Speaking of beards....You know, Maggief, I was more serious than joking.
Sadat once ordered bearded people loitering downtown Cairo to be arrested, their beards shaved, their heads shaved for good measure and released.
They said they vanished in two days...true story.
No wonder they assassinated him, may God bless his soul.
Speaking of beards....Machiavelli said "Do not do your enemy a small injury", by which he meant "Do not do something to an enemy which just pisses him off, without reducing his ability or willingness to retaliate". The Greeks also warned against going out of your way to humiliate an enemy.
Me, I would have "disappeared" the Islamist leadership.