No Country For Bearded Young Men: Only ''Well-Groomed'' Tajiks
DUSHANBE -- Authorities in Tajikistan are being accused of stepping up a yearslong campaign against full beards by denying international passports to men who turn up shaggy for their
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Free Quote +13,000 Tajikistan Men Shaved in Fight Against Hardline Islam
Authorities in Tajikistan forcibly shaved nearly 13,000 men whose beards were judged to be “overly long and unkept” last year as part of a police campaign to eradicate conservative Islam —...
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Free Quote +In Which Country Is a Beard Not Allowed?
In Tajikistan, men under 60 can''t have a beard because the government links facial hair to radicalism. This leads to strict police enforcement and reported incidents of forced shaving.
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Free Quote +In Battle With Radical Islam, Tajik Police Attack Beards
In recent weeks, police in Tajikistan have been issuing warnings to women wearing Islamic hijab and shaving off men''s beards. The campaign seems to have been sparked by a speech
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Free Quote +Migrant Wins Deportation Fight as Home Country Would Mandate
A British asylum seeker was able to avoid deportation by arguing that returning to Tajikistan would force him to shave his beard. The Asylum Court decided that he qualified for
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Free Quote +Tajikistan''s battle against beards to ''fight radicalisation''
Shaving beards is part of a government campaign targeting trends that are deemed "alien and inconsistent with Tajik culture". Earlier this week, police in Tajikistan''s Khatlon region said...
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Free Quote +Struggling to Stem Extremism, Tajikistan Targets Beards and Head
With a population of 10 million, Tajikistan has many challenges that counterterrorism experts say make it an incubator for extremism: poverty, poor education, high unemployment and
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Free Quote +Migrant Successfully Fights Off Deportation Case Because Home
An asylum seeker in the U.K. successfully fought off deportation by arguing that he would be forced to shave off his beard if returned to his home country of Tajikistan.
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Free Quote +Battling the beard — Eliminating extremism one shave at a time?
Emomali Rahmon, Tajikistan''s president since 1994, has decreed all beards to be shaved. He is fighting the rising tide of Islamic extremism one follicle at a time. The police in Tajikistan...
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Free Quote +Tajik Asylum Seeker Wins UK Appeal Over Fear of Forced Beard Shaving
Tajikistan has in recent years pursued an unofficial campaign linking beards to religious extremism. A BBC investigation found that in one region alone, police forcibly shaved nearly 13,000
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