​ISIS bans pigeon breeding as seeing birds’ genitals ‘offends Islam’ – report

‘Senior clerics fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq have issued an instruction banning pigeon-breeding claiming that “the sight of the birds’ genitals as they fly overhead is offensive to Islam,” The Daily Mail reports.

The Islamists operating in the ISIS “Euphrates province” that stretches from Anbar in Iraq to Dier ez Zour in Syria published the instruction by the senior administrators of the province, telling pigeon breeders they had one week to stop the practice, or face prison, a fine and public flogging.’

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