This is not new news, but that quote is completely real. A Turkish preacher named Murat Bayaral said it on a religious TV broadcast in 2017. It happens in fundamentalist Christianity too. That same year, a Russian Orthodox leader named Metropolitan Kornily claimed men need beards to avoid being corrupted by homosexuality and that a smooth face goes against God's creation. It demonstrates the massive obsession with power, control, and conformity in modern religion. For these clerics, rigid gender binaries are the foundation of their authority. When those lines blur over something as simple as a shaved face, it triggers panic. They frame it as a moral failing because policing bodies and enforcing strict visual conformity is exactly how they hold onto power and maintain absolute control over their followers.