[DAWN] Outside a mosque in China's restive west, a government-appointed Moslem holy man was dodging a foreign news hound's question about why young men of the Uighur ethnic minority don't have beards when one such youth interrupted."Why don't you just tell them the truth?" he shouted to the holy man under the nervous gaze of several coppers who had been tailing the news hounds all day in the oasis city of Aksu.
"It's because the government doesn't allow beards."