Proper American Icon

While studying the photos of the latest Muslim bonfires, I noticed KFC signs more than once. Then I came across this comment in a recent New York Review of Books article which discussed madrasas - the fundamentalist Islamic schools: "Pakistan..banning the public performance of music and depictions of the human form. The one exception to this, bizarrely, is the image of Colonel Sanders outside the new Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Peshawar. This was apparently because the Colonel was judged to be sporting a properly Islamic beard."