The young son of an Australian jihadist has been photographed gripping the severed head of a slain Syrian soldier.
Khaled Sharrouf's son, believed to be aged seven, used both hands to hoist the decapitated head up as he posed for a chilling photo.
His proud father, one of Australia's most-wanted terrorists and a suspected war criminal, posted the photo to Twitter on August 8 with the caption: 'Thats my boy!'.
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Khaled Sharrouf's son, believed to be aged seven, had to use both hands to hoist the decapitated head up as he posed for a chilling photo in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa
The extremely graphic photo - seen on Twitter by Daily Mail Australia - is believed to have been taken in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, according to The Australian.
With an uncomfortable expression on his face and clearly struggling to grip the head in his hands, the boy stands posing in front of a fence that featured the severed heads of apparent enemies of ISIS.
Dressed in an innocent blue t-shirt, checkered shorts, sandals and a cap - the youngster looks more as if he's dressed for a holiday tour than a warzone.
The boy, who looks dressed more for a holiday than a warzone, looks uncomfortable and struggles to grip the head in both hands.
Sharrouf also uploaded a photo of himself posing with the same soldier's head with the caption: 'What a head'.
Another photo shows Sharrouf posing with his three young sons dressed in identical camouflage fatigues, wielding machine guns.
One angry tweet, accompanied by a picture of Sharrouf and his children all dressed in military fatigues, reads: 'The more u hate this path you infidel aussie dogs the happier feel dieinrage when you cant affect men lie about women.'
He has also directly threatened Australian journalists and claimed 'Inshaallah soon in Aus' - which means 'God willing or if Allah wills', a clear sign he wishes to bring jihad back to Australia.
Peter Leahy, former chief of the Australian Army, said he thought the war against Islamic terrorism might continue for 100 years.
'You see something like that and you think 'poor kid'… That kid is the next generation and how many kids are being exposed to that?' he told Today.
'We really do need to be concerned about radical Islam, and can I stress I'm not talking about Islam here, I'm talking about those radicals, those terrorists, those people who subject women and children around the world to barbarity and then they put these images [online] and expose their own children to this type of thought.
'I just can't imagine what this young boy is thinking and I certainly can't imagine what his father's thinking.'
Sydney Muslim community leader Keysar Trad condemned ISIL and those working with them as 'a bunch of brutal thugs and murderers' and said they 'have nothing to do with Islam'.
Mr Trad told Today that Australian Muslim leaders have condemned the photographs of Sharrouf and his children as 'horrifying' and 'shocking' and said they were 'working very hard to stop the supply' of young Muslims to radical groups such as ISIL.
Sharrouf also uploaded a photo of him and his sons dressed in identical camouflage fatigues wielding machine guns.
Daily Mail Australia has seen scores of gruesome and confronting pictures from the conflict - but the photo of Sharrouf's son brandishing a head is arguably the worst of them all.
Sharrouf, a former Sydney resident, is thought to be fighting with al-Qaeda off-shoot Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Security agencies believe he left Australia using his brother's passport in December, and he will be arrested on terrorism-related charges if he ever returns to Australia.
His friend Mohamed Elomar, a former Australian boxer, was pictured recently grinning widely as he posed with two decapitated heads. He then appeared advice on how to access deadly explosives in Sydney.
In July, Sharrouf posted a picture of a child brandishing an assault rifle and issued a call-to-arms for other Australian Muslims to join Islamic State's bloody war in the Middle East as well as posting a photo on Twitter of a young child brandishing a rifle.
Political correspondent Graham Richardson said the pictures showed the conflict was 'different to anything we've seen before'.
'When you've got eight-year-olds brandishing heads of their father's enemies and doing it so proudly, you've got to realise how much the world has changed. This is a different world to the one we've ever faced,' he told Today.
'We're losing the propaganda war. There is the potential for thousands of kids in Sydney's Western suburbs, in particular, some in Melbourne as well to become radicalised to the point that these other idiots have become radicalised and then they become incredibly dangerous to us.
'I don't understand how any god hates this much.'
Mohamed Elomar, a former Australian boxer, was pictured recently grinning widely as he posed with two decapitated heads
Elomar, who is wanted by the Australian Federal Police for his activities in the Middle East, on Monday renewed his social media attack on his former home country on a new Twitter account after his previous one was shut down
Sharrouf recently posted this picture of a child brandishing a weapon on Twitter, along with threats against Australia.
Elomar, who is wanted by the Australian Federal Police for his activities in the Middle East, on Monday renewed his social media attack on his former home country on a new Twitter account after his previous one was shut down.
The 30-year-old invited wannabe jihadists in Sydney - the city where he was born - to contact him if they want to get their hands on dynamite and grenades.
'Anyone in Sydney who is after explosives (dynamite sticks, C4 sticks, orica mine sticks, grenades ) lots more. If interested DM me,' he wrote.
The appalling pictures posted by Sharrouf continue a pattern of online activity.
In the early hours of July 5, Sharrouf tweeted: 'come and be part of what we have dreamt...for decades'. It was accompanied by a picture of him decked out in army camouflage posing with a gun in front of a white BMW.
This followed Elomar, who took aim at diggers fighting in Iraq, tweeting: 'Look at the end of these Iraqi maliki dogs bunch of girls can't wait to see a Australia soldier cyring [sic] saying bakia.'
Sharrouf, a former Sydney resident, is thought to be fighting with al-Qaeda off-shoot Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Security agencies believe he left Australia using his brother's passport in December, and he will be arrested on terrorism-related charges if he ever returns to Australia.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 'bakia' meant 'he cries' in Arabic and 'maliki' was a term used to describes the Nouri al-Maliki government, which is led by Shiites. The regime is strongly opposed to Sunni extremists who have torn through Iraq's north in the past few weeks.
Another tweet fired off from Sharrouf read: 'My (provisions) are beneath the shade of my sword. We live better than we lived in our country.'
But these uploads barely scratch the surface of the disturbing content found on Sharrouf's Twitter page.
Earlier posts contain pictures so graphic that Daily Mail Australia has chosen not to describe or publish them.
But one that can be shared is of a young child brandishing a gun and smiling with the caption: 'One of dawlas [sic] youngest members' - which was posted late May.
Dawlah is Arabic for country or state.
Other photos show Sharrou
You only have to look on you tube, and you will see young Muslim children as young as 4 years old, shouting kill the Kufa, kill those who insult Islam, that is shocking to see, but now we have a 7 year old boy holding up a severed head, and the look on his face, he might have been holding a big bag of toffee, he doesn't care less that he's holding a severed head, it doesn't bother him one little bit.
Don't for one minute think that children are not talked about this sort of thing in the Mosques or the Muslim schools, In a Muslim school in London, the children are being taught how to cut off a foot and a hand. There is a video showing a 12 year old boy beheading a man, and then holding up the head like he was holding up a trophy.
The Muslim children today wouldn't think twice about attacking someone with a knife, because this is what young Muslim children are taught to do, they are taught to kill the kufa. Things are not getting out of hand because the have got way out of hand, and the governments of each country are doing nothing to stop it, in fact they are letting more and more Muslims in, making the problem even worse, they are to f*****g stupid to realize what is going on.
We are loosing our countries, the whole of Europe is being taken over by Muslims. America and Australia is being taken over by Muslims, and it wont take much to do it, because there are that many of them. The Muslims in the UK only have to start a Muslim Party, and if they won the election, it will all be over for Great Britain.
Muslims have said when they take over, there will be beheadings.Hangings and people being stoned to death, and who will be taking part in the killing of the none Muslims, it will be people like the boy holding up the severed head, and people his age will think it a honer to be involved. Muslims have to conscience and no sympathy for anyone
Muslims are murdering bastards, they love to kill, and they love to follow a false God called Allah, and kill in his name. It was Mohammed who invented the name of Allah, so he could get away with anything he did, so he married a six year old child, and told his followers that Allah had told him it was the right thing to do, and he had intercourse with the child bride when she turned nine years old, again he told his followers that Allah had said he could have intercourse when she is nine years old, and Mohammed said that Allah had told him to tell everyone that the can all take a child bride if they so wish. Mohammed was a peadophile, and Muslims follow every word that is written in the Koran, so that makes all Muslims paedophiles. Muslim men grooming underage girls, filling them with drink and drugs, and then raping them and passing them round their family and friends, some girls were as young as eleven years old.
Muslims are teaching Muslim children how to be terrorists, they are taught in the Mosques, in the Muslim schools and in the home, by the time they are 7 to 8 years old, the are ready to kill because the are trained to hold a gun and they are taught how to use it, this is going on in almost every Mosque in the UK. All Muslims should be rounded up and shipped out, weather they were born here or not, it's either that, or there will be bloodshed, because the indigenous people are waking up, and the British people once more will find their backbone, so let the war that is to come commence, because there is no escape, and the war will happen.