ISIS bans pigeon breeding: seeing birds’ genitals offends Islam and is punishable by flogging

ISIS bans pigeon breeding: seeing birds’ genitals offends Islam and is punishable by flogging | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs: Islam, Jihad, Israel and the Islamic War on the West:
"Pigeon porn.
Who’d a thunk it?
What will these righteous, devout savages think of next?
How long before the devout Muslim group designates Central Park haram?

“ISIS bans pigeon breeding: seeing birds’ genitals offends Islam and is punishable by flogging,” By The Daily Mail, June 2, 2015
Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq have banned citizens breeding pigeons
Claim the sight of uncovered pigeons flying overhead is offensive to God
Also say that raising the birds wastes time that should be spent praying
Those who break the rules will face flogging, fines and even imprisonment
Earlier this year ISIS executed three boys they found breeding pigeons

By John Hall and Robert Verkaik-Published: 09:57, 2 June 2015
Document: Senior ISIS issued this diktat banning pigeon breeding as they claim the sight of the birds’ genitals as they fly overhead is offensive to Islam
Senior clerics fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq have issued a diktat banning pigeon breeding as they claim the sight of the birds’ genitals as they fly overhead is offensive to Islam.
Jihadis operating in the group’s ‘Euphrates province’, which stretches from Anbar in Iraq to Dier ez Zour in Syria, told pigeon breeders they had one week to stop the practice or face public flogging.
The announcement isn’t the first time ISIS has targeted the apparently blasphemous practice of pigeon breeding – a popular pastime in the Middle East.
Earlier this year it was claimed that 15 boys had been arrested and at least three of them executed by ISIS militants in Iraq’s eastern Diyala governate after fighters took exception to their pigeon breeding hobby on the grounds that it stopped them spending their time worshipping Allah...