- Militants issue new set of rules for citizens of the Islamic State to live by
- Terrorists make sick attempts to justify burning 'unbelievers' to death
- Billiards and table football are permitted but only under strict conditions
- Women are allowed to carry AK-47s but visiting a male doctor is banned
- ISIS also claims that murdering people purely to harvest their organs is perfectly acceptable under Islamic law
Published:
13:42 GMT, 3 March 2015
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Updated:
11:40 GMT, 4 March 2015
Militants
fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq have issued a new set
of rules jihadis must live by - including restrictions on when to utter
curses and a ban on women slapping their thighs.
A
fighter calling himself Abu 'Umar al-Masri, who claims to be based in
the terrorists' capital Raqqa, tweeted photographs of flyers containing
fatwas imposed on local residents in recent weeks.
Providing
a unique glimpse in to life under ISIS' brutal and oppressive control,
each of the 32 slips of paper - which are headed with the terror group's
chilling black and white logo - gives a detailed explanation of various
bizarre rules and regulations laid out by ISIS leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi.
Among
the more unusual commands are orders that men must refrain from
swearing while playing billiards or table football, and information on
exactly when it is permitted for women dye their eyebrows blonde or
carry assault rifles beneath their niqabs.
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Militants: A fighter calling himself
Abu 'Umar al-Masri, who claims to be based in the terrorists' capital
Raqqa (pictured), tweeted photographs of flyers containing fatwas
imposed on local residents in recent weeks
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Dictats:
Each of the 32 slips of paper - which are headed with the terror group's
chilling black and white logo - gives a detailed explanation of various
bizarre rules and regulations laid out by ISIS
Each
of the 32 paper fatwas seen in Abu 'Umar al-Masri's tweets last month
are numbered and dated, and are written in Arabic. It is understood the
32 fatwas are taken from approximately 70 new rules and regulations
issued by the Islamic State in 2015.
The letters are written in Arabic and address the city's population, which terror analysis website Jihadica claims proves they are meant for local use, not wider propaganda purposes.
The
fatwas are unlikely to have been issued by any body other than ISIS'
official Sharia Council, to whom even leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
reports. Jihadica claims that this means 30-year-old Bahraini scholar
and council leader Turki al-Bin'ali is the likely author.
Abu
'Umar al-Masri's tweets show that the list of new rules have been
issued in a kind of stapled book and are structured in a question and
answer format.
Although
they pieces of paper are dated using an official Islamic State
calender, Jihadica converted the dates to show that they were issued to
citizens between December and February this year.
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Oppressed: Among the more unusual
legal explantions is information on exactly when it is permitted for
women living under ISIS to dye their eyebrows blonde or carry assault
rifles beneath their niqabs
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Horror: At
times the fatwas make harrowing reading, such as the rule justifying
jihadis burning 'unbelievers' to death because the Prophet Mohammed
ordered his enemies' eyes to be gouged out with hot iron
The
fatwas issued by the Islamic State are highly bureaucratic, demanding
fighters hand over one fifth of all money and items looted to the terror
group's officials, insisting fighters cannot leave territory under ISIS
control under any circumstances, and banning women from showing their
eyes.
At
times they make for harrowing reading, such as the rule justifying
jihadis burning 'unbelievers' to death because the Prophet Mohammed
ordered his enemies' eyes to be gouged out with hot irons.
The
bulk of the fatwas deal with administrative matters, such as when
citizens are due compensation, how women should ensure they are
dressed, and explaining the incredibly strict terms and conditions under
which seriously ill women can visit a male doctor.
Despite
rumours to the contrary having circulated for many months, they fatwas
clearly state that the issuing of Islamic State passports is banned as
they enable citizens to 'travel to the lands of disbelief' - something
expressly forbidden in an earlier dictat.
On
a lighter note, both billiards and table football are allowed - albeit
under strict conditions and with a warning that God does not look
particularity favourably on such trivial pursuits.
Gambling
on matches is, predictably, banned, but so is using table football
characters shaped like humans, as the creation of anything imitating
humans or animals is banned under ISIS' exceptionally strict
interpretation of Islamic law.
A SELECTION OF ISLAMIC STATE FATWAS ISSUED SINCE DECEMBER 2014
Fatwa 35: December 11, 2014
One fifth of all war booty it is to be given to the office of war booty.
Fatwa 36: December 11, 2014
Tax should be levied on agricultural holdings that once belonged to apostates.
Fatwa 37: December 16, 2014
It is not permissible to travel to the lands of the unbelievers - including areas controlled by the Assad regime.
Fatwa 38: December 2, 2014
It permissible to curse by accusing someone of being a disbeliever, but you must never say they are destined for hellfire.
Fatwa 40: December 17, 2014
Women should not wear make-up or show any part of their face, including their eyes, in case lures men into temptation.
Fatwa 41: December 17, 2014
Women
can carry weapons such as Kalashnikov rifles under their robes
providing they do not add definition to her body, luring men into
temptation.
Fatwa 42: December 17, 2014
Female nurses must not work in an office with a male doctor unless they have a male guardian.
Fatwa 43: December 17, 2014
Women must see only female doctors for treatment. If a female doctor
cannot be found, then it is permissible to see a male doctor, but on the
condition that he not be alone with her.
Fatwa 44: December 17, 2014
Women
must cover their entire body in thick, loose fitting material that does
not resemble the clothing of men or that of women in the West. They
must not slap their thighs or act flirtatiously as it is highly
arousing, nor can they wear perfume.
Fatwa 45: December 17, 2014
A woman must travel with a male guardian at all times
Fatwa 46: December 17, 2014
Women
whose husbands have been killed must be punished if they try to leave
ISIS-held territory for the lands of the unbelievers.
Fatwa 47: December 18, 2014
The
length of time between the call to prayer and the call just before
prayer must vary from prayer to prayer, according to the sunnah.
Fatwa 48: December 20, 2014
You must not sell Islamic State passports to allow citizens to travel to the land of unbelievers.
Fatwa 49: December 28, 2014
It
is permissible to play billiards providing the game does not allow
gambling, encourage cursing, or inhibit the worshiping or God
Fatwah 50: December 28, 2014
It
is permissible to play foosball [table football] providing the game
does not allow gambling, encourage cursing, feature characters in human
or animal form, or inhibit the worshiping or God.
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Brutal: The bulk of the fatwas deal
with administrative matters, such as how women should dress and
explaining the incredibly strict terms and conditions under which
seriously ill women can visit a male doctor
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Fatwa: Despite rumours to the contrary
having circulated for many months, they fatwas clearly state that the
issuing of Islamic State passports is banned as they enable citizens to
'travel to the lands of disbelief'
One chilling fatwa appears to confirm reports that ISIS operates an organ harvesting scheme.
'It
is permissible to transplant the healthy organs of the body of an
apostate to the body of a Muslim, in order to save the latter's life or
improve his condition if he has lost organs,' the letter states
'The
jurists of the Shafi'i and Hanbali schools of Islamic law, among
others, permitted killing belligerent unbelievers or apostates and
eating their flesh as a life-saving measure. The case of organ
transplantation as a life-saving measure is similar,' it adds.
'Moreover,
it is established that the lives and organs of apostates are
fundamentally licit. Their organs may thus be taken, whether or not the
apostates are alive or already dead, and whether or not doing so results
in their death,' it goes on to claim.
AK-47
assault rifles, one fatwa insists, are perfectly acceptable to be
carried beneath a women's clothes, providing it doesn't add definition
to her body that could be deemed tempting to men.
Likewise
all forms of Western clothing are banned in order not to 'imitate the
unbeliever', although the fatwas still feel the need to say it is
illegal to sell counterfeit brand-name clothing and household products,
as selling fake produce is a form of deceit.
One
surprising law bans the practice of men swapping sisters or daughters
for brides of their own, apparently because it 'does an injustice to the
bride'. Instead, ISIS demand, the bride must grant permission for any
marriage to take place.
HOW
ISLAMIC IS THE ISLAMIC STATE? NOT VERY, SAY EXPERTS: HOW GROUP
HAND-PICKS WHAT IT WANTS FROM THE KORAN AND ACCOUNTS OF MUHAMMAD'S
ACTIONS TO WAGE ITS JIHAD
The
Islamic State cherry picks sections of the Koran and misinterprets the
accounts of the Prophet Muhammad in order to wage jihad and sign up new
recruits, experts say.
It
is estimated that 20,000 people have streamed into the territory in
Iraq and Syria, where ISIS has proclaimed what it calls a 'caliphate',
ruled by its often brutal version of Islamic law.
The
group purport to recreate the conquests and rule of the Prophet
Muhammad and his successors and maintains its worst brutalities - such
as beheading captives - only prove its purity in following what it
contends is the prophet's example.
But
now Muslims clerics and other experts are speaking out, saying that the
group hand picks what it wants from Islam's holy book, the Koran, and
from accounts of Muhammad's actions and sayings, known as the Hadith.
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An ISIS member parades through the
streets of Raqqa in Syria waving an Islamic State flag and brandishing a
gun. Experts have now said that ISIS misinterprets the Koran in order
to wage jihad
It then misinterprets many of these, while ignoring everything in the texts that contradicts those hand-picked selections.
Writings
by the group's clerics and its English-language online magazine, Dabiq,
are full of citations from Koranic verses, the Hadith and centuries of
interpreters, mostly from hardliners.
But
Joas Wagemakers, an assistant professor of Islamic Studies at Radboud
University in the Netherlands, says these are taken far out of context
by ISIS.
He
explained that Muslim scholars throughout history have used texts in a
'decontextualised way' to suit their purposes and says that ISIS
represent the extreme.
He
added: 'It would be a mistake to conclude the Islamic State group's
extremism is the true Islam that emerges from the Koran and Hadith.
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