Organizes religious

The religious police force is a police force of State the purpose of which is to apply to the letter the religious rules and principles into force. It was for example the Inquisition which acted as repression of the defect in the catholic countries in Europe. Nowadays, there exist still some countries, mainly in the Muslim world, which have in their police force, a division in charge of manners.

In Saudi Arabia, the capacity in place has a special force of very powerful police force in the kingdom, in charge of the repression of the defect. They are the Muttawa.

Another country which had (still a few years ago) a religious police force was the Afghanistan. It was about the Département of the Promotion of the Virtue and the Prevention of the Defect , founded at the time of the come to power Talibans.

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