Paideia In The Islamic State

Hamas has been doing very similar, for years and years and years.

And one may deduce, from seeing this sort of thing, just what kind of ‘education’ was given to the boys who were seized from Christian parents and taken away to be trained as janissaries, and what was done to captured, enslaved non-Muslim boys who became mamluks.

This is how creatures that were born human are turned into something most closely approximating Tolkien’s fictional Orcs.