austere religious scolar

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Заголовки WaPo на смерть аль-Багдади:

 
Я так понимаю, автора первого уволили на месте за употребление t-word. Второй писали всей редакцией и это лучшее, что им удалось. Третий сочинил лично главред, потому что больше никто не осмелился. 
Есть и подробности:

He graduated from the University of Baghdad in 1996 and received a master’s degree in Koranic recitation from the Saddam University for Islamic Studies in 1999. Immersing himself in the arcane world of 7th-century religious codes, he grew increasingly conservative. Acquaintances remembered how the college-age Mr. Baghdadi took offense at the sight of men and women dancing in the same room during wedding celebrations.
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Later, former hostages would reveal that Mr. Baghdadi also kept a number of personal sex slaves during his years as the Islamic State’s leader, including slain American hostage Kayla Mueller and a number of captured Yazidi women.

Но танцев не было, всё было очень austere и religious.