ISIS beheads a Libyan soldier outside a mosque for 'education purposes'

The savage execution took place in the northern port city of Derna, which was seized by ISIS militants in October last year as the country tore itself apart in civil war.

The chilling photographs show regime soldier Abdulnabi Shurgawi wearing an orange jumpsuit as he is dragged into a public square and executed.

A second shot shows a depraved militant holding the man's head aloft while young boys are allowed to crowd around his bloodied corpse for what ISIS described as 'education purposes'.

The first of the two images shows Shurgawi, who fought for the internationally recognised Libyan government based in Tobruk, being led out into a square by a group of black-clad, masked militants.

It is believed he was captured by ISIS earlier this week and charged with 'apostasy', which essentially meant not practicing Islam according to ISIS' barbaric interpretation.

Several heavily armed jihadis stand on the steps of the local mosque as Shurgawi is forced to his knees and beheaded by a militant wearing an olive green scarf wrapped around his head.

A second sickening image shows the militant standing over Shurgawi's bloodied corpse and holding the soldier's severed head aloft in celebration.

Crowded around the executioner are a group of young boys, some of whom gaze with interest at Shurgawi's body, while others appear to be posing for photographs.

The images were released by ISIS' local 'Wilayat Barqa' terror cell, who added that the children had been allowed to see the brutal murder up close for 'education purposes'. 

Within hours of the execution photographs emerging online, an unknown Libyan cartoonist released a chilling illustration captioned 'Derna and the future of its children'.

The cartoon - which has been widely shared on Libyan social media - shows a masked executioner beheading a man as he stands in front of a group of smiling children. Each of the children is seen holding their own knife which they are using to practice cutting the head off of a doll.

As well as forcing children to become child soldiers, ISIS regularly exposes boys to brutal executions in the hope of breeding a generation of men for whom life is cheap and brutal murder is accepted.

The idea is that, with a callous attitude towards killing and relentless brainwashing with murderous and anti-Western propaganda, ISIS is slowly creating a jihadi networks that could last generations.

Libya erupted into civil war following the overthrow and killing of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Last year the country's internationally recongnised government was forced to leave the capital Tripoli by the conservative Islamist group Libya Dawn who have set up an opposition government.

The internationally recognised government now has its headquarters in the eastern city of Tobruk, with militant groups such as ISIS exploiting the chaos and power vacuum in cities such as Derna and Sirte to establish Libyan strongholds.

(dailymail.co.uk)