Beard Ban

Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music, the Justice Ministry said.

Islamic institution Darul Uloom Deoband has issued an order banning its students from shaving beards.

The Taliban have banned hairdressers in Afghanistan's Helmand province from shaving or trimming beards, a media report said.

Hairdressers in Pakistan's conservative northwest have announced a ban in their shops on "fashionable" beards, saying trendy facial hair violates Islamic law.

China has introduced new restrictions in the far-western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against Islamist extremism.

A beard is not acceptable for anyone in the Indian Air Force, no matter what religion, the Supreme Court said today, dismissing the petition of a Muslim officer who was sacked in 2008.

The New York Police Department says it will examine its policy banning beards after a federal class-action lawsuit was filed last week on behalf a Muslim officer who was suspended for violating the rule.

Amid an upsurge in separatist violence, a city in China's restive Xinjiang region has banned those in Islamic headscarves, burqas and with long beards from public transport.

A city in China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region has banned people with large beards or Islamic clothing from travelling on public buses, state media said, prompting outrage from an overseas rights group Wednesday.

Indian ambassador S. Jaishankar has welcomed US lawmakers plea to end US defence department's presumptive ban on Sikh Americans serving in the US military with their beards and turbans.

Lawmakers urged the Pentagon on Monday to lift a virtual ban on Sikhs serving in the US armed forces by easing the military-uniform policy to enable Sikhs to wear beards, long hair and turbans in accordance with the customs of their religion.

An Iraqi government decree banning soldiers and police from wearing beards on duty has revived a debate over religious practices in a country where sectarian divisions between Shi'ite and Sunni still fester close to the surface.

An influential Sikh group in the US has planned to launch a campaign this Vaisakhi, demanding the US Army to end its ban on turban. Sikh Coalition said that on April 14 it would file a formal complaint with DDIG on behalf of two Sikh medical professionals, who have been told by the Army to remove their turbans and cut their unshorn hair and beards ...

Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music, the Justice Ministry said.

Islamic institution Darul Uloom Deoband has issued an order banning its students from shaving beards.

The Taliban have banned hairdressers in Afghanistan's Helmand province from shaving or trimming beards, a media report said.

Hairdressers in Pakistan's conservative northwest have announced a ban in their shops on "fashionable" beards, saying trendy facial hair violates Islamic law.

China has introduced new restrictions in the far-western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against Islamist extremism.

A beard is not acceptable for anyone in the Indian Air Force, no matter what religion, the Supreme Court said today, dismissing the petition of a Muslim officer who was sacked in 2008.

The New York Police Department says it will examine its policy banning beards after a federal class-action lawsuit was filed last week on behalf a Muslim officer who was suspended for violating the rule.

Amid an upsurge in separatist violence, a city in China's restive Xinjiang region has banned those in Islamic headscarves, burqas and with long beards from public transport.

A city in China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region has banned people with large beards or Islamic clothing from travelling on public buses, state media said, prompting outrage from an overseas rights group Wednesday.

Indian ambassador S. Jaishankar has welcomed US lawmakers plea to end US defence department's presumptive ban on Sikh Americans serving in the US military with their beards and turbans.

Lawmakers urged the Pentagon on Monday to lift a virtual ban on Sikhs serving in the US armed forces by easing the military-uniform policy to enable Sikhs to wear beards, long hair and turbans in accordance with the customs of their religion.

An Iraqi government decree banning soldiers and police from wearing beards on duty has revived a debate over religious practices in a country where sectarian divisions between Shi'ite and Sunni still fester close to the surface.

An influential Sikh group in the US has planned to launch a campaign this Vaisakhi, demanding the US Army to end its ban on turban. Sikh Coalition said that on April 14 it would file a formal complaint with DDIG on behalf of two Sikh medical professionals, who have been told by the Army to remove their turbans and cut their unshorn hair and beards ...