Is that a cucumber in your pocket....

....or you just happy to see me? What??? Off with your head!

Besides the terrible killings inflicted by the fanatics on those who refuse to pledge allegiance to them, Al-Qa'eda has lost credibility for enforcing a series of rules imposing their way of thought on the most mundane aspects of everyday life.

They include a ban on women buying suggestively-shaped vegetables, according to one tribal leader in the western province of Anbar.
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"They regarded the cucumber as male and tomato as female. Women were not allowed to buy cucumbers, only men."