ISIS Music Video in French Featuring Children: Your Roads Will Be Rigged by Mines, Our Swords Are Sharpened to Slice Necks

A French-language music video, released by the Islamic State (ISIS) on April 29, shows children in combat uniform preparing for battle. The video, titled "Blood for Blood," includes footage of children walking through rubble and vowing to take revenge. The lyrics include lines such as: "Our swords are sharpened to slice necks" and "Beware, your roads will soon be rigged by mines by well-trained and determined brothers." Several versions of the music video, produced by Al-Hayat Media Center, the official ISIS media outlet, were posted on the Internet with subtitles in English and Arabic.

Song: "You grant yourselves the right to massacre us in the name of your so-called precious freedoms. Your goods, your lives, to us none of it is sacred. Your blood will flow for you heinous crimes. While your fighter jets bomb and destroy, your intellectuals look on without shame. Your media conceals all the atrocities. Our dead are not worth being mentioned [by your media]. You are murderers, manipulators. Lying is the hallmark of your speakers. Beware, we have what we need to defend ourselves. Well-armed soldiers are ready to kill you. You grant yourselves the right to massacre in the name of your so-called precious freedoms. Your goods, your lives, to us, none of it is sacred. Your blood will flow for your heinous crimes.

"Your laws allow collateral damage. Your soldiers kill our children and you call them heroes. You weep bitterly for a few dead not for the thousands you kill. You show no remorse. You fool the world with your eloquence, while legalizing your delinquency. Beware, we are ready to fight back. Our swords are sharpened to slice necks. You grant yourselves the right to massacre us in the name of your so-called precious freedoms. Your goods, your lives – to us, none of it is sacred. Your blood will flow for your heinous crimes.

"Beware, men are ready to blow themselves up, ready to respond to the evil you have brought. Beware, your roads will soon be rigged with mines by well-trained and determined brothers. Beware, your end is already planned. Our warriors are everywhere, ready to sacrifice themselves. Beware, our orphans are growing. They feed their thirst for revenge in rage. You grant yourselves the right to massacre in the name of your so-called precious freedoms. Your goods, your lives – to us, none of it is sacred. Your blood will flow for your heinous crimes."