ISIS radio station launches phone-in show to discuss militants' personal problems

Baghdad: A radio station run by Islamic State has launched a platform for its militants to discuss their personal problems.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, the radio station Al-Bayan, that operates in the terror group's territories, features a special programme that translates ''Fatwas Over the Airwaves". In the programme, the clerics listen to the militants' problems and offer solutions to it.

They also answer questions based on the Islamic law and what all is permitted under it.

The clerics who are a part of this programme have said that most of the militants come with questions related to women, their role in the community, among others. One of the militants had asked the clerics if women are permitted to watch execution videos.

A transcript of a call obtained by Middle East Media Research Institute said, "Are women allowed to watch the mujahideen's videos? And what is the ruling on women looking at men?"

The caller got a response saying, "Some of the scholars have tended not to permit women to look at male strangers at all, and some of them have tended to prohibit women from looking at male strangers if this was out of desire or at a time or place ripe for temptation. However, if the looking is devoid of these things, it is permissible, and this is the correct stance to which the textual proofs point."

"Since women were ordered to conceal themselves from men, and men were not ordered to do this, therefore it is fundamentally permissible for the Muslim women to watch Islamic State videos, even if they contain sermons, military preparation, or combat by the men of the Islamic State," the respondent added.