BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Iraqi government decree banning soldiers and police from wearing beards on duty has revived a debate over religious practices in a country where sectarian divisions between Shi'ite and Sunni still fester close to the surface. Iraq has long allowed police and soldiers to wear beards to a certain length, but in April the interior ministry began ordering that they must be …
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