The Islamic State has increased the punishment for trimming or shaving one’s beard. Instead of lashes, the punishment is now execution.
ISIS began executing every man who trims or shaves his beard in Mosul last week, the head of the Ninevah Reporters Network Rafat Zarari told Sputnik.
Beards were initially banned in Mosul at the beginning of June this year. ISIS threatened to execute in cruel and terrible ways anyone who didn’t grow their beard.
Most ISIS men grow beards and some of them reach the chests, according to pictures released by the group on social media.
The Islamic State enforces its draconian rules with the Islamic morality police – the hisbah
Vice News obtained access to go on patrol with the hisbah in the ISIS capital of Raqqa:
