Hamas's New Order Exacts Toll On Gazans

Washington Post ^ | 17 Sep 2007 | Scott Wilson

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GAZA CITY -- For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer rooms, the beach club shows how Hamas is consolidating its hold here three months after seizing power.

Bushy beards and black head-to-toe cloaks for women have become common at the club, which the armed Islamic movement torched in June after routing the secular Fatah party on the streets. The facility has been rebranded the al-Aqsa Resort, with a new logo featuring the revered mosque complex in Jerusalem next to a beach umbrella. Hamas followers collect the $2.50 entrance fee.

[docbnj]

Bushy beards and --- cloaks for women? How do they get the women to grow beards, or does it come naturally? Maybe there is a reason they want such women covered up. Anyway, those followers of the false prophet do not sound as if they like to have any fun. Even cutting off heads of infidels can't make up for the dreary life of an Hamas member.

[ari-freedom]

You had to ask

[BigFinn]

A good read about life in an Islamic state.