Terrorist Birds: Jordan Intercepts Daesh Homing Pigeon

Jordan's border control caught a homing pigeon sent by Daesh in Syria, Jordanian border commander Sabir Mahayreh said during a press conference on Wednesday. The information was spread by local media.

The jihadists tied a letter with a phone number to the foot of the bird, which was flying to a Jordanian resident, Mahayreh said, according to Albawaba News.

Previously, the terrorists were trying to send a spy drone from Syria into Jordan that was also captured by the Jordanian border patrol, the source said.

Daesh spies are said to be in the Al Raqban refugee camp near the Jordanian border. Some of the spies already tried to cross the border, but their attempts have largely been in vain, according to Albawaba News.

The Al Raqban refugee camp currently has close to 60,000 Syrian refugees. While the camp's population keeps rising, it has a lack of control, oversight and structure.

Interestingly, last year Daesh banned pigeon breeding, because the sight of the birds' genitals seen from the ground when they're flying is offensive to Islam.

As many as 15 people were arrested for breeding pigeons and at least three of them were executed for their hobby, Albawaba News reported.

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Daesh bans pigeon breeding in the ‘caliphate' due to offensive, low flying genitals

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Daesh bans pigeon breeding in the ‘caliphate' due to offensive, low flying genitals

Bird breeding is now punishable by fines, public flogging, and prison. (Pixabay)

Senior clerics fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq [Daesh] 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.

ISIS' latest ban on pigeon breeding was revealed in an official document released by senior administrators in the group's self-declared Euphrates province.

Written in Arabic script on paper headed with the terror group's chilling black and white logo, the short document begins with a warning to locals who keep pigeons on the roof of their houses.

'All those who keep pigeons above the roofs of their houses must stop doing this entirely within a week of the date of the issuing of this statement,' the militants say.

'Whosoever violates it will be subject to consequences of reprimand including a financial fine, imprisonment and flogging,' they added.

When rumours of an ISIS ban on pigeons began to circulate earlier this year, it was widely assumed that it was related to the birds being used to either smuggle anti-ISIS messages or cigarettes.

However the new document clears up that misunderstanding, clearly stating that the ban is intended 'to put a stop to the greater criminal act of harming one's Muslim and Muslim women neighbours, revealing the [pigeon's] genitals and wasting time.'

Inevitably ISIS calls on its network of spies and terrified informers to ensure that those who ignore the ban suffer harsh punishments - demanding locals report anybody who continues to reveal their pigeons' genitals to the local religious police, known as the Hisbah.

It is likely that those who flout the ban as a one-off will be publicly flogged and fined a substantial sum. Repeat offenders face being jailed in one of ISIS' notorious prison cells.

Bizarrely the latest pigeon breeding ban isn't the first time the militants have targeted the practice.

In January the terror group rounded up 15 boys who were 'wasting time' rearing the birds, summarily executing three of them.

The surviving boys' families were forced to pay as much as £1,200 each to secure their release after the group were snatched from their homes in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala, close to Baghdad.

According to eyewitnesses, the ISIS militants searched every house for the pigeons themselves, stuffing any birds that they found into bags and taken them away to be burned.

Abu Abdullah, a farmer, told NBC News he had managed to get the money together after borrowing from family. Others had handed over jewellery to secure their sons' release.

Mr Abdullah, 52, said he was standing beside his son when ISIS militants stormed the family home and kidnapped his son.

He said: 'I asked them why and they said: 'He is not following the real Islam, he must be punished for being a pigeon breeder. This habit is taking him away from worshiping Allah.'

'I begged them again to know where are they taking him, what are they going to do to him. They said he is going to be taken to be judged according to the Islamic Sharia.

'They pushed me, and when my son tried to stop them from pushing me they beat him. Then they put him inside the car and left.

pigeons are offensive, even without the sac... flying rats