TAIF: Long hair became the symbol of the 1960s counter-cultural movement that opposed the war in Vietnam, among other things. But to a certain member of the religious police in Taif, it is a symbol of immorality and vice. So when a local member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice encountered a young Saudi man (shebab) working (yes, working) as a sales clerk he decided to haul the youth into custody. According to a report in a local newspaper on Thursday, the young man was forced to shave his head of his vice before being allowed to return to the virtue of holding down a job in a country where young Saudi men have an employment problem, and where many of them shun sales clerk duties. The head of the religious police in Makkah province told the daily that he is going to investigate the matter, urging his agents not to be driven by personal judgment when on the job.