Toddler decapitates teddy in IS-style video
Chilling clip shows smiling child happily cut into toy's neck with large knife
A newly released video appears to show an Islamic State-educated child behead his teddy bear with a knife, in what has become the terror group’s signature method of execution.
The short video shows the toddler, dressed in militant-style garb, run into the room with a huge knife in his hand, which he proceeds to use with great enthusiasm to cut into the neck of a toy teddy bear. An Islamic State flag hangs in the background.
At one point he stops and glances questioningly at the man holding the camera, who appears to shout words of encouragement to him. The child returns happily to the chilling cutting action.
It has not been confirmed the the video is indeed an official video produced by the group, but it seems, at any rate, to have been made by persons who approve of its gruesome methods.
The Islamic State has shown its indoctrination of children in the past. In February the group released a video showing a jihadi training camp for children, where they are trained and reportedly taught to decapitate blonde-haired, blue-eyed dolls.