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ISIS has planted a ticking bomb that is hard to defuse: traumatized children
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| September 21, 2017
| Taylor Luck
Posted on 09/21/2017 6:12:15 PM PDT by Jagermonster
SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS Iraq hasn't enough mental health professionals to handle the legions of traumatized children who, because of ISIS, saw and did things they never should have. But if enough teachers can be found, schools could help put them on a path to healing.
AMMAN, JORDAN—In camps for internally displaced persons and in the war-torn towns and villages of western Iraq, there is one legacy of the so-called Islamic State’s brutal reign whose magnitude experts and authorities are only beginning to understand: traumatized children.
From the stateless children of ISIS members, to child soldiers and the tens of thousands indoctrinated in ISIS schools, a generation of young Iraqis has been traumatized and radicalized by the nihilistic jihadist group. They are at war with themselves and their own community.
In the words of one trauma specialist, many of these children have, as a result, lost their “trust in humans and humanity.”
Unless authorities and the international community work to help reintegrate these children into society, including by providing counseling and psychiatric care, experts warn that Iraq and Syria will face a generational “time-bomb” of extremism, deliberately planted by ISIS, that could one day again threaten regional stability.
Experts warn, too, of a lack of trained mental health professionals to deal directly with the children’s emotional wounds, but they hold out hope for one solution that may be more within reach: If enough teachers can be found, getting the kids back in a school environment could create the stability needed for some healing.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; islam
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A terrible thing to read about, but God's love can reach and heal even these poor kids. They don't inevitably have to be a curse and a burden on their nation.
To: Jagermonster
Like sick animals, many will have to be put down, sooner or later.
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posted on
09/21/2017 6:16:02 PM PDT
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Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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posted on
09/21/2017 6:18:26 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(DACA: Their dream, our nightmare... will the rule of law prevail or not?)
To: Magnum44
The good people trying to help will themselves be assassinated.
To: Jagermonster
Like those 8-year olds kneeling at their football game.
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posted on
09/21/2017 6:30:17 PM PDT
by
aynrandfreak
(Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
To: Magnum44
So islamists who were acting as good muslims are going to help kids who were carrying out allahs will? Uh what am I missI got?
To: Jagermonster
The jihadiscum created them.
Our own domestic enemy, in its overwhelming need to allow its ‘feelz!’ to dominate their thinking, along with their degenerate need to support any enemy anywhere at any time simply because its our enemy, is what planted those timebombs among us.
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posted on
09/21/2017 6:49:56 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Magnum44
They simply cannot be deprogrammed. Don’t bring them here.
To: Magnum44
The ISIS kids are only part of the problem. There are thousands of kids that have witnessed the torture and killing of their families. Many young girls who were taken as sex slaves cannot go home because they have suffered “dishonor”.
The Free Burma Rangers rescued a number of traumatized kids.
One little girl watched her whole family get shot while trying to flee ISIS. She hid for two days under her dead mother’s hijab, pinned down by sniper fire until she was rescued. She could not speak a word for several days. These children will need love and care. Thankfully there are some kind Iraqis and some great Christian Charities that are willing to help.
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posted on
09/21/2017 7:44:30 PM PDT
by
FBRhawk
(Pray with faith, act with courage, never surrender!)
To: Jagermonster
Islam has never been a religion of peace.
It has always been a religion of conquest and slavery, murder and mayhem.
Know Islam, No Peace
No Islam, Know Peace
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posted on
09/21/2017 8:04:07 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Jagermonster
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posted on
09/21/2017 8:20:47 PM PDT
by
traumer
To: Jagermonster
obviously, the best solution is a return of refugees so that their population can instill normalcy in the lives of the children. Foreigners, no matter how well intentioned, just add to the detachment.
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posted on
09/21/2017 9:17:52 PM PDT
by
blueplum
( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: All
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posted on
09/21/2017 9:24:36 PM PDT
by
musicman
(The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
To: All
Yep, sort of like the Media/Democrats are doing with minority youth: teach them to hate whitey/America from birth to maintain their power base without any thought as to the consequences.
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