Kids in Egypt are staging mock ISIS-style be-headings with wooden sticks as they play-act the executions of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians.
Disturbing new video, showing a group of smiling young boys pretending to act out last week’s Islamic State murders, has sparked outrage across the northeast African nation, Central European News reports.
In what appears to be a 24-second copycat, two of the children can be seen playing the role of “captives” as they kneel with their arms behind their back. Three other boys stand over them with toy swords to their throats and issue chilling demands — mimicking ISIS thugs who have been filmed killing hostages.
“We have no religion or nation,” one of the children says to the camera with a smile on his face. “We slaughter children, women, and the elderly. We have decided the following – to kill all the youths of the town of [inaudible]. Slaughter then, o men!”
Two of the young “jihadis” then pretend to slice off the heads of their fake victims, who convincingly fall backwards to the ground moments later.
It is not clear where or when the video was filmed but Egyptian freelance journalist Tamer Abdo Amin reported that the children are from the city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra, which is an industrial and agricultural hub in the Nile Delta region, according to CEN.
Amin and others have posted the video on social media to voice their disgust with the footage — claiming the Islamic State is brainwashing the minds of children in Egypt.
“This is the impact of ISIS videos on children in Al Mahalla Al Kubra,” he wrote on Facebook. “That moment when children in Egypt play ISIS.”
“There was a time when kids in Egypt, like kids everywhere, played cops and robbers,” Egyptian journalist Mohamed El Dahshan explained.
“Tonight I saw this video, of kids playing [ISIS]…and that’s not a game that has a happy ending in any possible way. Nobody wins. This is the saddest thing I’ve seen in a long, long time.”
One user fumed that the video was, “Evolution turning wrong!” while another referred to it as “an eye opener.”