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Date: Jul 22, 2008 10:42
pislam wrote:
> Allah W. Bush wrote:
>> TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iranian police have warned barbers against
>> offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their
>> male customers, Iranian media said Sunday.
>>
>> The report by a reformist daily, later confirmed by an Iranian news
>> agency, appeared to be another sign of authorities cracking down on
>> clothing and other fashion deemed to be against Islamic values.
>>
>> "Western hairstyles ... have been banned," the newspaper Etemad said
>> in a front-page headline.
>>
>> It came a week after police launched a crackdown against the growing
>> number of young women testing the limits of the law with shorter,
>> brighter and skimpier clothing ahead of the summer months.
>>
>> Under Iran's Islamic Sharia law, imposed after the 1979 revolution,
>> women are obligated to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting
>> clothes to disguise their figures. ...
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