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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 force Islamic morality.

Mutaween, religious police, clerical police, moral police, or morality police 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.
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/02/20070215-1.html# George W. Bush, February 2007

See also

hijab

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

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