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Yes, you may be sure it is dead easy to indoctrinate children. All you have to do is instill the idea that thinking for yourself is bad and that faith trumps reason. Discourage questions as much as possible.
Last year I read an article about the new phenomenon of child suicide bombers in Pakistan. There has been a wave of these attacks in recent months. Here are the details of one such attack:
In December 2007, an attack in Kohat that killed 11 army cadets was carried out by a bomber aged 16 or 17 who detonated explosives strapped to his body as he approached his targets. (Who knows how many of the cadets are now blind or missing limbs — it’s so sad children can be convinced to treat other children this way.)
In January, a boy of around the same age blew himself up at a mosque in Peshawar in a sectarian attack on worshipers gathered there. (You would think worshipers would be safe, but such is the power of brainwashing vulnerable children.)
The children were too young to be led into these atrocities with the promise of 72 virgins like the wretched men who attacked our country on 9/11. Instead, these children were promised they would go where rivers of milk and honey flowed. Their life of boredom and poverty would be replaced by an elaborate supernatural fantasy. No one has ever actually seen these milk and honey rivers, of course. But, amazing as this may seem that doesn’t really matter, so divorced are believers from reality.
According to the report Pakistan suffered Fifty-six suicide bombings in 2007 alone, killing at least 636 people, including 419 members of Pakistan’s security forces.
A further four bombings in 2008 have already killed over 70 people – the most recent at a political rally on 11 February when a teenage suicide bomber blew himself up in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border.
| Posted on Sunday, March 1st, 2009 at 6:59 am in Child abuse, Childhood Indoctrination, Children's rights, Religion. | |
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