Hizbul-Islam militants in Somalia ordered men in Mogadishu this week ... view expressed by Muslim scholars." Many Muslim scholars now do not see the beard as an obligation and do shave their ...

The Taliban has prohibited barbers in several provinces from shaving or trimming beards, claiming that the edict aligns with ...

Seventeenth-century poet John Donne once famously wrote that "no man is an island ... don't live in Arkansas, aren't Muslim and don't wear beards. When it comes to American law, no religion ...

A Muslim man who was due to fly out on his honeymoon with his pregnant wife said he was taken off the plane and questioned over terrorism because of his faith and his beard. Ahmed Ali was supposed ...

RFE/RL correspondents reported on November 24 that in recent weeks police in the city of Yangiyul, 20 kilometers from Tashkent, have summoned men and forced them to shave their beards. A local ...

NEW YORK-- A Muslim police officer, who sued the New York Police Department over a policy limiting beards allowed for religious ... said 1 millimeter of hair exists when a man is unshaven for ...

Five Muslim men arrested for an offence have alleged that a Rajgarh district jail officer forced them to shave their beards, following which a senior Madhya Pradesh prison official on Wednesday ...

The devoutly religious man said he could not cut his beard due to his faith, as he like many Muslim men believe growing and maintaining their beards was an act of their devotion to God and ...

“Everyone was ecstatic,” said Mustafa, a devout Muslim who continues to wear a beard. “We came out of ... After he won his case, an Orthodox Jewish man from New York City sought him out ...