ISIS creates phone app to indoctrinate kids to destroy Western landmarks

The Islamic State has developed a mobile application that aims to indoctrinate children to destroy Western landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, and the Statue of Liberty.

Colonel John Dorian, the spokesman for the international coalition, said that the app, known as Huroof or alphabet, is supposed to teach the children Arabic, but the words being taught are related to violence and extremism. He said that the app teaches the children to spell out words such as tanks and grenades.

"The children are rewarded if they say they are prepared to carry out attacks on the West, the targets are places like the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower," Dorian said, according to Iraqi News.

Dorian said that children from territories controlled by ISIS may have to be de-radicalized after they have been liberated due to the indoctrination that they went through.

"I am concerned about is the damage, the numbing of these children who are being taught an ideology from a time that they are very young. That's untold damage, that's really serious and it has to be undone once this territory has been taken back," the colonel said, as reported by Mail Online.

ISIS has released several videos showing young boys carrying out executions of prisoners and learning how to use weapons.

In August, security forces arrested Mahmoud Ahmed, a 15-year-old boy who was ordered by ISIS to carry out an attack on a sports stadium in Iraq.

Ahmed revealed in an interview with Sky News how ISIS trains children to fill its depleted ranks in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

He said that they were taught how to use a Kalashnikov and a PKC machine gun and that there were four men who would indoctrinate them about heaven.

"Twenty-four hours a day they'd teach us about this stuff. There were 60 of us born from 2002 onwards. They would scare us and would show videos of beheadings and stuff like that," he said.

The teenager said that he went back to his handler when he reached his target because he knew that it was wrong to carry out the attack. His handler ordered him to go back to the stadium, but he was arrested by the authorities.

Ahmed is now being held at a juvenile detention center on terrorism charges and is expected to serve a lengthy jail sentence.