To those of you who have always seen through the Egyptian military junta, this doesn’t come as a surprise of course. After all, why should a military dictatorship which abuses men and women stop short of abusing children?
To those Egyptians who believed that the military takeover in July 2013 was a good idea or that it would only be temporary, and to those Egyptians who strangely admire of a military which doesn’t really have a track record of success and which relies on foreign aid to maintain its equipment, maybe this propaganda video will open your eyes.
Little children in military uniforms between tanks and artillery singing “I love you [General] Sisi” (at 2:30) is something which I have until now only seen in fascist regimes. When they sing “If I would be a martyr, I’ll be one on the borders,” I wonder whom the Egyptian military is planning to attack – and why they need the help of little girls. But maybe General Sisi is too much of a sissy himself. Putting little girls into uniforms and forcing them to sing about martyrdom is not only fascist, it’s child abuse.
The Arabist calls it “Sisi’s Kindersturm”, which is an appropriate term for it. (Thanks also to Wronging Rights, where I found the video.)
The Happy Hermit 
That’s nasty… even Mussolini’s fascist Government only issued wooden training rifles to male school children never females, teaching male children how to march was part of the Italian national curriculum in the 30’s and through WW2. My Father got his one when he was 8 years old.
It didn’t work out for Benito, hopefully it won’t work out for Sisi…
Considering that Mussolini only fell from power when the Allied powers intervened militarily, I am afraid Egypt won’t see a major improvement soon.
I heard on the radio this morning that the Taliban have tried to use a 10 year old girl as a suicide bomber in Afghanistan… It’s all over the free press.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/suicide-bomber-girl-taliban-commander-2995789
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/girl-suicide-bomber-afghanistan-taliban_n_4548932.html
I think it’s scary! Reminds me of Nazi propaganda , it starts off seemingly innocent but it isn’t , is it!
Exactly. I don’t trust governments who use children for propaganda, especially not it they put them in military uniforms.