Once again, TED has presented a fascinating video that sends chills down my spine. This speaker worked with the Taliban recruiters and children undergoing suicide bomb training. Through her observations, she has been able to garner the 5 main steps that allow the Taliban to successfully brainwash these children into tools of terror:
1. Recruit children from poor families with plenty children in rural areas. The Taliban promise food, shelter and clothing for children and maybe a monthly allowance that is sent to the families
2. Teach the Koran in Arabic to the children in a distorted fashion as the children cannot speak or understand Arabic. The children are forbidden to read any media or information that the Taliban hasn't selected for them.
3. Teach children to hate the world. Children spend 8 hours at a time reading the Koran, rarely given play time and are beaten.
4. Older Taliban members glorify martyrdom to the children and tell them of the heaven-like afterlife that awaits them
5. Taliban further brainwash children with their videos that broadcast that Western powers do not care about civilian deaths. The following message in her speech didn’t quite make sense: “Their videos that they use are intercut with photographs of men and women and children dying in Iraq and Afghanistan and in Pakistan. And the basic message is that the Western powers do not care about civilian deaths, so those people who live in areas and support governments that work with Western powers are fair game. That's why Pakistani civilians, over 6,000 of whom have been killed in the last two years alone, are fair game.” Though here’s an interpretation: The people who support and work with the Western powers are directed at, hence, any civilians that live in the areas around Western powers are also targeted.
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