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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Taliban told barbers in Helmand province they would be punished if they cut or shaved beards. Notices were put up outside ...

Karamay, a city in China’s mainly-Muslim Xinjiang region, has banned “large beards” and ‘Islamic’ clothing from public buses, reports the state-owned Karamay Daily. The ban covers “large beards” as ...

ZARQA/SHURA, Iraq, Nov 1 (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 ...

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 ...

What clothes women are allowed to wear and whether or not men can have bushy beards are being debated again in Muslim-majority Central Asia, this time in Kyrgyzstan. The parliament of the former ...

Dozens of Egyptian policemen suspended from work in February for growing Islamic beards protested outside the Interior Ministry on Wednesday and called on President Mohamed Mursi to secure their ...

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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