Youth Movement Affiliated with Hezbollah Spreads Messages of Violence
In 1982, a new terrorist organization was founded in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah, literally meaning “Party of God”, is behind numerous terrorist attacks including suicide bombings and rocket launchings. Equally as dangerous is the way Hezbollah educates Lebanese youth in accordance with the organization’s interests.
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Since its founding, Hezbollah has embedded itself in Lebanese society and linked itself with the Lebanese political and social systems in order to appear as a legitimate body in the eyes of the world. The organization has developed a well funded and well organized education system in order to ensure that children grow up to support and join the organization.
Additionally, children take part in youth movements, such as the Imam al-Mahdi youth movement, which is affiliated with Hezbollah. The movement teaches the ways of the “resistance” as well as military tactics and radical Islam.
One of the most recent magazines published by the youth movement, and designated for children aged 4 to 7, teaches the merits of martyrdom.
On the cover of the publication titled “I resist”, a drawing of smiling children calls on youth to resist the enemy. It is followed by explanations for parents on how to teach their kids about the idea of ‘resistance’.
The next pages are filled with games such as the coloring of military equipment like grenades and explosives, finding a path through a maze filled with mines, pasting stickers of rifles and grenades, and raising the yellow Hezbollah flag over an enemy bunker.
Is this the education you would want for your children?
