While most the world has become disturbingly numb to the decades old child cult of death employed by hezbollah -a shia branch of islam in Lebanon, Syria, etc- this recent child recruitment by predominantly sunni al qaeda, is something new.
The children do mock shaheed (martyr) statements, carry weapons, and are shown the proper technique for kidnapping and murdering hostages.While perversely proud of their evil deeds to perform on camera, they are curiously ashamed enough to mimic their adult counterparts and wear ski masks like common criminals.
To paraphrase Golda Meir: 'We will have peace when they love their children more than they hate us'.