KHAR, Pakistan – Suspected Islamic radicals have issued a Taliban-style warning to barbers in a Pakistani border town not to shave off or cut their customers’ beards, saying it offends Islam, ...

ZARQA/SHURA, Iraq (Reuters) - After Islamic State conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from beard length to alms to ...

A federal court in Tallahassee has ruled that a Martin County man doing time can grow his beard to the length his spiritual belief dictates, regardless of the limits of the Florida Department of ...

TASHKENT -- Uzbek police outside the capital have forced dozens of practicing Muslims to shave off their beards, a practice that has been criticized by domestic and international rights organization ...

RALEIGH — A supervisor used a racial slur to describe a Muslim worker and suggested he only converted to Islam to keep his beard, according to a discrimination complaint filed by a civil rights group ...

The Taliban told barbers in Helmand province they would be punished if they cut or shaved beards. Notices were put up outside salons that said "no one has a right to complain," the BBC reported. The ...

CAIRO — Call it the battle over beards. On one side are 106 heavily bearded police officers who say they are defending their right to follow the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad. On the other is the ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court ruled on Wednesday that policemen may grow beards, ending a decades-old convention barring them from making what is often seen here as a display of Islamic piety.

Once again, according to the headlines, the Pentagon has bowed to Islamic demands: — “Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and ...

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