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The Dubious Roots of Religious Police in Islam

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Iran has a religious police, which it claims is a requirement of Islam. The police are also active in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Malaysia and Indonesia. They act on the assumption that Islamic religious requirements should be enforced by the state. To many Muslims living in the West, all these religious dictates often seem baffling.

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The Dubious Roots of Religious Police in Islam

The Islamic concept of ‘commanding the right and forbidding the wrong’ is applied across the Muslim world to curtail personal liberties and police morality, but this interpretation is questionable

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