Why did the Taliban ban long hair?

[randolph85]

When most ttp are long haired?

i can ask why they banned internet, tv, and the obvious stuff but the long hair thing is more interesting to me.

beside media, i have family who lived in kabul at the time which can attest that they banned long hair.

[Masha]

y would they ban long hair?

[IamDZJ]

do some reading on techniques of indoctrination and propaganda. you will understand everything that taliban did and the reasons behind them.

[Talal]

this guy had copyrights ?

[akbarkhan]

do some reading on techniques of indoctrination and propaganda. you will understand everything that taliban did and the reasons behind them.

Young lady, you are doing nothing but regurgitating other people's propaganda. Perhaps, you should do some reading on your country's history and the religion of your forefathers?

[IamDZJ]

perhaps not

[akbarkhan]

perhaps not

In which case, you have neither the historical insight nor the expertise to make such comments.

[Fromswat]

This is a lie. I worked in Nangarhar during that era. This is propaganda. I am probably older than most if you. Most of you were probably in diapers during the civil war.

[randolph85]

Afghani Religious Police Ban `Titanic' Haircuts.


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Religious police in the Islamic theocracy of Afghanistan have arrested dozens of barbers for cutting young men's hair in the style worn by actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the popular movie "Titanic."

"Titanic," the highest-grossing film of all time, is officially banned in Afghanistan, but copies on video have been smuggled in from Pakistan, making the film an underground favorite. Some young men were apparently taken with the long, floppy forelocks DiCaprio wore in the film and have asked barbers to imitate the style.

All of this was too much for the country's religious police, known as the Department of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. According to reports, 22 to 28 barbers have been arrested for giving the DiCaprio-style haircuts, and some young men caught wearing the cut in public have had their hair snipped off by scissors-wielding police.

The crackdown is nationwide. "They have arrested barbers from Khair Khana, Taimani, Karte Parwan and Charahi Ansari areas," an anonymous barber told the London Times. "The only reason is they say the barbers cut the youths' hair in the 'Titanic' style. The Taliban say we are popularizing anti-Islamic hairstyles."

The Taliban seem preoccupied with men's hair issues. After taking control of much of the country in 1996, they banned long hair and ordered all men to wear beards. Last year, several visiting football players from Pakistan were reportedly chased from the field by zealous religious police, bent on cutting their long hair.

[randolph85]

also, there are beardless men marching in their military parade in kabul.

Taliban parade, Kabul, Afghanistan - YouTube

[IamDZJ]

In which case, you have neither the historical insight nor the expertise to make such comments.

sue me

[IamDZJ]

randolf that could be the beginning. i remember when they took over kabul the first time, they were alot different.

[TheCongo]

also, there are beardless men marching in their military parade in kabul.

Taliban parade, Kabul, Afghanistan - YouTube

Dumbass, that's probably because they were too young to be able to grow a beard or they are simply unable. In case you did not know, many Hazaras and Uzbeks are unable to grow beards.

Quit wasting your time trying to pick out baseless bull**** with which to smother the Taliban. You clearly spend too much of your time mulling over them. Get a life, retard...

[TheCongo]

This is a lie. I worked in Nangarhar during that era. This is propaganda. I am probably older than most if you. Most of you were probably in diapers during the civil war.

It obviously is a lie considering the Prophet (saw) too had shoulder length hair at various points in his life. Many mullahs in Afghanistan have long hair for this reason.

Some idiot relies on ABC news to feed him trash stories about a country 7000 miles away which he otherwise doesnt know **** about.

[Afghanistan2010]

I have no information on this ...and even that what these sons of monkies in europe and elsewhere some talk about something that is called ban on women education and teaching was aswell not banned to your astonishment.