Posted on 09/23/2014 2:29:43 PM PDT by markomalley
Residents of Iraq's Kirkuk said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has backed down from its decision to ban smoking and has thus allowed selling cigarettes in areas it controls south and west of the province, Almada Press reported Saturday.
Abdulrahman al-Gabouri, a resident of Hawija, 55 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk, told Almada Press that ISIS has now allowed shops to sell cigarettes in the province and its towns.
The decision came as an attempt to gain popularity after the group’s extremist actions began to appall residents particularly after security forces, aided by international support, began to attack ISIS, the report added.
Gabouri added that ISIS forces, which have rapidly advanced over the past few months seizing swathes of Iraq and Syria, used to confiscate and destroy cigarettes by crushing them under the Hummer vehicles they seized from Iraqi security forces.
Suleiman Mokhlef Abd al-Gumayli, another Hawija resident, told Almada Press that ISIS fighters confiscated huge amounts of cigarettes weeks ago and informed shop owners they were not allowed to sell cigarettes as per a fatwa (religious edict) issued by the organization’s court and which stipulated banning cigarettes and lashing anyone who violated this rule.
Go figure...they’re like Democrats!
There’s some groups you don’t mess with.
Hard core hashish smokers.
Sounds pretty humanitarian of them ... last smoke before they behead you .... what a bunch of wild and crazy guys!
Drama queens, all of them!
We oughta offer them air-dropped pork rinds as part favors to offer their new recruits.
...just as you were falling in love - sigh.
Yeah, muslims hate fags. (both kinds)
I agree with lifting the smoking ban.
In fact, I’d love to see every last ISIS terrorist smoking.
After a Tomahawk missile lands on their ragheads reducing them to a smoking pile of ashes.
Take our towns, enslave our women, behead our Christians, but don’t mess with our smoking!
Oh really! The one before execution always requests a smoke so you better grab a pack! Your days are numbered! It will not be offered! So be ready!
Finally . . . something that will tick off your left-wing American sycophants!
How do those folks get the smoke into their lungs without a head?
Kind of hard to smoke cigarettes when you don’t have a head on your shoulders...and I doubt they’ll ever reconsider that policy.
ISIS Nanny State PING!
Probably sobbing into his pillow right now.
HAha! wOW WHAT BEDFELLOWS, EH?
Love hurts.....:-)
Thanks for the ping!
The smokers will have to pay a special Jizyah or tax under Islamic law. Like Christians. They are free to exercise whatever they want as long as they pay a tax to let the whole world know that they are sub human.
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