New passport picture rules upset Muslim fundies in Algeria – and beyond

SAUDI Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh, has stuck in nose into a row over passport pictures in Algeria. The dotty old goat – regarded as a moral authority for many Algerian Islamists – has issued a fatwa following a controversy that arose when Algeria’s government ruled that women should pose for passport photographs without headscarves. [The Freethinker] Read more