This is religious edict in Islam, stated by Muhammad himself: “War is deceit” (Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2637).
Deceit is used to kill infidels and also in Muslim on Muslim war. Now the Houthis are recruiting children into their war with Saudi Arabia, and telling the children that they are fighting Jews — the arch-enemies of Islam since, according to Islamic tradition, Muhammad made his flight from Mecca and Medina. “Houthis abduct, indoctrinate kids to believe they are fighting Jews, Yemeni journalist tells ‘Post,’” by Danielle Greyman-Kennard, Jerusalem Post, October 8, 2026:
The Houthis have forcibly recruited children to fight in their war against Saudi Arabia and the Saudi-backed government, threatening families in territories they control and indoctrinating young people to believe they will be fighting against Jews and Zionists, a journalist who formerly worked in Houthi-controlled territory for a decade told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
“A,” who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that he feared the Houthis would punish his friends and colleagues still working in Yemen if they became aware of his communication with the Post. He noted that the Houthis are already holding several international humanitarian workers hostage, in addition to local aid employees.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced earlier this week that the Houthis have already sent at least eight people involved in human rights and humanitarian work for criminal prosecution on espionage-related charges punishable by death, since August 18.
Though the Houthis’ use of child soldiers has long been documented, A said, “The problem is escalating and increasing with the recent developments.”
Houthis threaten citizens with death in order to recruit more soldiers
“Whenever they control new areas, the first thing they do is force people to be recruited. Otherwise, they will be punished, they will be imprisoned, or they will be killed,” he explained….
Explaining that the reason the Houthis are comfortable killing their own people is the same reason that makes a peace agreement with them impossible, A said that it was “firmly” embedded in their ideology that they have the “divine right to govern… not only controlling all of Yemen, but also they want to control Mecca and Medina and Saudi Arabia.”…
The West still has not figured out, in its arrogance, that Islam is manipulating Westerners and playing the willfully blind for fools. Training child soldiers for jihad is common in Africa and in the Middle East. It is the face of jihad, and the highest calling in Islam, so why not include children?
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad host jihad summer camp for kids. What do the woke leftists think they’re doing in those camps? Laughing and playing games? The main purpose of the camps is the glorification of “martyrdom.” According to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Hamas runs a network of summer camps which include military camps throughout the Gaza Strip, in order to train the younger generation of Gaza’s children to become the future generation of the organization’s terrorists.
The document – written and issued in July 2023, by the Al Qasam Brigade military wing of Hamas – lays out a plan to host Hamas summer camps for children on the movement’s terrorist bases, with the goal “To advance the resistance culture and the values of Jihad, standing strong, and sacrifice within the children… to contribute to the militarization of society.”
Years ago, the Nigerian terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) released a video which showed armed children executing two military officers. Also, Boko Haram often uses children as suicide bombers. Tens of thousands of jihadist child soldiers are recruited and trained to murder.
The lies that the Houthis use to recruit children illustrate once again the common practice of lying that stealth and violent jihadists alike engage in on a routine basis. The use of deceit as Muhammad commanded, according to Islamic tradition, is called taqiyya (dissimulation), and it’s employed as a means to advance the cause of Islam.
JM says
It is hard to believe that there is something (Islamification) this evil in the world today, but here it is.
Taffy says
“What do the woke leftists think they’re doing in those camps? Laughing and playing games?” Of course not! They think that they are sitting around campfires at night, singing songs and toasting marshmallows.
But seriously this is sad. Those 8 years old and up are another lost generation that must die out before there can be some semblance of peace in the Middle East. But the good side is that being a Hamas soldier halves one’s actuarial life expectancy.