IS threatened to give 80 lashes to Barcelona-Real Madrid match viewers

Militant group had warned people against watching Sunday's El Clásico


March 26, 2015
Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (R) vies with Real Madrid's forward Spanish league football match FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid CF at the Camp Nou stadium. PHOTO: Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (R) vies with Real Madrid's forward Jese (L) during the "clasico" Spanish league football match FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid CF at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on March 22, 2015. PHOTO: AFP

The Islamic State (IS) announced to punish anyone who watched last Sunday's football match between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona last Sunday with 80 lashes. 

The militant outfit has been conducting a rigorous drive to deny any sort of entertainment for  people, from listening music to watching sports, saying they are 'acts of Western moral decadence'.

 

Islamic State banned anyone watching the Real Madrid versus Barcelona football match last Sunday (pictured is Luis Suarez celebrating his goal at the game)

IS banned anyone watching the Real Madrid versus Barcelona football match last Sunday (pictured is Luis Suarez celebrating his goal at the game). PHOTO: AFP 




 

Fortunately, no news relating to the capture of any football fans surfaced as Barcelona beat their opponents 2-1.

In January, IS reportedly executed 13 teenage boys for watching the Asia Cup clash between Iraq and Jordon seven days prior.

The boys were ‘caught’ watching the match on TV in Mosul, which is under control of the IS.

 

Horrifying: ISIS militants rounded up the 13 teenage boys, whose only crime was watching football on television, and executed then by firing squad in Mosul, and Iraqi city under ISIS control (stock image)

PHOTO: AFP





The IS declared curfew last month in Tel Abiad located in the north of Raqqa province, where an anti-IS group succeeded in confiscating shocking videos of violence and oppression.

 

Crime: The teenagers had been watching this game between Jordan and Iraq in the Asian Cup, which took place  in Brisbane, Australia on January 12

IS reportedly executed 13 boys for watching a game between Jordan and Iraq in the Asian Cup. PHOTO: AFP




 

The story was originally published in Daily Mail.

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