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February 7, 2005
Islamic radicals hunt barbers in Baghdad for giving 'un-Islamic' haircuts
Topics: Understanding IslamComing to a neighborhood near you; welcome to sharia, Islamic law, and all it's benefits. This is where the liberal, politically correct, bureaucrats and politicians are taking America when they cater to Muslim fundamentalist step by step Islamazation and it's resulting dhimmitude. This is not being Islamaphobic, it's being practical and realistic. It is as big a problem for most Muslims as it is for non-Muslims. Remember, the great majority of voters in Iraq that braved the threat of death were Muslims.
- Jihad Watch
The same sort of thing happened in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Islam covers every aspect of life, say apologists. This article shows
how that can become totalitarian, destructive, and murderous. From AP :
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) 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.
To them, sporting a clipped beard or a modern haircut is an infraction worthy of death.
Black banners mourning the dead were strung up in the neighborhood as the unwitting violators fell one after another to the militants' harsh brand of justice. In one month alone, five barbers were shot dead, residents said.
``He was a haircutter. He only cuts hair,'' Umm Ali said of her son, Sadiq Abdul Hussein. ``He was handsome,'' she said, gazing at a photo of him.
Abdul Hussein was killed after he shrugged off a threat to stop shaving men's beards or lose his life.
Posted by Hyscience at February 7, 2005 10:15 AM
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