Religious police

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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• The police must strongly press on with the 'social security plan' and avoid seasonal and temporary initiatives so that its goals are implemented in society.
  • Ali Khamenei, "Iran leader urges police to keep up social vice crackdown". AFP hosted at Google. 7 November 2007. 

• 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. 

See also

• Hijab

Countries with religious police

• Afghanistan (no longer active since the the ouster of the Talibs)
• Iran (all provinces)
• Malaysia (some states)
• Nigeria (some states)
• Saudi Arabia (all provinces)
• United States (all states, AKA: Vice Bureau police)

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
• Robert Tait (6 August 2007). "Iranian morals police arrest 230 in raid on 'satanist' rave". The Guardian.