I hope the following new article from Telegraph UK is not true, even if it is 50% true. I cannot imagine living in such a situation where symbolic or otherwise are banned just for the sake it. I want to just belief this is just a propaganda by the western media to paint a bad picture in Iraq. What do you think? Any comments and read other's comments?

They include a ban on women buying suggestively-shaped vegetables, according to one tribal leader in the western province of Anbar.

Sheikh Hameed al-Hayyes, a Sunni elder, told Reuters: "They even killed female goats because their private parts were not covered and their tails were pointed upward, which they said was haram.

"They regarded the cucumber as male and tomato as female. Women were not allowed to buy cucumbers, only men."