Islamic State orders women to wear full-face veil or risk 'serious punishment'

Islamic State, the jihadist group that seized large swathes of northern Iraq last month, has warned women in the city of Mosul to wear full-face veils or risk severe punishment.

The Sunni insurgents, who have declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria and have threatened to march on Baghdad, also listed guidelines on how veils and clothes should be worn, part of a campaign to violently impose their radical brand of Islam.

"The conditions imposed on her clothes and grooming was only to end the pretext of debauchery resulting from grooming and overdressing," said Islamic State - formerly known as Isis - in a statement. This is not a restriction on her freedom but to prevent her from falling into humiliation and vulgarity or to be a theatre for the eyes of those who are looking."

A cleric in Mosul told Reuters that Islamic State gunmen had shown up at his mosque and ordered him to read their warning on loudspeakers when worshippers gather.

"Anyone who is not committed to this duty and is motivated by glamour will be subject to accountability and severe punishment to protect society from harm and to maintain the necessities of religion and protect it from debauchery," said the Islamic State.

The insurgents have been systematically stamping out any religious or cultural influences they deem non-Islamic since their lightning sweep through the north.  

US military and Iraqi security officials estimate the Islamic State has at least 3,000 fighters in Iraq, rising towards 20,000 when new recruits since last month's advance are included.

The Islamic State provided guidelines on how women should dress in Mosul, one of Iraq's biggest cities. The hands and feet must be covered. Wear shapeless clothes that don't hug the body. No perfume.

The insurgents run vice patrols in Mosul which answer to a morality committee which has shut Mosul's college of fine arts and physical education, knocked down statues of famous poets and banned smoking and waterpipes.

Women have been told to never walk unaccompanied by a male guardian. The Islamic State even ordered shopkeepers to cover their store mannequins with full-face veils.

A man was recently whipped in public for sexually harassing a woman.

Islamic State militants view Iraq's majority Shi'ites as infidels who deserve to be killed and have told Christians to either convert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face death.

Islamic State's radical views have alarmed many Iraqis, but there are no signs that their leaders will be able to regain control of captured areas anytime soon.  

Since the army's virtual collapse in the face of the Sunni militant onslaught, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Shi'ite militias have emerged as the only forces that seem capable of challenging the Islamic State.  Political paralysis has eroded faith in Iraqi leaders. Politicians have been in deadlock over forming a new government since an election in April, and the next step – choosing a prime minister – may prove far more difficult.

Iraq's parliament elected a senior Kurdish lawmaker president on Thursday, a significant step in a delayed process to create a government capable of uniting the country and countering insurgents.

Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ruled since the election in a caretaker capacity, defying demands from minority Sunnis and Kurds that he step aside for a less divisive figure. Even some fellow Shi'ites oppose his bid for a third term.

Critics say Maliki has alienated Sunnis, deepening sectarian divisions that have benefited the Islamic State.

Original Quill wrote:And men must wear thin ties and no button-down collars.

Ridiculous!

gerber wrote:

Original Quill wrote:And men must wear thin ties and no button-down collars.

Ridiculous!

Are cufflinks allowed.  A man must be properly dressed

Lone Wolf wrote: 

LET US all remember that the "Islamist State" is nothing more than an ultra-extremist gang of brainless bully boys forever eternally stoned off their faces on their opium pipes and ganja weed, the pointy end of the ISIS movement...

WHICH in itself seems to be the arse-end schism of that Islamic Brotherhood group of whackjobs, leftovers from the "Arab Spring" all dreamin' of one day being full-blown al Qaeda operatives..
ONCE they have grown up. IF they haven't carelessly blown themselves away before hand..  

Lone Wolf wrote: 

LET US all remember that the "Islamist State" is nothing more than an ultra-extremist gang of brainless bully boys forever eternally stoned off their faces on their opium pipes and ganja weed, the pointy end of the ISIS movement...

WHICH in itself seems to be the arse-end schism of that Islamic Brotherhood group of whackjobs, leftovers from the "Arab Spring" all dreamin' of one day being full-blown al Qaeda operatives..
ONCE they have grown up. IF they haven't carelessly blown themselves away before hand..  

gerber wrote:" CULTURE


[size=36]Iraq’s ISIS orders female genital mutilation (FMG)[/size]

Thursday, July 24, 2014 5:55 PM

Under Isis, Iraqi women again face an old nightmare: violence and repression. ISIS ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation (FGM)

Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women betweenthe ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a UN official said Thursday.
The UN’s second most senior official in Iraq, Jacqueline Badcock, said, “It is a fatwa (or religious edict) from ISIS, we learnt about it thttp://yalibnan.com/2014/07/24/iraqs-isis-orders-genital-mutilation/his morning. We have no precise numbers.”






http://yalibnan.com/2014/07/24/iraqs-isis-orders-genital-mutilation/


Who is thanking Tong and George now ?

A "fatwa" by the extremist group Islamic State ordering women in areas of Iraq under its control to undergo female genital mutilation is now thought to be a hoax.

The supposed order by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head or self-styled "Caliph" of the Islamic State, was publicised at a United Nations press conference in Geneva on Thursday.

The UN's humanitarian coordinator in Iraq Jacqueline Badcock, said she was investigating reports drawn to her attention of the directive, which came in the wake of a series of radical actions by IS in northern Iraq and the city of Mosul, Iraq's second biggest, since it swept across much of the country in June.

However, UN officials insist they have no evidence as to whether the claim had been verified, and it was debunked by both independent analysts and supporters of Islamic State itself.

"It's 100 per cent not true," said Michael Stephens, who has been monitoring Islamic State's advance for the Royal United Services Institute, a military affairs think tank. He said the copy of the "fatwa" or religious directive circulated in recent days on the social media, from which the reports seem to emanate, was not written in language that would likely to be used by the group.

feelthelove wrote:

gerber wrote:" CULTURE


[size=36]Iraq’s ISIS orders female genital mutilation (FMG)[/size]

Thursday, July 24, 2014 5:55 PM

Under Isis, Iraqi women again face an old nightmare: violence and repression. ISIS ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation (FGM)

Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women betweenthe ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a UN official said Thursday.
The UN’s second most senior official in Iraq, Jacqueline Badcock, said, “It is a fatwa (or religious edict) from ISIS, we learnt about it thttp://yalibnan.com/2014/07/24/iraqs-isis-orders-genital-mutilation/his morning. We have no precise numbers.”






http://yalibnan.com/2014/07/24/iraqs-isis-orders-genital-mutilation/


Who is thanking Tong and George now ?

The Telegraph are reporting that this is likely to be a hoax, I hope so Gerber   

A "fatwa" by the extremist group Islamic State ordering women in areas of Iraq under its control to undergo female genital mutilation is now thought to be a hoax.

The supposed order by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head or self-styled "Caliph" of the Islamic State, was publicised at a United Nations press conference in Geneva on Thursday.

The UN's humanitarian coordinator in Iraq Jacqueline Badcock, said she was investigating reports drawn to her attention of the directive, which came in the wake of a series of radical actions by IS in northern Iraq and the city of Mosul, Iraq's second biggest, since it swept across much of the country in June.

However, UN officials insist they have no evidence as to whether the claim had been verified, and it was debunked by both independent analysts and supporters of Islamic State itself.

"It's 100 per cent not true," said Michael Stephens, who has been monitoring Islamic State's advance for the Royal United Services Institute, a military affairs think tank. He said the copy of the "fatwa" or religious directive circulated in recent days on the social media, from which the reports seem to emanate, was not written in language that would likely to be used by the group.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10991023/Islamic-State-fatwa-ordering-FGM-likely-to-be-a-hoax.html

gerber wrote:

feelthelove wrote:


The Telegraph are reporting that this is likely to be a hoax, I hope so Gerber   



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10991023/Islamic-State-fatwa-ordering-FGM-likely-to-be-a-hoax.html

I do hope and pray it is.

But as anorm the Telegraph are usually very accurate.  The standard of their journalism is quite a lot higher than the rag tops.