Talk:Islamic religious police

Iran religious police
Hello,

It's non-sense, Iran religious police is Basij militia. Basij is paramilitary volunteer militia under command of Khamenei (see Basij), not religious police. Religious police is regular and official part of the Iran police system including uniforms etc. without any direct relationship to Basij militia.

--Martin Kozák (talk) 16:37, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

"Wahhabism" not the only school of thought that promotes sharia policing
In fact Wahhabism is only a relatively recent branch, which seeks to implement laws that aren't all that different from traditional Fiqh. In the most known source for Sharia according to one of the established Madhabs (Shafi'i), "Reliance of the traveler", you will find tenets of equal harshness as those seen in KSA today albeit with variations. Moreover Wahhabism is a Sunni (Hanbali) offshoot. The article covers Iranian religious police, who are not Sunni but Shia.

My point is that the special mention of "Wahhabism" in the first paragraph is misleading. --- "or the precepts of Wahhabism." --- It makes no sense to single just that one out. It's not even the only hyper-orthodox school, there is also Deobandism in west and central asia associated with Taliban. This is just one example.

Reliance of the Traveler:

https://www.amazon.com/Reliance-Traveller-Classic-Islamic-Al-Salik/dp/0915957728

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/11/11878_eighthduty__00001.PDF

Information regarding other Madhabs (there should be some good sources collected here)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhhab — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.196.131.214 (talk) 12:58, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Islamic religious police
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Islamic religious police's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Milani": From 2017–2019 Iranian protests against compulsory hijab:  From Hijab by country: Milani, Farzaneh (1992). Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, p. 19, 34–37, ISBN 9780815602668 From Women in Iran: Milani, Farzaneh (1992). Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, pp. 19, 34–37, ISBN 9780815602668 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:44, 4 September 2021 (UTC)