They also banned smoking, displaying women’s clothes, trimming beards, women going to the gynecologist, and calling al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant by their initials ISIL (that will get you 70 lashes).

You’d think ISIL would have learned from their mistakes in Iraq where people tired of their 7th century rules and tossed them out.

Via Eretz Zen:

This report from Lebanese al-Jadeed TV lists some of the recent “post-revolution” rules that the “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) has imposed on Syrian citizens living in those areas that are now under its control, such as ones in Raqqa and Idlib. The rules seem to focus on the unnatural Saudi practice of sex-separation and prohibiting what is perceived as Western lifestyle.