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'''Sex police''' is a police force in a theocracy that is funded, legally authorized, and/or recognized by the government to enforce [[Islamic]] morality. |
'''Sex police''' is a police force in a theocracy that is funded, legally authorized, and/or recognized by the government to enforce [[Islamic]] morality. |
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'''Mutaween''', '''religious police''', '''clerical police''', '''moral police''', '''morality police''', or '''hisbah groups'''<ref>http://www.nigeriafirst.org/printer_406.shtml</ref> are synonyms for the sex police. |
'''Mutaween''', '''religious police''', '''clerical police''', '''moral police''', '''morality police''', or '''hisbah groups'''<ref>http://www.nigeriafirst.org/printer_406.shtml</ref> are synonyms for the sex police. |
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*In 2001, Afghanistan was a totalitarian nightmare -- a land where girls could not go to school, where '''religious police''' roamed the streets, where women were publicly whipped, where there were summary executions in Kabul's soccer stadium. |
*In 2001, Afghanistan was a totalitarian nightmare -- a land where girls could not go to school, where '''religious police''' roamed the streets, where women were publicly whipped, where there were summary executions in Kabul's soccer stadium. |
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Revision as of 23:41, 23 June 2007
Sex police is a police force in a theocracy that is funded, legally authorized, and/or recognized by the government to enforce Islamic morality.
Mutaween, religious police, clerical police, moral police, morality police, or hisbah groups[1] are synonyms for the sex police.
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- In 2001, Afghanistan was a totalitarian nightmare -- a land where girls could not go to school, where religious police roamed the streets, where women were publicly whipped, where there were summary executions in Kabul's soccer stadium.
- A member of the religious police cannot be judged.
- An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia, Saudi woman sues moral police May 2007
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- Iran police in fashion crackdown
- Old Iran... ...Vs. New, July 1998
- Generation ex-communicated September 2002
- Islamo-morality Police Busy In Iran - City Tackles Those 'Titillating Mannequins'
- Iranians arrested for net dating March 2003
- Malaysia's Home-Grown Taliban 2005