More on The Religion of Tolerance
Posted on | February 8, 2005 |
It seems terrorists in Iraq have a new target - barbers.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Umm Ali says militants killed her son last month for the most unlikely of reasons: He trims men’s beards.
In Baghdad’s Dora neighborhood, residents say Sunni Muslim extremists have made barbers the new hunted, accusing them of violating a strict reading of Islamic teachings that say men should keep their beards long.
Some extremists also consider Western-style haircuts an offensive symbol of the hated, secularized culture of Europe and the United States.
Their smell offends me so I guess that makes us even.
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