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From: zvs@bby.oz.au (Zev Sero)
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Subject: Re: Goats,Beards,and Action (Article from MuslimWise).
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Date: 11 Dec 90 17:02:12 GMT
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I would like to know more about this.  Is it a requirement of Islam
that Muslims wear beards?  Or is it perhaps only required of `clergy'?
Is trimming permitted?  I ask because 99% of the pictures of Arabs and
other Muslims that I see (in papers or whatever) do not have beards.
I was not aware that Islam had an idea of beards being something
important, until I noticed that all the Iranian Ayatollahs had them.
I then thought perhaps it was only a Shi'ite practise, or perhaps it
was just an Iranian fashion.  Could somebody please tell me the story
about Islam and beards?

Thanks.  		Zev (a bearded Jew)
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	                                Zev Sero  -  zvs@bby.oz.au
Megalomaniacs are simply people who know damn well they can run the universe
better then God or the present governors.	- Abner Doon (Orson S. Card)