Bearded Lebanese hipsters are getting mistaken for jihadis

Fashionable beards flourish here, but their soaring style value coincided with a spate of jihadi attacks. On a stroll 'round the streets where these young bearded men go for beers, it seems everyone has a story of a misunderstanding. [...]

"My tale is the endgame of many, many, many tales and many run-ins with the so-called security forces in our country," said emcee Hussein Sharafadine. At the beginning of this year he became notorious when he was arrested and a photograph of him in handcuffs circulated in the media.

"The cop put a gun in my head and told me, 'I'm gonna burn your beard,'" he says. [NPR]