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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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* Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think Christians get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, ''am I a good person?'' ''[…]'' It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God? |
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** [[w:Anita Blake|Anita Blake]], to Richard Zeeman |
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| author = [[Laurell K. Hamilton]] |
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| title = The Harlequin |
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| date = June 2007 |
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| publisher = Berkley Books |
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| id = ISBN 978-0-425-21724-5 |
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| chapter = chapter 44 |
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| pages = pp. 391-392 |
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==External links== |
== External links == |
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3887311.stm Iran police in fashion crackdown] |
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3887311.stm Iran police in fashion crackdown] |
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*[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988666,00.html?promoid=googlep Old Iran... ...Vs. New], July 1998 |
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* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988666,00.html?promoid=googlep Old Iran... ...Vs. New], July 1998 |
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* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,785460,00.html Generation ex-communicated] September 2002 |
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*[http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2005/11/islamo-morality.php Islamo-morality Police Busy In Iran - City Tackles Those 'Titillating Mannequins'] |
* [http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2005/11/islamo-morality.php Islamo-morality Police Busy In Iran - City Tackles Those 'Titillating Mannequins'] |
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2813953.stm Iranians arrested for net dating] March 2003 |
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2813953.stm Iranians arrested for net dating] March 2003 |
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*[http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2005/malaysias_homegrown_taliban.html Malaysia's Home-Grown Taliban] 2005 |
* [http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2005/malaysias_homegrown_taliban.html Malaysia's Home-Grown Taliban] 2005 |
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===Video clips=== |
=== Video clips === |
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*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-635284816900506895&q Video of Iranian village youth explaining how Basijis arrested him while he was hanging out with his friends] |
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-635284816900506895&q Video of Iranian village youth explaining how Basijis arrested him while he was hanging out with his friends] |
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zYKlSeIbrw&mode=related&search= Arrest of Iranian girl for HEJAB] April 2007 |
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zYKlSeIbrw&mode=related&search= Arrest of Iranian girl for HEJAB] April 2007 |
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Revision as of 08:31, 7 July 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.
- "President Bush Discusses Progress in Afghanistan, Global War on Terror". News & Policies. Whitehouse.gov (February 15, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
- A member of the religious police cannot be judged.
- An unidentified Islamic court in Saudi Arabia, date unspecified
- "Saudi woman sues moral police". AlJazeera.net. 12 May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
- [The religious police] have taken on the role of the policeman, judge and jury.
- "Saudi 'virtue police' trial delay". BBC News. 23 June 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
- Maybe God isn't the sex police, Richard. Sometimes I think Christians get all hung up on the sex thing because it's easier to worry about sex than to ask yourself, am I a good person? […] It makes it easy to be cruel, because as long as you're not fucking around, nothing you do can be that bad. Is that really all you think of God?
- Anita Blake, to Richard Zeeman
- Laurell K. Hamilton (June 2007). "chapter 44". The Harlequin (1st edition ed.). Berkley Books. pp. pp. 391-392. ISBN 978-0-425-21724-5.
See also
References
External links
- 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