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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Has a Consumer Protection Office
The Atlantic ^ | Jun 13, 2014 | Aaron Zelin

Posted on 06/26/2016 7:35:00 PM PDT by Ray76

No sooner had it seized the Iraqi city of Mosul and surrounding villages, than the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) began outlining how it would govern its dawla (state).

The best way to get a sense of ISIS’s blueprint for state-building is to look at how it has ruled al-Raqqa governorate and other territory in neighboring Syria. The group’s first move is often to set up billboards around town that emphasize the importance of jihad, sharia, women’s purity, and other pietistic themes.

The group also has a surprisingly sophisticated bureaucracy, which typically includes an Islamic court system and a roving police force.

Beyond these judicial measures, ISIS also invests in public works.

The militants have also developed health and welfare programs.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: billboards; healthcare; isis; managementofsavagery; tmos; welfare

1 posted on 06/26/2016 7:35:01 PM PDT by Ray76
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That’s an awful long way to get a refun on my waffle Iron


2 posted on 06/26/2016 7:38:19 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Sounds like Obama’s utopian society.


3 posted on 06/26/2016 7:42:16 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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We saw the roving imams in town in Saudi Arabia, in Rahima. We WERE told to dress in a circumspect manner so those stupid women who didn't were in for it.

Circumspect: nothing too short, too low cut, too tight or see through. Unfortunately there WERE a few stupids. Their HUSBANDS were sent to spend some time in a Saudi jail, not nice, I hear, and the women were sent home. So, HE was fired and stuck...she was home, with no husband and stuck...all because of stupidity and pride.

We were told about dress codes for a solid WEEK in the orientation: They DON'T mess around and it IS their country.

4 posted on 06/26/2016 7:44:17 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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That’s a lot of nice things they’re doing between beheadings.


5 posted on 06/26/2016 7:45:30 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: Ray76

What I find interesting is that all this is the implementation of the plan described in The Management of Savagery.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3443961/posts


6 posted on 06/26/2016 7:48:24 PM PDT by Ray76 (The evil effect of Obergefell is to deprive the people of rule of law & subject us to tyranny!)
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Not bad for a “JV team”. Hate to see what the “Varsity” team looks like.

Thanks Obama for betraying freedom around the world.


7 posted on 06/27/2016 12:41:00 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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They DON'T mess around and it IS their country.

I have zero respect for that point of view.

Islam is incompatible with the US Constitution.

8 posted on 06/27/2016 1:05:03 AM PDT by cynwoody
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JUN 13, 2014

Aw, gee. Let us understand these wogs.

Time to nuke Raqqa!

9 posted on 06/27/2016 1:13:15 AM PDT by cynwoody
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First you let them manage it, then you nuke it. Wash, rinse and repeat as needed.


10 posted on 06/27/2016 2:07:15 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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“implementation of the plan”

Key words


11 posted on 06/27/2016 5:23:35 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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Not just entrenched but entrenched bureaucracy already.


12 posted on 06/27/2016 6:40:43 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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