Os Cangaceiros
19th August 2013, 00:08
This may be the mustache that launched a thousand death threats, yet a Pakistani man, Malik Amir Mohammad Khan Afridi, is still refusing to shave the 30-inch soup strainer that recently got him into trouble with some local militants.
According to Al Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/08/2013815114951805814.html), militia group and Taliban ally Lashkar-e-Islam deemed Afridis whiskers to be un-Islamic and demanded $500 in protection money, which he refused to pay. The group then kidnapped the 48-year-old businessman and held him hostage in a cave for a month until he finally shaved.
Last year, Afridi, unafraid, grew it back spending up to 30 minutes a day waxing, combing and fortifying his facial furniture and the death threats began again. To keep his wife and ten children safe, he left his hometown and family behind, and once again took to the road. He now sees them only rarely.
The cocktail of oils, soaps and ointments he uses to keep his follicles fabulous cost around $150 a month but Afridi receives help from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa administration, which pays him a moustache bursary of $50 a month as a symbolic gesture of the states appreciation for the bravery and virility supposedly associated with the manly growth.
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/16/mustache_elicits_taliban_death_threats/
What a hero! No surrender to anti-mustache despots!
According to Al Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/08/2013815114951805814.html), militia group and Taliban ally Lashkar-e-Islam deemed Afridis whiskers to be un-Islamic and demanded $500 in protection money, which he refused to pay. The group then kidnapped the 48-year-old businessman and held him hostage in a cave for a month until he finally shaved.
Last year, Afridi, unafraid, grew it back spending up to 30 minutes a day waxing, combing and fortifying his facial furniture and the death threats began again. To keep his wife and ten children safe, he left his hometown and family behind, and once again took to the road. He now sees them only rarely.
The cocktail of oils, soaps and ointments he uses to keep his follicles fabulous cost around $150 a month but Afridi receives help from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa administration, which pays him a moustache bursary of $50 a month as a symbolic gesture of the states appreciation for the bravery and virility supposedly associated with the manly growth.
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/16/mustache_elicits_taliban_death_threats/
What a hero! No surrender to anti-mustache despots!