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 ...

An elderly Muslim man was allegedly attacked by a group of men who forced him to shave his beard and shout Hindu religious slogans in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. A video of the incident ...

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

Reuters A beard is often considered a symbol of devout Muslim men: The Prophet Muhammad is believed to have worn a beard, and religious Muslims try to emulate him. But many Islamic scholars argue ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...