VIDEO: Mosul student explains IS' education system
The Islamic State (IS) was teaching students in schools how to use weapons and fight, according to a student who studied at one of the insurgent-run schools in Mosul.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – The Islamic State (IS) was teaching students in schools how to use weapons and fight, according to a student who studied at one of the insurgent-run schools in Mosul.
The extremist group emerged in Mosul in June 2014 and shortly expanded to other provinces in Iraq, including Nineveh, Salahaddin, and Anbar.
Since then, the group lost most of the territory it once controlled and continues to shrink as the Mosul military operation to liberate the city from IS is ongoing.
Kurdistan24 correspondent Goran Shakhawan visited one of the schools in the Gogjali neighborhood, east of Mosul, and spoke with Ahmed, a student in the area who studied under IS’ rule.
Ahmed explained to Kurdistan24 the insurgent group changed the education system and created textbooks that were mostly radicalized and contained violence.
The textbook covers were redesigned by the militant group with violent pictures.
“The teachers were bringing weapons into the classroom and teaching us how to use them,” Ahmed said.
A resident of the neighborhood told Kurdistan24 IS’ education system radicalized youth to the extent they were interrogating and criticizing the elderly for violating IS’ laws.
Editing by Karzan Sulaivany