My Interview on CCTV-America on the Islamic State's Use of Child Soldiers

I was interviewed on CCTV-America on Wednesday, Jan. 14, about the recruitment and training of child soldiers by the Islamic State (ISIS). Hopefully this link will stay for a while, since the CCTV-America producer sent it to me. (Hear that, Google?)


Unfortunately, I don't see much hope of a solution to the problem without the total defeat of ISIS. And, of course, ISIS has found all sorts of "Islamic" justifications for their use of child soldiers, despite the explicit prohibitions of such practices in Islamic law and Islamic history. But that has never stopped them from engaging in innovation (bid'a), which they're supposedly fighting against to impose a "pure" Islamic state on a "barbaric" world.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul7yF3SyoZk&feature=youtu.be