{"id":619,"date":"2015-02-20T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raqqa-sl.com\/en\/?p=619"},"modified":"2015-03-15T23:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T23:28:15","slug":"isis-beheads-top-police-official-smoking-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raqqa-sl.com\/en\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"ISIS beheads top police official for smoking cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf the Marlboro Man lived in the Islamic State he\u2019d get beheaded before he died of cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Along with bans on music and drinking, ISIS has imposed a ban on smoking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Islamic extremists reportedly beheaded one of their own for smoking cigarettes. No mercy was shown to the\u00a0high-ranking police official and Egyptian national whose headless body was discovered near a power plant in the Syrian city of\u00a0Deir-al-Zor. Written on his corpse was the phrase \u201cO, Sheikh this is munkar (hateful and evil thing).\u201d He had a cigarette in his mouth. The man was the deputy \u201cemir\u201d of the al-Hesbah force in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The group claims smoking as a sin because it is a \u201cslow suicide.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a statement issued last year, ISIS\u2019 \u201cPreaching Office\u201d said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery smoker should be aware that with every cigarette he smokes in a state of trance and vanity is disobeying god. Three days following the issuance of the statement, selling tobacco and shisha (hookah tobacco) will be strictly prohibited and those who insist on selling them will bring injustice upon themselves and upon other people. All tobacco quantities will be burned and the seller will be punished according to Sharia.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Abu Mohammed Hussam, a founder of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), told The Independent just how serious smoking offenses are taken in the Islamic State. \u201cThe first time he will be arrested and flogged (40 lashes),\u201d he said. \u201cIf he smokes again, he will be whipped and imprisoned. On the third occasion, he will be taken to a camp in the countryside and fined a large sum of money.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shops selling cigarettes and hookahs have been shut down by ISIS and street vendors have been barred from selling tobacco products in Raqqa, Syria, one of the extremists\u2019 most coveted holdings. Disobedient shops were burned to the ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A cafe manager said his business was suffering under ISIS\u2019 ban. \u201cNo customers come in,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of our customers are smokers, and they do not enjoy a cup of coffee if they can\u2019t smoke a cigarette with it. They are indirectly forcing us to close the cafe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Others resort to crossing borders to enjoy a cigarette. When aid workers come enter areas held by ISIS they throw their cigarettes out the car windows and turn Islamic nasheed (chant) on the stereo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ISIS has publicly burned millions of cigarette packs In Iraq and Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source<\/span> :\u00a0chicago.suntimes.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the Marlboro Man lived in the Islamic State he’d get beheaded before he died of cancer. Along with bans on music and drinking, ISIS has imposed a ban on<\/p>\n

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