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The Mutaween are notorious for being staffed by murderers and ex-convicts, whose only job qualification is having memorized the title of the Quran to have their death sentences commuted, a smooth career path from being executed to executing others.

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  • Mutaween
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  • The Mutaween are notorious for being staffed by murderers and ex-convicts, whose only job qualification is having memorized the title of the Quran to have their death sentences commuted, a smooth career path from being executed to executing others.
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  • 2013-01-16(xsd:date)
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  • The Mutaween are notorious for being staffed by murderers and ex-convicts, whose only job qualification is having memorized the title of the Quran to have their death sentences commuted, a smooth career path from being executed to executing others. More recently, the term has gained use as a threat or swear word throughout the Arab-speaking world to indicate religious police in several Muslim majority areas like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman. The novel concept may have originated with Muslims themselves, based on a strict interpretation of Muslim Sharia Law, the entirety of which may be summed up in a single grand edict:
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