The Bearded Villains

[kpete]

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Nothing fits the stereotyped image of terrorists quite like a group of bearded hipsters posing for a photoshoot in a field in Sweden.

At least that’s what one Swedish passerby thought this weekend when he mistook 30 men gathered with a black flag for the Islamic State and called the police.

Turns out the men weren’t terrorists at all. They were gathered just north of the city of Jonkoping for the monthly meeting of their international beard club, the Bearded Villains. As for the flag? Other than the fact it’s black and white, it looks nothing like the Islamic State’s.

“We lined up for a photoshoot, 30 men from the club with our flag, and suddenly we see two police officers,” Andreas Fransson, a member of the group, told the Jonkoping-Post, a Swedish newspaper.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/12/these-arent-the-beards-youre-looking-for-islamic-state-sweden/?
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