Afghani Religious Police Ban `Titanic' Haircuts.Religious police in the Islamic theocracy theocracy Government by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided. In many theocracies, government leaders are members of the clergy, and the state's legal system is based on religious law. Theocratic rule was typical of early civilizations. of Afghanistan have arrested dozens of barbers for cutting young men's hair in the style worn by actor Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11 1974[1]) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor who garnered world wide fame for his role as Jack Dawson in Titanic. in the popular movie "Titanic Titanic (tītăn`ĭk), British liner that sank on the night of Apr. 14–15, 1912, after crashing into an iceberg in the N Atlantic S of Newfoundland. More than 1,500 lives were lost. ." "Titanic," the highest-grossing film of all time, is officially banned in Afghanistan, but copies on video have been smuggled smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. 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 according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. 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 Adj. 1. bent on - fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event" bent, dead set, out to cutting their long hair. |
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