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October 8th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The United States’ obsession over a Muslim prisoner’s beard is “laughable,” says a prominent American commentator.
Dr. Randy Short made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV while commenting on a US Supreme Court session Tuesday on whether Muslim inmate Gregory Holt could wear a half-inch (1.3 cm) beard due to religious reasons in an Arkansas prison.
The Varner Supermax prison demands the prisoners be clean-shaven unless a medical condition requires them to do otherwise.
Short said the rule was a sign of “Anglo-American racism,” and “Islamophobia,” likening the situation in all US prisons to that of the notorious Guantanamo.
“They don’t like Islam in the prisons… and once again you see these people insulting another faith or another religious group,” he said, adding, “these men should be free to grow the beard they want to.”
Arkansas Deputy Attorney General David Curran says the inmates could use the beard to hide something in there or change their appearance later by shaving the beard.
Both the federal district and appeals courts ruled against the case and Holt, who is serving a life sentence, has to wait for a Supreme Court ruling, due by the end of June.
According to US media, the inmate had threatened to abduct former US President George W. Bush’s daughters.
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