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The Children the World Left Behind

Heather Murdock

   AL-HOL CAMP, SYRIA - "We won't go to any infidel school," says
   Mohammed, 11, from Tajikistan. Other boys hanging around the Syrian
   camp market nod their heads in agreement.

   But Qassam, 13, from Azerbaijan has another idea. "If they taught us
   things like math and reading, then we would go," he suggests.

   Mohammed considers it. "If they taught English and things like that, I
   would go too," he agrees.

   In the Islamic State, the only real home Mohammed remembers, he studied
   academics along with weapons, martial arts and IS ideology. He would
   like to study academics again, as long as they do not try to un-do his
   IS training.

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