ISIS militants threatened to give 80 lashes to anybody caught watching El Clasico because game ‘is product of decadent West’

  • ISIS imposed a strict ban on Real Madrid versus Barcelona match
  • Militants threatened to give 80 lashes to anyone caught watching game
  • Group said they considered football a ‘product of the decadent West’

    Islamic State miltiants threatened to give anyone caught watching last Sunday’s Real Madrid versus Barcelona match 80 lashes.

    The militant group has imposed a strict ban against any entertainment including music and football which it considers a ‘product of the decadent West.’
    Clerics issued the edict across all the Isis-held territories in Syria and Northern Iraq, including the city of Mosul which has been governed as per the strict dictates of Sharia since it was taken under Isis control in June.

    Islamic State banned anyone watching the Real Madrid versus Barcelona football match last Sunday (pictured is Luis Suarez celebrating his goal at the game)
    Islamic State banned anyone watching the Real Madrid versus Barcelona football match last Sunday (pictured is Luis Suarez celebrating his goal at the game)

    It is not yet known if anyone was caught watching El Clasico in which Barcelona secured a 2-1 win over Real Madrid with Luis Suarez’s second-half winner.

    A Kudistan Democratic Party source told The Sun: ‘IS prohibits watching and playing any sport, particularly football as it seen as a product of the decadent West.’

    In January, Isis militants executed 13 teenage boys for watching the Asian Cup football match between Iraq and Jordan last week.

    The young football fans had been caught watching the game on television in Mosul, which is controlled by the Islamic State.

    The teenagers were rounded up and publicly executed by a firing squad using machine guns, anti-ISIS activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reports.

    Horrifying: ISIS militants rounded up the 13 teenage boys, whose only crime was watching football on television, and executed then by firing squad in Mosul, and Iraqi city under ISIS control (stock image)
    Horrifying: ISIS militants rounded up the 13 teenage boys, whose only crime was watching football on television, and executed then by firing squad in Mosul, and Iraqi city under ISIS control (stock image)
    Crime: The teenagers had been watching this game between Jordan and Iraq in the Asian Cup, which took place in Brisbane, Australia on January 12
    Crime: The teenagers had been watching this game between Jordan and Iraq in the Asian Cup, which took place in Brisbane, Australia on January 12

    It noted that ‘the bodies of the dead boys were left in the open’, as ISIS had warned anyone from touching their bodies.

    Last month the militant group imposed a curfew in the city of Tel Abiad North of Raqqa province, according to Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently – a small activist collective which secretly documents the shocking violence and oppression ISIS has brought to their home city.

    The curfew, from eleven at night until six in the morning, prevented civilians from exiting their houses under any circumstances.

     source : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-3012563/Islamic-State-militants-threatened-80-lashes-anybody-caught-watching-el-Clasico-game-product-decadent-West.html

media activist from the city of Raqqa, student at the Faculty of Law at the University of the Euphrates. Director of the Media Office of Raqqa, founding member of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently", founding member of the documentary project of "Sound and Picture". I work in documenting violations committed by Assad's regime and ISIS group and extremist organizations inside the city of Raqqa, as I work in programming, design and visual media. I hold a certificate of coach in digital security, and a certificate of journalist coach, and a certificate in documenting violations against human rights, and a certificate in electronic advocacy. I underwent a training under the supervision of "Cyber-Arabs" in collaboration with the Institute for War and Peace "IWPR", about the management of electronic websites and leadership of advocacy campaigns, and a training of press photography under the supervision of the photojournalist "Peter Hove Olesen".