Religious police
police force responsible for the enforcement of religious norms and associated religious laws
Religious police is the police force responsible for the enforcement of religious norms and associated religious laws.
Quotes
edit- The police must strongly press on with the 'social security plan' and avoid seasonal and temporary initiatives so that its goals are implemented in society.
- Ali Khamenei, "Iran leader urges police to keep up social vice crackdown". AFP hosted at Google. 7 November 2007.
- In 2001, Afghanistan was a totalitarian nightmare — a land where girls could not go to school, where religious police roamed the streets, where women were publicly whipped, where there were summary executions in Kabul's soccer stadium.
- "President Bush Discusses Progress in Afghanistan, Global War on Terror". News & Policies. Whitehouse.gov (February 15, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
See also
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- Iran police in fashion crackdown
- Old Iran... ...Vs. New, July 1998
- Generation ex-communicated September 2002.
- Iranians arrested for net dating March 2003.
- Robert Tait (6 August 2007). "Iranian morals police arrest 230 in raid on 'satanist' rave". The Guardian.