NYT: A Haircut in Iraq Can Be the Death of the Barber

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/international/middleeast/18barber.html?ei=5094&en=a11f49118f911982&hp=&ex=1111122000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=

It was almost closing time in Sadiq Abdul Hussein's barbershop when a man in a black mask walked in, pulled out a pistol, and began spinning it on his finger, cowboy style.

The gunman was not after government officials or American collaborators. He had come because of the way Mr. Hussein cut hair.

Within seconds, the masked man opened fire, fatally wounding Mr. Hussein, 23, who lived long enough to describe the attack. The gunman also killed his partner and a customer.

In southern Baghdad, the hazards of life have come to this: gangs of militant Islamists are warning barbers that it is haram - forbidden - to shave men's beards or do Western-style haircuts. As many as 12 barbers have been killed, Iraqi officials say, including five in one day in late January. With little hope of police protection, most now refuse to offer the offending cuts, and have placed prominent signs in their front windows saying so.

in Iraq and Bush is a "genious" and a deep "thinker".

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Then HE could be a REALLY "deep" thinker!

:kick:

bush's LIBERATION and DEMOCRACY in action.

Those poor Eye-rackies weren't free to practice their religion before we got rid of Saddam. Now look at 'em! They're converting people left and right - even if they don't want to be!

The Iraqis are sooooo much better off, now.

Chicago, Odessa, St. Petersburg, and now Baghdad! yippee!

Soon, we'll have public beheadings of Iraqis in their football fields...

now that the Talibanization of Iraq is affecting men?

What is a "Western Style" haircut? A Mullet?
Well.....MIGHT agree with that...

Feel safer yet?

and I constantly keep hearing they miss SADDAM. That it was a more open society and women were allowed more freedoms.