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Su Feb 13 -

ADVICE OR MEDDLING?

*A mirrored ceiling in your bedroom is fine, as is driving an American car or having a facelift. Eating caviare, however, is forbidden, as is a quiet chess game.

So goes the advice dished out to millions of Iraqi Shi’ites by the nearest thing their country has to an online agony uncle: the website of the country’s most senior cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani.*

+ This is a soft, but informative, background feature piece by Colin Freeman.

:: Scotland on Sunday ::

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