Washington: ISIS has launched its first mobile app to brainwash children into becoming jihadi killers. The app includes the vocabulary taught by it along with words like 'tank', 'gun' and 'rocket'.
Media reported that the application, available on Android phones, was released through Islamic State Telegram channels and on other file sharing websites. The horrific app has been designed by Islamic State’s 'Library of Zeal' department.
The application has games for memorising and how to write the Arabic letters in addition to including a 'nasheed' -- a cappella Islamic songs - designed to help teach the alphabet.
The lyrics in the nasheed are littered with jihadist terminology, while other games within the app also include militaristic vocabulary with more common, basic words. Words like 'tank', 'gun' and ' rocket ' are among the first few taught within the application.
Several images from the app, which is brightly coloured, include the look and feel one would expect from any children's application.
The 'Library of Zeal' also issued a press release, which included screenshots from the app as well as a link to download it, media reports said. The release said it teaches the cubs the alphabet letters.
The alphabet application is not the Islamic State's first mobile application, however it is the first to be directed exclusively at children. The jihadist group has also produced several videos from many of its proclaimed provinces showing children being trained for jihad or being indoctrinated at Islamic State-run schools.
Other videos from the terror group have shown children being involved in beheadings and executions of prisoners held by the Islamic State.
With PTI Inputs
