The federal government has alerted Nigerians to a newly-launched mobile application developed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, for propagating Jihad to children. Nigerians parents are warned to beware of the ISIS indoctrination app.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, June 16, 2016 the minister of information and culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, said the ISIS indoctrination mobile application, tagged ‘Huroof’ (Arabic alphabets or letters), is to be used by ISIS to teach children the Arabic alphabets with the aid of guns, military tanks, and cannons.
“The application utilizes colourful illustrations that attract and engage the attention of young children,” the minister said, urging members of the public in general and parents in particular to be vigilant and to prevent their children and wards from being indoctrinated.
The statement was signed by Segun Adeyemi, a media aide to the Lai Mohammed and emailed to The Trent.
ISIS Indoctrination
Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram has made attempts in the past two years to associate itself with the Iraqi terrorist group, ISIS. ISIS is known to have a global recruitment strategy.
Last month, Ibrahim Uwais, the son of the former chief justice of Nigeria, Mohammed Uwais, was killed in a US-led coalition airstrike in Iraq where he had gone to join ISIS.
Uwais was believed to be in the convoy of Abu Waheeb, a senior ISIS leader dubbed “the emir of Anbar”, at the time of the US airstrike in a town near Rutba in the Anbar desert. All in the convoy were killed in the strike, but only the identity of Waheeb had been made public by Pentagon.
US government has on Thursday, June 6, 2016 has warned that ISIS capabilities are not slowing down, despite its losses in the battlefield.
