Islamic Law - Police Raid Beauty Parlor
-men arrested for receiving haircuts from women:
BANDA ACEH, Aceh province (AP): Enforcing Islamic law, Indonesian police raided a dozen beauty parlors and arrested 13 beauticians for failing to wear Islamic attire and two male customers for having their hair cut by women, police said Thursday.
Police chief Bahagia Hadi said raids on beauty parlors would be intensified in the Indonesian province of Aceh because such places were often found to be used for prostitution.
Bahagia said police found used condoms during a raid Wednesday in one of the parlors in the capital of the tsunami-ravaged province, Banda Aceh.
The 13 female parlor workers were arrested because they wore tight shirts and jeans but no head scarves, while the two men should have known that Islamic Sharia law states they can only receive haircuts from male hairdressers, he said.
All were released after being admonished by the Sharia Agency,he said.
This is not the first time someone has faced jail time for breaking the "haircut" laws of Islam.
KABUL, Afghanistan, May 22, 2001 - At the Ahmed brothers’ barbershop in the capital city of the world’s most radical Islamic regime, haircuts can be dangerous. The wildly popular Leonardo di Caprio cut, dubbed the “Titanic” by locals, has teen-age boys lining up every day, eager to be transformed into American heartthrobs. But the “Titanic” is a serious offense in the eyes of the Taliban, the staunchly anti-Western Islamic militants who rule this nation. Said Ahmed, the older of the two barbers, has been imprisoned twice for his artistry. But business is business — despite the Taliban.
...the Taliban imposed an unbending brand of Islam on a war-torn nation ruined by civil war and the Soviet invasion more than two decades ago. In today’s Afghanistan, thieves routinely have their limbs amputated. Women, banned from pursuing most careers, are executed for adultery. Pop music and dancing are banned, along with television and videos.
Even kite flying and laughing in public are censured.
In "lesser" important news : Supreme Court overturns terror conviction against Ba'asyir:
JAKARTA (Antara): Supreme Court Thursday overturned a conviction against cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir on conspiracy charges in the 2002 Bali bombings.
The cleric has maintained his innocence and denounced the allegations as a plot by Washington to silence his campaign for Islamic law.
Hurray for the Abu campaign! Well, that's enough to make me Islamophobic. And people like this want to pray at our airports? What on earth can they be praying for?
Labels: Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, Bali, Indonesia, Sharia Law, Taliban
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