Islamic State’s veil warning to women
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ISLAMIC State, the al-Qaida offshoot that seized large swathes of northern Iraq last month, has warned women in the city of Mosul to wear full-face veils or risk severe punishment.
The Sunni insurgents, who have declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria and have threatened to march on Baghdad, also listed guidelines on how veils and clothes should be worn, part of a campaign to violently impose their radical brand of Islam.
“The conditions imposed on her clothes and grooming was only to end the pretext of debauchery resulting from grooming and overdressing,” the Islamic State said in a statement. “This is not a restriction on her freedom but to prevent her from falling into humiliation and vulgarity or to be a theater for the eyes of those who are looking.”
A cleric in Mosul said Islamic State gunmen had shown up at his mosque and ordered him to read their warning on loudspeakers when worshipers gather. “Anyone who is not committed to this duty and is motivated by glamor will be subject to accountability and severe punishment to protect society from harm,” it said.
The insurgents have been systematically stamping out any religious or cultural influences they deem non-Islamic since their lightning sweep through the north.
Islamic State militants view Iraq’s majority Shi’ites as infidels who deserve to be killed and have told Christians to either convert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face death.
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