairoScene decided that despite the crazy amount of traffic the videos would generate for our website, the act of doing so would in turn be helping ISIS spread fear and inspire the insane to join them. What we didn’t expect is that these horrific videos would be so widely shared that it would inspire Egyptian children to stop playing cops and robbers and instead turn to playing games whereby kids pretend to behead one another using wooden sticks.

For months ISIS has been releasing execution videos that are highly produced and edited, almost reminiscent of Hollywood films. Instead of ignoring the videos as the propaganda which they clearly were, the media began airing the videos in their entirety to highlight their high production value. Sadly the damage from showing these videos now coming to light, as a group of children from Egypt’s El Mahalla El Kubra have been video-taped 'pretending' to slaughter one another ISIS-style.

 

 

The video, showing the loss of Egyptian children’s innocence, was uploaded by Tamer Abdo Amin, and was quickly shared on various social media platforms. In the video one of the children that is pretending to be their leader, describes the ISIS as fighters without allegiance to any religion or nation, before ordering his “men” to slaughter the other children. He says, "We have no religion or nation. We slaughter children, women and the elderly. We have decided the following: to kill all the youth of the town of (inaudible). Slaughter them, men!"

This clip exemplifies why the ISIS video should no longer be shared - however, one can assume off the basis of this video that the damage is done. Often forgotten in Egypt’s continual turmoil is how it is affecting its children. During uprisings children started playing cops vs protesters, which then turned into army vs brotherhood, which has seemingly now evolved into children playing ISIS. This latest development is both shocking and disturbing and it could be argued that the responsibility for this ultimately falls on the media, as well as social media users that, by sharing these grizzly videos, have allowed children to be exposed to these gruesome acts and thereby negatively affected the country's youth.