Posted on 05/08/2013 6:03:43 PM PDT by cunning_fish
Police officers in Russia forced three men in a Muslim cafe to cut their beards at gunpoint, it has been claimed. During an inspection of a Muslim cafe in the Russian city of Surgut police officers apparently threatened some visitors with automatic weapons and with a lighter. One of the men claims an officer held a lighter to his chin and told him 'cut it off or I will burn it off'. The incident allegedly took place on March 3 in the cafe located near a mosque as the men were eating after evening prayers. One of the men said he was forced to use scissors to cut off his long beard. It is believed there were 15 officers in masks and they arrived in four cars. According to Red Hot Russia, witnesses saw people in the uniform of riot police (OMON) burst into cafe place and force visitors onto their knees. Afterwards it claims several people were taken to the police station, where the law enforcement officers checked their documents. It is believed there has been an internal investigation launched by the Russian police. Russian news agencies have said the officers were implementing the rules of 'Peter the Great' who ruled the Tsardom of Russia in the late 1600s. He commanded all of his courtiers and officials to cut off their long beards and imposed an annual beard tax on those who refused.
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The only time I’ve been more proud of the Russkies was when they decided to leave the Somali Pirates 600 miles from shore in a leaky boat with no compass.
In fact Russian OMON forces are notorious to be a dump for a former Marines with lowest IQ and biggest muscles. Most of them were deployed to some kind of Asscrackistan before and has really little love to bearded Muslims.
Next step is to go “sharia” on them and cut the beards off at the collar bone...
until Peter's time, the Tsardom was Eastern, Mongolian even in dress and outlook
Peter was westernized and aimed to drag Russia to being European
And the action against beards was one of them, then also his marriage to a German princess (as an aside, after Peter, each of his descendants married a German, such that by 1815, Tsar Alexander was nearly pure-blood German) and his movement against the "Old Believers"
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