To Shave or Not to Shave: Taliban Outlaws Cutting Beards in Afghanistan's Barbershops
To Shave or Not to Shave: Taliban Outlaws Cutting Beards in Afghanistan's Barbershops
Sputnik International
Earlier, local Taliban officials ordered all barbershops to close in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. The terrorist group said the decision was based... 28.09.2021, Sputnik International
Earlier, local Taliban officials ordered all barbershops to close in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. The terrorist group said the decision was based on the norms of Islam. In Helmand and the southeastern province of Kandahar, musical performances are also banned.
A man gets a haircut in a barbershop in Kabul, 19 June 2002 as pictures depicting different haircut styles – all without beard – are displayed on the wall. Since the end of the last Taliban era, an increasing number of Afghan men have abandoned the long beard, which was imposed during the fundamentalist Islamic regime.
An Afghan barber watches near the site where suicide bombers attacked the entrance to a guesthouse in Kabul on 10 August 2010.
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