12 Year Old Boy Beheads American Spy - I've Heard It All Now - Wow!

When the youth of any one group is taught hatred and killing in the name of God, it is an atrocity. The Jihad is insuring their legacy of terrorism continues through their children. Each time I hear of a different way they kill for their cause, makes me realize that terrorism is never going away. All we, as humans, can do is instill the right values in to our own youths, and live our own lives by these values. We need to teach tolerance, kindness and compassion. We need to be sure hatred of anyone is not a value we instill in them. Most people, including myself, will never understand how a 12 year old boy can do such a haneous act. Just as we cannot understand how young adults and teens in America can kill their classmates. There is so much violence in America. These violent acts are just as haneous as the act committed by this 12 year old member of the Jihad. Most of us can never imagine committing an act such as this. It is up to us to insure that our children grow up with the proper values to make this world a more peaceful place. Sorry if I am rambling here. But in answer to your question, each act of violence we learn of seems, to me, to be a new low. By no means do I wish do diminish the graveness of this act. Considering the evilness of the Jihad, this is certainly shocking, but to me, not surprising. PEACE

I feel compelled to ask: Who is "we" ???

you remember those people who speak of human rights for prisoners in the US? I want to know what these people would say about how US prisoners or any Caucasian prisoners are treated in the middle east. Prisoners are prisoners, no matter where they are, they are humans too. Why is it that nobody said anything about how prisoners or even civilians are treated in the middle east, but when a middle eastern prisoners are treated badly in the US, people screamed about human rights? If I were the president, an eye for an eye is what I'll call fair.

we???you mean moslims i presume?

This is horrible. Is the child an orphan brainwashed by others? Where are the parents? Imagine what that 12 year old is going to grow up into. Another terrorist.

Those people have been at a new low for a long time. This is really no surprise. It is easy to brainwash the young and misguided in any culture.

Who knows what other terrible things this 12 year old child has witnessed and participated in. As for your question "have we now reached a new low?" sadly there is nothing new about children being coerced by adults into committing acts of violence for political reasons or becoming active combatants in violent conflicts. The UN produced a report last year that estimated 300,000 combatants under age 18 are illegal recruits in more than 30 conflicts around the world - some as young as 6 years old. Usually these children are made to commit serious crimes alongside adults and this is by no means confined to the Middle East. Countries include Darfur, The Congo, Sierra Leone, Nepal and Colombia and then of course there's Rwanda in the 90's where hundreds of children were imprisoned in the aftermath of the conflict accused of participation in genocide and crimes against humanity. So tragically it's not "new" but it's rare for us to actually witness with our own eyes a child committing this sort of terrible act. Unlike others I wouldn't question your use of the term "we". The effects of conflict on children around the world is devastating whether they are actively involved or innocent bystanders and as fellow human beings we should all feel a responsibility to address that issue and acknowledge the part the "civilized countries" play in allowing that situation to continue.

My thoughts are that this is a form of child abuse, and a true crime against innocent children. I just recently watched the movie "Blood Diamond", and that movie depicts how a group can indeed capitalize on brainwashing very young children to carry out their dirty work. I believe that is the new low that is being carried out in those groups. See I refrain from saying in society on a whole, because I don't believe it is a whole nation or country that agrees with pursuing that type of tactic, but rather isolated groups that find it easier to manipulate through fear the young minds of children. We know, psychologically speaking, that children are impressionable and when they are raised to believe that a certain way is the only and correct way, then it is easy to convince them to do what we think is horrific, but these young children are being taught that it is important for their faith that they do this. It's like a cult that brainwashes them. Look at our own American society, look at the 'gangs' and we have the same exact example of what this 12 year old boy did. How many times do we hear on the news about some young boy or girls involvement in a gang related shooting, and we think OMG that can't be right. But it is the same thing, children being raised in an environment where a certain teaching or behavior is encouraged as acceptable or the only way to survive. It makes it that much easier for them to commit the horrific crimes that they do. I don't think we have reached a new low, because all one has to do is research wars of the past to know that the common tool of war that was used, was recruiting the very young to fight the adult battle. It was and is a form of psychological warfare, because in our society on a large scale we do try for the most part to allow our children to grow up in happy and healthy environments, whereas other cultures do not always hold the same standards for children. Again, this is definitely a crime against children in those cultures.

Really astonishing how people carry down and hand down vengence and hatred down the generations. How humanity is dieing at an unbelievable rate. People must understand that passing on such hatred to young hearts is not only a crime toward humanity bt also a big crme toward innocence... PLease lets raise our voice against it MAy GOD Bless YOU

Oh, of course. Its disastrous, and unfortuntely its only going to get worse. I think put all of them in lockdown and let them kill each other. What can I say. They are evil, I totally agree with you. I dont know what intrudes in peoples minds to make them want to be so visciuos.

Yes, this is a new low. A new low for us. We don't kow how long this has been going on. However, Americans have reached a new low, too. We are slowly losing our privacy and our freedom due to American paranoia. Look at police brutality. I think it has taken a lot of people a long time to see what that exists and that it has existed for a long time. The police have been untouchable for as long as I can remember. Sure, that boy beheaded the man and that is gruesome. However, American police officers shoot to kill if you are the wrong color or from the wrong country. It should not matter, but those wondering, I am white.

This if it is true is a very sickening look at where the world is heading. I also read an article the other day where school children murdered their teacher because she wouldn't let a boy read a certain piece of literature in class, I think this was religion based. I saw a few videos shown on the news about youths abusing their teachers which were shown on UTUBE, I find this site is really stirring up youths to do things they shouldn't be getting away with and I feel personally that the site should either be closed down or monitored a bit better, before it gets really out of hand. It started out as a bit of fun but now who knows where it will end.

New low? New low is what happened in Brazil: a 10 Year old boy cut off a 3 year old kid head. By his own! That is a new low. You know what? That kid must be treated as an Assassin, not as a kid. That kid must pay for his sins. They should do like in the old times: Cut off the kid's hand. And then, threat his mother, so she won't have a baby again. That's what should happen. If the crimes are getting to a new low, the world should take actions! I doubt that, if that kid lost it's hand, he would try to kill anybody again. I doubt.

wow..u spy? i am living in an islamic country.. hopefully not terrorist country..

I think this heart wrenching for that poor man, and the very thought of a child with so much to be able to do this proves I think that the world is beyond repair, I think it really is time for all people who do not belong in these countries to come home, there is no point to trying to save people who do not wish to be saved, but leave with no shame we tried that is all the rest of the world can do....I judt feel so for that poor man.

i saw it over the news yesterday, you can imagine how much the kid needs to be brain washed to do such thing.

That is just sick. It is bad enough that this sort of thing is going on...but to involve a young child like that? How barbaric and disgusting can you get? That just absolutely sickens me. How can a 12 year old child even do a thinkg like that? How do they have it IN them to do such a thing?

I wonder where did you see this video. I am not really surprised. i do know a lot of examples of using children to do things, especially in our territory. There were a lot of terrorism attacks that were held by terrorists that took a child and used him as a bate. It is very common in a few countries that surround my country. The security people are not suspecting that a child will get into a country with bombs on his body and will explode himself, and that is why it always works. Yes. I do think that the world and a lot of people are sick for doing so. But i also know that it works, and they will continue to do so.

I don't even think it is a 'new' low, sadly. I thnk in some parts of the world, twelve year old boys re a little different then my 12 year old boy who is asleep upstairs. I have no doubt about the authenticity of the video or about the child's age. It is my understanding that certain terrorist groups have summer camps that begin recruiting much younger than 12. I am not going to name any names, but there is one that stars with H which is very popular and children are taught all the principals, ideals, and slogans from a very young age.

this is horrible.....survival of the fittest as they say. in this kind of news,it saddened me to know that even young human beings were taught how to hate.taught how to kill. we should teach our young generation how to love instead of hate.