Palestinian Moderates Hate Beards
Charles Johnson
Wed May 23, 2007 at 9:41 am PDT • Views: 360
The “moderate” Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is gunning down men in Gaza who wear beards.
Once, Hamas members were afraid to wear beards for fear of being arrested by Israel’s security forces. Today, they are once again afraid of appearing in public with beards - this time for fear that they will be killed or kidnapped by Fatah militiamen in the Gaza Strip.
Sources close to Hamas said over the weekend that at least 10 bearded men have been shot and killed in the past week after being stopped in the street by Fatah gunmen.
One case was caught on camera and has since appeared on the Youtube Web site. The film shows several Fatah gunmen shooting a bearded man in the legs. As the man lies in a pool of blood in the street crying for help, a Fatah gunman approaches him and fires at his head from an automatic rifle, killing him instantly.
“This man was just an ordinary citizen who happened to wear a beard,” said a Hamas official. “It’s become very dangerous to appear with a beard on the streets of the Gaza Strip.”
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