The Islamic State is not innovating in this any more than they are in anything else. Saudi Arabia and Iran, both Sharia states, have religious police now to make sure their people stay in Sharia line.
“Islamic State creates police force in northwest Iraq,” Reuters, September 19, 2014:
Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq’s northwest Nineveh province have created a police force to “implement the orders of the religious judiciary,” according to a well-known militant Islamist website.
Photos on the website showed armed men in black clothing with “Islamic Police Nineveh State” printed on the arm. The police forces were in freshly painted police cars and one photo showed militiamen on a river boat.
It was not clear when the photos were posted or when the police force was established.
The text on the website said the force would “maintain order and arrest culprits and the corrupt.” The text said it would be different from police forces in other states, which it described as “a tool to suppress dissent.”
Residents in Nineveh told Reuters the police’s main duty appears to be to detain people they consider opposed to their cause, however.
The police have set up checkpoints on roads and conducted house raids, the residents said. One photo showed a blindfolded man being escorted into a prison.
Islamic State took the Iraqi cities of Mosul, in Nineveh, and Tikrit in June and has announced an Islamic Caliphate in areas it controls in Iraq and Syria.
Its fighters have shocked the world with execution-style killings of Sunnis, Shi’ites, Christians, Yazidis and Kurds. Western governments and Islamic countries fear their citizens who are fighting for Islamic State could threaten national security if they return home.
U.S. President Barack Obama has launched air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein urged world powers this month to protect women and minorities targeted by the group, saying its fighters were trying to create a “house of blood.”
Islamic State has gradually taken steps to govern since taking over Nineveh this year. In July, Islamic State told Christians in Mosul to convert to Islam or pay a religious tax….
As per Qur’an 9:29, which tells Muslims to fight against the People of the Book “until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.”
mortimer says
The main duty of the Islamic police is to discriminate, persecute and suppress freedom of expression.
This is pure Islam, just like in Saudi Arabia.
mortimer says
Saudi Arabia has the Mutaween (religious police). Iran has the Basij and Afghanistan and Gaza Strip have the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
Do you see a difference?
ibn Muslim says
Not everything that IS does is bad. With a police force it will not deteriorate into a failed state. Thy kingdom come (Caliphate), thy will be done (Sharia) 😉
somehistory says
It’s already a failure. Failing to do the right thing, failing to make the right choices, failing to treat people as The Creator meant for all to be treated, failing to tell the truth…about anything. Failing to allow free moral choice, failing to allow any free will, failure to acknowledge that their *prophet* is false…what did he ever say that came true?… and that he was a murdering pedo who had to force children to be with him as *wife* cause he was a failure as a human creature.
It is a failed state run by a bunch of failures.
mortimer says
You’re delusional.
somehistory says
And more thing: God will bring in His Kingdom and will do His Will on earth.
This *is* stuff has nothing to do with anything Holy or righteous and will be judged by the True God in His Holy Heaven.
Salah says
“Thy kingdom come (Caliphate), thy will be done (Sharia)”
Have you heard about the Lord’s Prayer of…Muhammad?
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/04/lords-prayer-of-muhammad.html
Your “prophet” was lucky copyright laws were not in place then!!!
Angemon says
Right, they’re not going dissents, they’re going after “corrupts”:
quran 5:33 – Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land.
ApolloSpeaks says
WAIT A MINUTE
Obama said that ISIS ideology wasn’t true Islam and that it has no vision beyond unIslamically slaughtering people-as if killing for ISIS was an end in itself and it was a pure killing machine disguised as Islam . And here they are setting up a Sharia state for the living with morality police to enforce Islamic law. Looks like they’re engaged in serious state building. And what kind of nonIslamic state enforces Islamic law? Can history provide any examples?
Click http://www.apollospeaks.com to learn what Obama means by a true Islamic state.
carlos danger says
I would love to see more people refer to the “Islamic State” as the caliphate.
The Caliphate is larger in dthe territory it controls than some European and African nations. It has a supreme leader (the Caliph). It has a legal system, and a formidable standing army. Let’s consider calling it what it is rather than allow it to shelter behind “ISIS” or “ISIL”. A frank recognition of its nature and agenda would help those of us who wish to “deal” with it sooner rather than later.
Also please consider arming yourselves and becoming proficient in the use of the weapons you own.
Just sayin’.
fair_dinkum says
watch the bloody execution rate rise.
its just cart blanche to anarchy ..
i really wish iran would get directly involved. itll be contained for years.
fair_dinkum says
ie theyll be too busy killing each other to threaten much else