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==Religious Police in Islamic States== | ==Religious Police in Islamic States== | ||
===Afghanistan=== | ===Afghanistan=== | ||
The Islamic Emirate of | The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan imposed a strict version of Shari'ah enforced by the religious police. | ||
In a February 2007 speech at the American Enterprise Institute, George W. Bush said, "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."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070712024646/http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/02/20070215-1.html President Bush Discusses Progress in Afghanistan, Global War on Terror] - White House News, February 15, 2007</ref> | In a February 2007 speech at the American Enterprise Institute, George W. Bush said, "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."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070712024646/http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/02/20070215-1.html President Bush Discusses Progress in Afghanistan, Global War on Terror] - White House News, February 15, 2007</ref> | ||
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===Iran=== | ===Iran=== | ||
Since the Islamic Revolution, | Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has had a religious police that punishes offenders relentlessly. Jamal Karimi-Rad, in 2006, has vowed to work with other governmental organizations and continue the prosecution of social vice<ref>[http://www.command-post.org/nk/2_archives/013550.html The Morality Police In Iran] - The Command Post, July 12, 2004</ref> or "moral corruption". The Islamic officials use words like Western and un-Islamic as their talking points to justify such arrests.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1098931.stm Iran crackdown on New Year revellers] - BBC News, January 3, 2001</ref><ref>Robert Tait - [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/apr/20/iran.roberttait Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in 'un-Islamic' dress] - The Guardian, April 20, 2006</ref><ref>Robert Tait - [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jul/14/iran.roberttait Iran's fashion police put on a show of chadors to stem west's cultural invasion] - The Guardian, July 14, 2006</ref> The Islamic government's obsession with the people's behavior and dress even reached a point when it would employ female religious police who "with a razor took off the lipstick from the lips" of other female citizens.<ref>Nasrin Alavi - [http://www.softskull.com/files/WeAreIran_SampleChapterLo.pdf We are Iran] - Portobello Books Ltd, 2006, ISBN 9781846270031</ref> | ||
Women are required by the country's Islamic law to cover their hair and wear long, loose clothing to "protect their modesty".<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBLA66590320070716?pageNumber=1 Iran police step up crackdown on unIslamic dress] - Reuters, Jul 16, 2007</ref> | Women are required by the country's Islamic law to cover their hair and wear long, loose clothing to "protect their modesty".<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSBLA66590320070716?pageNumber=1 Iran police step up crackdown on unIslamic dress] - Reuters, Jul 16, 2007</ref> | ||
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===Other countries=== | ===Other countries=== | ||
There are morality police forces in other places, too. For example, they can be found in | There are morality police forces in other places, too. For example, they can be found in Indonesia,<ref>[http://www.indonesiamatters.com/1036/unislamic-behaviour/ UnIslamic Behaviour] - Indonesia Matters, December 27, 2006</ref> northern Nigeria, Malaysia,<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSP27770920070706 Singer draws ire of religious police], ''Reuters'', Jul 6, 2007</ref> the Gaza Strip,<ref>Khaled Abu Toameh - [http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1246443716574 They accused me of laughing in public] - Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2009</ref><ref>Jonathan Spyer - [http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1254163537553&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Analysis: The Islamic republic of Gaza] - Jerusalem Post, September 29, 2009</ref> and elsewhere. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||