Al-Shabaab says Islam considers people to be adults at the age of 14 . The Somalia Islamist are responding to Islam criticism . `` They see injured and dead fighters , many of them children , coming back from the battlefield , '' Hassan added . The group says Alfurqan is using children as young as 10 as cannon fodder . Mogadishu 's government denies intentionally recruiting child soldiers .
Al-Shabaab says Islam considers people to be adults at the age of 14 . The Somalia Islamist are responding to Islam criticism . The group says Alfurqan is using children as young as 10 as cannon fodder . Mogadishu 's government denies intentionally recruiting child soldiers .