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[[Afghanistan]] (1996-2001) • [[Nigeria]] (some northern states)<br> |
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'''Religious police''' (aka '''clerical police''', '''morality police''', '''moral police''', or '''sex police''') are groups that are funded, legally authorized, and/or recognized by a government, frequently a theocracy, to enforce morality. '''[[w:Mutaween|Mutaween]]''' or '''[[w:Hisbah|hisbah groups]]''' are the religious police who enforce ''[[sharia]]'' law within Islamic [[theocracies]]. |
'''Religious police''' (aka '''clerical police''', '''morality police''', '''moral police''', or '''sex police''') are groups that are funded, legally authorized, and/or recognized by a government, frequently a theocracy, to enforce morality. '''[[w:Mutaween|Mutaween]]''' or '''[[w:Hisbah|hisbah groups]]''' are the religious police who enforce ''[[sharia]]'' law within Islamic [[theocracies]]. |
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Iran • Malaysia • Saudi Arabia |
Religious police (aka clerical police, morality police, moral police, or sex police) are groups that are funded, legally authorized, and/or recognized by a government, frequently a theocracy, to enforce morality. Mutaween or hisbah groups are the religious police who enforce sharia law within Islamic theocracies.
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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.
- The religious police should be confined to religious guidance, with no powers of enforcement.
- "Religious police: Saudi readers' views". BBC News. 30 July 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-30.
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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