“Local sources told SOHR militants told football organisers referees would be banned because their decisions ‘do not judge according to what Allah has revealed’ and are ‘a violation of Allah’s command and the Sunnah.'”
One might almost get the crazy idea that the Islamic State had something to do with Islam. Good thing we have John Kerry and the Pope to tell us otherwise.
“Isis bans football referees in Syria because they enforce ‘laws of Fifa not Sharia,'” by Lizzie Dearden, Independent, August 31, 2016:
Isis has reportedly outlawed football referees in one of its Syrian strongholds because they implement Fifa rules “in violation of the commands of Allah”.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory or Human Rights (SOHR) said commanders had also drawn up a list of rules detailing how injured players can be compensated by their opponents under Sharia law.
Monitors reported that the so-called Islamic State had declared the implementation of international football rules “illegitimate” in Deir ez-Zor governorate.
Local sources told SOHR militants told football organisers referees would be banned because their decisions “do not judge according to what Allah has revealed” and are “a violation of Allah’s command and the Sunnah”.
A system of “Qisas” for injured footballers was also brought in, referring to the retributive justice system enacted under Sharia law, where victims can claim compensation or exact revenge.
The reported ban was decided by courts established by Isis to rule on issues of Islamic jurisprudence according to its extremist ideology….

nicu says
But why a soccer championship in Quatar then ????
bleeps says
That’s what I was thinking! But checking preliminaries of World cup 2018 I realized Australia didn’t win home in Jordan! Why is with islamic nations so high in the table of this competition?! Is it fear of bombs and attacks of away team so big they give up matches to home teams so fans won’t butcher them?! Just check the preliminary teams in second stage and be stupifyied by the results which are in concordance with the violence of the home team. I hope everybody gets the point! http://www.flashscore.com/soccer/world/world-cup/?t=fFsiH75r&ts=bBQew0Vn
particolor says
Soccer was Big Time in Ancient Persia and throughout the Middle East !! YEAH Right !!
Allan was a Super Star !! 🙂
J D S says
I suppose this means that an isis fighter will be appointed as the ref…… Just shows the stupidity in isis as well as the whole of Islam…Can there be more stupidity in Islam?….Sure there can……..Just watch.
Jeremy Steering says
Why Qatar? Try: “money talks”. And oil money shouts louder. It’s insanity, footballers and fans will have to endure desert heat because it was considered “time”, (that is, politically correct, and let’s give in to their demands) to give the tournament to a muslim country.
J-pal says
Interesting…shows exactly how the mind of “IS” works. So, how about boxing? The system of IS is only “revenge”, because you always can blame someone else for what happened to you – a “Perpetuum Mobile of Revenge” – will exterminate Huamnity. What will be left…? Cockroaches…
Keith says
Are they going to give us Allah’s rules of football then?
Jack Diamond says
Something like this: ISIS Plays Soccer With Severed Heads
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/isis-plays-soccer-with-severed-heads/
Of course the Taliban were doing this back in 2013.
Clearly, Allah has laws concerning soccer that will revolutionize the game.
gravenimage says
Jack, I was wondering what soccer played by Muslims without refs would look like, and I immediately thought of them playing soccer with the severed heads of their victims. *Ugh*.
Here’s a video (Caution! Very disturbing images!):
http://shoebat.com/2013/12/29/muslims-play-soccer-heads-victims/
J D S says
Why have they not just outlawed soccer or any game for that matter?????
Jay Boo says
An American Football (not soccer) player who sports a Muslim style beard but (supposedly not Muslim) refuses to stand for the National Anthem and other traitors join him.
Maybe Americans should outlaw advertising for all unpatriotic NLF teams.
There is nothing honorable about the NFL or the Super Bowl anymore. The NFL is being infiltrated by Super Bowl MO HO’s.
Unfortunately, rather than working out at the gym many couch-potato American men with limp noodles in their pants fund the disloyal NFL scum millionaire players on silly named teams like the (‘Broncos’ Lions, Dolphins, etc.) in order to have a momentary ejaculation of vicarious virility rooting for hired athletes who usually come from places far removed from their employer city moniker.
Go Team!
Go Rats of the NFL
mortimer says
Keith wrote: “Are they going to give us Allah’s rules of football then?”
Under Allah’s rules only Muslims are allowed to win or score goals.
Phil Horaia says
Perhaps in Islam you only score goats (!)
marina says
OH No!
Allah has made so many rules for his followers. How come he didn’t make any rules about football, Probably because football is fun and Islam = you are not supposed to have fun.
Cecilia Ellis says
Amazingly, neither the Qur’an nor the Hadith refers to Allah’s rules to be enforced by soccer referees. Not that such an omission would be notable . . . as other omissions include Shariah guidance for judging Olympic events, the Super Bowl, and March Madness. What on earth was Allah, who knows all, thinking when he failed to dictate his mandates for governing sports competition? ?
Sog says
If we’re lucky someone will “find” a transcription of the 7th century verbal rules for Soccer, perhaps at an archaeological site in Medina. I’m sure Allah didn’t overlook something so important. How are the Jahadis gong to impress their Virgins in Paradise if not by also being Soccer Stars?
Cecilia Ellis says
Hilarious, Sog! ?
PRCS says
I wonder what those virgins think more impressive–a soccer “Star” who dies of old age or a young jihadi whose violent suicide resulted in the murder of innocents?
Adrian says
O, my!
“A system of “Qisas” for injured footballers was also brought in, referring to the retributive justice system enacted under Sharia law, where victims can claim compensation or exact revenge.”
No more corner kicks or yellow cards… no you can do to your opponent exactly what Mohammed would have done.
biff says
Islamic idiocy knows no bounds.
Angemon says
If people’s lives weren’t on the line, this would be hilarious. A bad joke, but hilarious nonetheless.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Angemon.
pdxnag says
They revel at maximizing their stupidity. Is that a man-made law too, to be as stupid as you can be? The suicide bomber is the winner in this contest.
Sog says
They have 1.5 Billion adherents. Mind boggling. All this is incompatible with modern information systems. The details of the Koran is at all our fingertips. I’ts all obvious to open minded people of the current generations. The king wears no clothes.
We can’t let Hilary, her handlers, and her minions continue the charade, and degrade all human life for the sake of their own power,wealth and their thrill for Governance. They’re exposed like never before.
Those with current economic power achieved it in the past, and now sit on low growth markets with high market share. That’s the classic Market definition of a “Cash Cow” (Google “Boston Consulting Group Matrix”). What they’ll do is impede market challenges in parallel markets, erect barriers to competitive entry, and thus stifle economic growth. They’re doing that now. An Example is the Oil Market. We’ll never see a doubling of product sold, yet can very well see a doubling (or greater) of revenues.
Employment goes through the roof when the elite are forced to compete with challenges from the upper middle class and need to defend their markets. The scramble for market share causes employment increases. We’ve seen it in Information technologies where the Elite were caught by surprise and could not erect barriers to competitive entry fast enough, although they’re still trying. Everyone I’ve worked with in the past 2 decades have worked in Information Technologies in the fun scramble for market share.
We must not let the elite use Islam to degrade our options and degrade our lives. They’re trying to do precisely that.
gravenimage says
A system of “Qisas” for injured footballers was also brought in, referring to the retributive justice system enacted under Sharia law, where victims can claim compensation or exact revenge.
…………………………….
Who would play soccer on this basis–even Muslims? I can just imagine demands not just for “blood money”, but for compensatory maiming and the death penalty–particularly if they are Jihadists playing without referees. I imagine soccer is going to get pretty bloody…
In “secular” Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s son Uday used to torture Iraqi players who performed badly. Since the Iraqi team was generally pretty pathetic, this was quite common.
In the civilized world, soccer teaches sportsmanship–in Dar-al-Islam, not so much,,,
Undaunted says
Speaking of Muslims behaving badly, today is the 12th anniversary of the takeover of Beslan School #1 in North Ossetia, Russian Federation. Three days later 333 Russians, including many children, were dead or dying. If you wonder why that’s important to you, check the link below:
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2016/09/true-warriors-theyre-still-out-there.html
gravenimage says
Excellent blog post, Undaunted.
And you’re right–we should never forget the horror of Beslan. This happened on the first day of school–something many parents and children are dealing with right now.
epistemology says
The same from me, Undaunted an excellent post. I can’t remember how many times I watched the Beslan report on BBC. It was a bloody nightmare a normal Russian school on the first day of school being transformed into a concentration camp. It was unbelievable. How can anybody do that to innocent children, those monsters were deprived of human feelings.
Anyway banning soccer referees sounds because they don’t apply sharia law sounds preposterous. At first glance it’s always hilarious, muzzie ideas are always good for a laugh. But there is a method behind all this. They want to destroy our Western societies from within by abusing our democracy, freedom and tolerance. They totally dismiss human rights, as they lack sharia, the one and only law but they claim them when they feel it’s appropriate. The four French policemen who made the woman take off her burkini were the baddies in our Western media, only one example among so many.
Thanks gravenimage for your kind remark, I had a femoral neck fracture, no computer available in hospital and I missed all of you a lot. After all these years JW has become sort of family.
gravenimage says
Epistemology, I had had no idea you’d been in the hospital. Glad you are out and hope you have recovered.
I know just how you feel about JW. Glad to have you back!
B says
Shouldn’t they be banning games altogether? Isn’t soccer western? Good times and fun are “haram” unlawful in pislam.
Peggy says
I had no idea that Mohammed used to referee soccer back in his day.
So he left instructions for the followers to adhere to in sports too.
Is there anything he didn’t come up with rules for?
mortimer says
Mohammed always made up his own rules as the game progressed… he called it ‘abrogation’. When the opposing team seemed to be winning, Allah suddenly changed the rules.
Players knew better than to disagree with Mohammed.
Peggy says
And he always felt like a winner.
Champ says
Maribell says
I don’t understand what shariah soccer would look like. The Muslim team always wins, regardless of who plays better, and at the end, the infidel team are beheaded?
mortimer says
Robert Spencer wrote: “One might almost get the crazy idea that the Islamic State had something to do with Islam. Good thing we have John Kerry and the Pope to tell us otherwise.”
John Kerry will censor the news so Western people can’t learn about Islam.
Pope Francis will write a new catechism to assure all Christians that Muslims don’t believe in jihad warfare against disbelievers.
don vito says
If the jihadis don’t win, I could imagine, jihadis might well explode! …….Spppt, don? They explode now.
Shane Brandon says
Don’t bother blowing your whistle ref, islam can still score goals when there offside.
Michael Johnson says
Are you kidding me soccer is only a game not a religion
Xero_G says
In ISIS soccer, would the “goal” be referred to as, “Global Sharia”?
DockyWocky says
Somehow, someone has to penetrate the thick skulls of islamists who are so crazed with their primitive, and self-contradicting religion that they seek to force it down everyone else’s craw.
This is the Twenty First Century, and contrary to their beliefs, they have no rights to force anything on anyone. What their great scamster had to say 1400 years ago is no longer relevant, and the only cure for their desires to spread their scamster’s tripe looks more and more like it is going to take the total destruction of them and their mental aberration.
jewdog says
I guess we need a special Sharia rule book for ISIS games: Female players must be fully covered, no shorts, non-Muslim teams must pay a special fee, referees will employ whipping for penalties and any player heard blaspheming will be promptly beheaded.
Pigs be upon Him says
this reminds me of Admiral General Aladeen’s Olympics
marion mann says
can these people get even more stupid. Yes. check out memri tv on youtube. with an occasional exception, it is hilarious drivel