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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.

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.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...rdressers.html

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.

event horizon wrote:Indeed - these Islamists are resistance fighters fighting a just war against the brutal Hamas government - which, according to HRW, tortures political opponents and silences the media in Gaza.\