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http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/07/20/syria-all-female-isis-jihadist-brigade-enforces-sharia-law-on-local-women/"Their mandate? To apprehend civilian women who do not follow the organization’s strict brand of Sharia law. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has started imposing extensive restrictions in the [Syrian] province of Raqqa, in the northeast of the country.
al-Monitor ISIS requires the “imposition of the full-face veil,†requiring “all sisters to wear the full-face veil in public, in line with Islamic morality. Women must wear Islamic dress, which consists of the full-face veil and an abaya to cover the whole body, in addition to gloves. Women are not allowed to raise their voices in the street or walk at a late hour without a male guardian.â€
“Every sister that continues to violate Sharia after a three-day warning will be punished along with her guardian,†the statement asserted, stressing that if these rules are not applied, “we risk losing control of the liberated areas.â€
SyriaDeeply Shortly after the Sunni militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) retook control of Raqqa earlier this year, it created the al-Khansaa’ Brigade, an all-female unit operating in the city. Its purpose is to apprehend civilian women in Raqqa who do not follow the organization’s strict brand of Sharia law, including a mandate that all women be fully covered in public and that they be accompanied by a male chaperone.
“We have established the brigade to raise awareness of our religion among women, and to punish women who do not abide by the law,†says Abu Ahmad, an ISIS official in Raqqa. “There are only women in this brigade, and we have given them their own facilities to prevent the mixture of men and women.â€
He says the organization, which has been pushing further into eastern Syria after taking control of the Iraqi city of Mosul and key points on the Iraq-Syria border last month, needs a female brigade to “raise awareness among women, and arrest and punish women who do not follow the religion correctly. Jihad is not a man-only duty. Women must do their part as well.â€