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Since gay men are also prosecuted by the Islamic extremists in the Hamas government, I guess this ban is aimed at the straight male palestinian hairdressers…But then again, the Islamic sharia law in Gaza requires all women to have their hair completely covered at all times, so what are these guys dressing, anyway?

Hamas bans men from working in women’s hairdressers

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women’s hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders

Reprinted from Telegraph.co.uk

“The Palestinian authorities (in Gaza) have decided to ban men from working in women’s beauty parlours following instructions from Interior Minister Fathi Hammad,” said a statement on the website of the Hamas-run police force in Gaza.

“Anyone who breaches this decision will be arrested and tried.”

The announcement is part of a campaign by Hamas to introduce more Islamic customs to the Gaza Strip.

The majority of Gaza residents are conservative Muslims, but Hamas is under growing pressure from radical groups to prove its fundamentalist credentials by imposing harsher edicts.

Women are forbidden from showing their hair in public to men who are not in their family.

Over the last three years, several beauty parlours and hair salons in the Gaza Strip have been the target of explosions and other attacks, which Hamas have blamed on radical Islamist groups who share the ideology of al Qaeda.

Such groups seek to defy Hamas rule in Gaza and criticise its leaders for not implementing strict Islamic law.