In Cairo last June, Barack Obama vowed to defend the rights of women who wanted to wear hijab in the West. Since he presumably said this in the interests of protecting religious freedom, will he now denounce this activity in Somalia -- in the interests of protecting religious freedom?
"Somali Islamist rebels force men to grow beards," by Ibrahim Mohamed and Abdi Guled for Reuters, December 19 (thanks to DS):
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab rebels on Saturday ordered men to grow long beards, shave their moustaches and wear their trousers above the ankle.It is the first time in the lawless Horn of Africa country that the insurgents, who seek impose a strict form of Islamic sharia law, have focused on men's appearance, having previously ordered women to cover their entire bodies, and banned bras.
"We are ordering all men in Kismayu not to shave or trim their beards, but shave the moustache," Sheikh Ibrahim Garweyn, a senior Al Shabaab official for the public awareness in the southern Somali port town, told reporters on Saturday.
"We will never accept to see men with long beards and moustaches together. They have three days to follow the order."
The group, which Washington says is an al Qaeda proxy, has already banned musical ringtones, dancing at weddings and playing or watching soccer.
Al Shabaab has carried out executions, floggings and amputations to enforce its rulings, mainly Kismayu....
And this same sort of scum plucks chickens for us in Greeley and Shelbyville, USA.
The fact that these supremacists "demand" that men grow their beards and shave their mustaches infuriates me. Who are they to tell the average Joe how he may dress and groom himself? This is as irritating as the Copt in Egypt who was accosted by the thought police, while he was mailing Christmas cards at the post office, for eating during daylight hours during Ramadan. When he protested that he was not eating the idiot Muslim told him he was licking the envelope so that counted as eating.
These people are absolutely brainless and the only reason they get away with this stuff is because they have a chip and lots of guns. Without the guns they would be nothing but the panty-wetters that they really are.
MEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE AND THROW DA BUMS OUT! PROTECT YOUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND SAY NO TO ISLAMIC IDIOCY JUST LIKE YOU SAID NO TO NAZI AND COMMUNIST SUPREMACY.
How embarrassing would it be to live in a country where these clowns ran the show. I hope I never get that lazy.
Well, Mr. Ahmedinajad, here are some Moslems presenting a "true image of Islam to the world." Unfortunately our PC MSM will do its best to keep the world from seeing the "image."
Wow. Ban the Bra? Missed that one before.
Another grand reason for sharia!
islam is feminism. The reform has begun...