In a five-part documentary filmed in Raqqa by Vice, a news website, as a guest of IS, the group's religious police are shown educating Syrians, running courts, indoctrinating children and putting on public entertainment.The motives of those going to fight are as varied as their passports.
He calls this "invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas".In this section Jungle formula Noisy and eternal Invisible sieve A Pirandellian thriller ReprintsIt all sounds scary.
And he is busily indoctrinating his children, too, not just in the habit of reading but in his other passion, Star Trek: he gives them novels about the adventures of the Starship Enterprise.In so doing, he claims to be boldly going where no man has gone before: the Bezos offspring read these books not on paper, but on Amazon's new electronic-book reader, the Kindle.
The same goes for those Jews who think they have a god-given right to grab Palestine and the Catholic church with its policy of indoctrinating children when they're most young.Brian Smale Hoeilaart, BelgiumBlowing bubblesSIR – You outlined the perils of creating money that exceeds the justifiable value of an economy ("Bubble warning", January 9th).
The only Christian believers left are local Somalis.Catching and killing them is useful propaganda for the Shabab, not least for indoctrinating its young fighters and suicide-bombers in the belief that America, Britain, Italy, the Vatican, along with Ethiopia and Kenya, are all "crusaders" trying to convert Somalis to Christianity.
Increasingly preoccupied with indoctrinating its heirs and harking back to revolutionary days, Beijing's leaders closest in outlook to Mao Zedong and Lin Biao viewed the soldier-communist as the most suitable candidate for the second- and third-generation leadership.
"These people were not attracting, indoctrinating, radicalising, recruiting people to send them to Syria or Iraq to join [Isis] and fight, but rather their aim was to act in Spain, which is a sensitive, differentiating factor," he told a radio station.
And where is the integrity in indoctrinating your children with a "moral framework" that we as adults have all rejected?
Isis hopes to secure its future by indoctrinating the next generation with ideology from a young age.
Those who have fled say the group has gone too far in its approach to education, indoctrinating Syrian children in a brutal perversion of Islam.
At the height of the Cold War this institution was successful in producing a crop of dictators for the region, indoctrinating Latin American officers in techniques of the "national security state".
