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In case you thought it was pasta dreadlocks, think again: it was a colander. Austrian businessman Niko Alm fought for three years before a psychologist deemed him fit to be photographed for his driving licence wearing a pasta strainer on his head. It was all about religious freedom: Alm, who calls himself a “Pastafarian”, belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, whose core doctrine is lampooning religion. The spaghetti monster church was founded in 2005 to oppose the Kansas school board in the US that intended to teach the theory of intelligent design in biology classes as an alternative to evolution. Pastafarians insist that the world was created according to a flawed design by a stone-drunk Flying Spaghetti Monster, which is why it is the way it is. “My headwear,” said Alm, “has now been recognised by the Republic of Austria.”
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