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Islamic State bans soccer referees because they implement Fifa rules “in violation of the commands of Allah”

Sep 1, 2016 5:46 pm By Robert Spencer

“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.

Islamic State Raqqa

“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….

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  1. nicu says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    But why a soccer championship in Quatar then ????

    • bleeps says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 8:07 pm

      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

        Sep 2, 2016 at 3:32 am

        Soccer was Big Time in Ancient Persia and throughout the Middle East !! YEAH Right !!
        Allan was a Super Star !! 🙂

    • J D S says

      Sep 2, 2016 at 11:25 am

      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

      Sep 2, 2016 at 3:43 pm

      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.

  2. J-pal says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    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…

  3. Keith says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    Are they going to give us Allah’s rules of football then?

    • Jack Diamond says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 7:00 pm

      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

        Sep 1, 2016 at 7:29 pm

        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

        Sep 2, 2016 at 11:27 am

        Why have they not just outlawed soccer or any game for that matter?????

        • Jay Boo says

          Sep 2, 2016 at 9:23 pm

          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

      Sep 1, 2016 at 10:55 pm

      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

        Sep 2, 2016 at 2:03 am

        Perhaps in Islam you only score goats (!)

  4. marina says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    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.

  5. Cecilia Ellis says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    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

      Sep 1, 2016 at 9:35 pm

      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

        Sep 1, 2016 at 10:11 pm

        Hilarious, Sog! ?

      • PRCS says

        Sep 1, 2016 at 11:25 pm

        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?

  6. Adrian says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 6:07 pm

    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.

  7. biff says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 6:07 pm

    Islamic idiocy knows no bounds.

  8. Angemon says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 6:24 pm

    If people’s lives weren’t on the line, this would be hilarious. A bad joke, but hilarious nonetheless.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 1, 2016 at 7:35 pm

      Agreed, Angemon.

  9. pdxnag says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    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

      Sep 1, 2016 at 10:16 pm

      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.

  10. gravenimage says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 7:44 pm

    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,,,

  11. Undaunted says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    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

      Sep 1, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      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

      Sep 2, 2016 at 9:04 pm

      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

        Sep 2, 2016 at 9:16 pm

        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!

  12. B says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Shouldn’t they be banning games altogether? Isn’t soccer western? Good times and fun are “haram” unlawful in pislam.

  13. Peggy says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 9:40 pm

    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

      Sep 1, 2016 at 11:03 pm

      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

        Sep 2, 2016 at 1:43 am

        And he always felt like a winner.

  14. Champ says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 9:44 pm

  15. Maribell says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    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?

  16. mortimer says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    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.

  17. don vito says

    Sep 1, 2016 at 11:48 pm

    If the jihadis don’t win, I could imagine, jihadis might well explode! …….Spppt, don? They explode now.

  18. Shane Brandon says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 12:49 am

    Don’t bother blowing your whistle ref, islam can still score goals when there offside.

  19. Michael Johnson says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 12:58 am

    Are you kidding me soccer is only a game not a religion

  20. Xero_G says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 1:04 am

    In ISIS soccer, would the “goal” be referred to as, “Global Sharia”?

  21. DockyWocky says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 7:57 am

    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.

  22. jewdog says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 9:04 am

    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.

  23. Pigs be upon Him says

    Sep 2, 2016 at 8:13 pm

    this reminds me of Admiral General Aladeen’s Olympics

  24. marion mann says

    Sep 10, 2016 at 2:12 am

    can these people get even more stupid. Yes. check out memri tv on youtube. with an occasional exception, it is hilarious drivel

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