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Syria: Women face whipping and execution for breaking Sharia dress code

Mar 9, 2014 5:12 pm By Robert Spencer

niqab12These are the Islamic supremacist rebels that Barack Obama is backing: they’re institutionalizing the oppression of women, imposing the Qur’an-based tax that is the hallmark of the subjugation of the Christians, and whipping or killing anyone who gets out of line. Once again we see the lie of Islamic apologists such as Faisal Abdul Rauf and Reza Aslan, who insist that Sharia is benign or so amorphous as to defy characterization. Actually, wherever it is implemented, it is pretty much the same — and people suffer.

“Syrian Women Face Whipping and Execution for Breaking Sharia Dress Code,” by Lilian Anekwe for International Business Times, March 9:

Women in Syria face whippings and even execution under a harsh regime being enforced by Islamist rebels, it has been claimed.

Rebels from the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (Isis) have imposed a harsh regime, flogging women who break a strict dress code, imposing a tax on Christians and banning any behaviour deemed immodest or sinful.

Isis drove Syrian rebels from the free Syrian Army and the Al-Nusra Front out of the city of Raqqa, in northern Syria about 99 miles east of Aleppo earlier this year, and began transforming what had been one of Syria’s more liberal cities into a hardline Islamist mini-state modelled on its own version of Sharia law.

One woman was allegedly sentenced to 20 lashes after an Isis “morality patrol” saw her holding hands with a male cousin. Another woman aged 19 was sentenced to 40 lashes after an Isis officer saw a picture of her on Facebook wearing a short-sleeved blouse, it has been claimed.

Everyone female aged 10 and over in Raqqa must cover themselves with the traditional abaya (the traditional cloak) and niqab (face covering), and Isis has decreed that no features should be displayed that are suggestive, vain or attention-seeking.

Women are also banned from talking loudly in the street, walking in public without a male chaperone (their father, brother or husband) and are not allowed to leave home after dark.

Everyone in the city has been banned from playing music in any public place and smoking, and the laws are reinforced by posters declaring that “a woman’s modesty is her beauty” and by forcing men to go to the mosque and pray five times a day.

Churches have been burned and desecrated. Christians in the city have been banned from showing any sign or symbol of their religion and must pay a tax to remain in the city and avoid violent attacks.

Speaking who spoke secretly and anonymously to The Sunday Times, women in Raqqa spoke of living under the threat of violence and murder.

One woman said: “It’s true that in Islam the veil is a must, but Islam doesn’t impose the niqab.”

Another said: “There have been whippings of women because of this. Some women have even been executed. It’s become a case of living under the sword. Either one has to dress in the niqab by force of be executed.”

According to a report by the World Economic Forum, the gender gap between men and women in Syria ranked 133rd of 136 countries in terms of opportunities like equal access to human rights like education and healthcare. Female healthy life expectancy is 65 and 11% of women marry between the ages of 15 and 19.

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  1. wildjew says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 5:19 pm

    testing?

  2. Jay Boo says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm

    Muslims must pray five times a day with an elaborate DISPLAY
    or else their selfish unfaithful Allah might decide to walk away.
    However Muslim women must be hidden away with the words
    “There is no god”
    “but Muhammad is a prophet”

    Exodus from Medina
    Desert spirits spoke in twisted verse, a dance of words to recite, to recite.
    Medina’s false prophet this rehearsed in a cave near Mecca veiled by night.
    But the angel Gabriel saw his descent, and said “Pawn of Satan turn, repent, repent.”
    But, sharia’s verse planted its infected creed fertilized by this false prophet’s made-up dream.
    A vain attempt to partner with God almighty was dredged up from the lowest pit of his vanity.
    Bloodied hands are now washed before prayers that incite
    as hate speech is masked as devotion to recite, to recite.
    Along Medina’s “fastest growing” path straight to hell
    “Nine Eleven” admirers grovel beneath Satan’s will.
    Jihadists then bow not to God but to Islam’s unholy weapon,
    as false humility makes its pilgrimage to Satan’s deception.
    True infidels, they use God’s name as a deadly curse.
    Blasphemy crawls from sharia’s stockpile of vile, veiled verse.

  3. SKevin says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    This story is from several weeks ago.

    http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/gay-syrians-are-being-blackmailed-by-jihadists

  4. EYESOPEN says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 3:55 pm

    Of course where izlam raises its ugly head and its “sharia” law expect misery, misogyny and despair to follow. My prayers out to the Christians – especially women – forced to live in an izlamic hell hole. (But of course these are not the people our Usurper-in-Chief will take into our country as “refugees”.)

  5. Islamisdeath says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 4:44 pm

    Where is the muslim apologist “watchDawg” on this? Totally silent.
    Imam obama must be so proid.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 10:44 pm

    The reason Muslims pray five times a day is because they wish to prove Muslims are more devout than other religions or so they would have us believe.
    On the other hand, if their religion is built on a frail hoax then praying five times a day would be the only way to sustain the illusion backed up with rationalizing an excuse for self-righteous aggression.
    Without violence and ‘duty’ dogma Islam starves to death.

  7. nabi sange says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 1:15 am

    Is this a religion of rahmatan lil alamin?

  8. Jeff Brown says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 5:43 am

    Every Muslim that’s died till now; if he could come back would tell the world to put their faith in the blood of Jesus. To bad they cain’t seem to get the message while they’re here.

    • Aliya says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 9:11 am

      The dead muslims lost not only their lives but their souls . All lived in times where the true God was known, but they rejected the truth for a violent cult. The blood of their victims cries out for justice.

  9. Docs357 says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 10:32 am

    Ovomit is one of them. Gives them whatever they ask for including. Abrahams tanks now the have the tech. That goes with it and Fb16 fighter jets. These liberals have never lifted a finger in defense of the innocent Christians and Jews being murdered. I believe there is a special place in hell for Christ haters and murders of Jews and Christians Bon Voyage Barry and friends.

  10. john C says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    Muslims by their very actions around the world are going to [praise to our Lord JesusChrist] self destruct and will never enjoy ever lasting life ,God is great.Love to all peoples except the Islam scum that are here waisting space!!!!

  11. gravenimage says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 2:26 am

    …began transforming what had been one of Syria’s more liberal cities into a hardline Islamist mini-state modelled on its own version of Sharia law.
    …………………………….

    “Its own version of Sharia law”? And yet, this is like every other “version” of brutal Shari’ah.

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