A hairdresser trims a young woman's locks in a salon where ladies gather to primp and catch up on gossip in a Shiite-dominated neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007. The neighborhood is considered relatively safe, unlike many areas in mostly Sunni west Baghdad where extremists rule. According to their harsh interpretations of Islam, women should not look beautiful in public. Extremists have threatened hairdressers, blown up their shops and even killed some. Many now work in secret salons, only serving people they know, in their own houses.(AP Photo/ Diaa Hadid)I was going through photos on various websites and I stumbled across this. The blurb (quoted above) that accompanied it on the Yahoo site is enough by itself, but I wanted to include it here. I'm not sure what to say.
It's so hard to criticize this type of behavior when so many Christians have lost sight of the Two Greatest Commandments spoken by Jesus: love God with everything you have and love your neighbor as yourself. How can a person who does violence to innocent people live with himself?
On the other hand, how can our government believe the emissaries, politicos, and ambassadors of the Islamic nations when they talk about how peaceful their religion and people are? They appear to be a religion of violent retribution against any perceived transgression of the most benign religious tenets.
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