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From this November 30, 2012 article in the Washington Post:
- Italy Kicks Imam Out Because He Told Children Listening To Music Is A Sin
Vicenza imam expelled after banning kids from listening to music A radical imam based at an Islamic community centre in the northern city of Vicenza has been expelled from Italy after it emerged that he had told pupils at a local primary school...
- Sanctuary:more Islamist Fighters Deploy In Northern Mali
October 22, 2012by Voice of America NewsHundreds of additional Islamist fighters have deployed in northern Mali, as neighboring countries make plans to send troops to the troubled nation.According to witnesses, the fighters began deploying last week,...
- Gorecki: Symphony No. 3
Stunning music. The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs by Henryk Gorecki Soprano: Isabel Bayrakdaraian, Sinfonietta Cracovia, conducted by John Axelrod. Taken from "HOLOCAUST - A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz". For the first time since its liberation,...
- Life Is Colourless
Students at an Islamic madrassa burn thousands of DVDs, videos and music CDs in Islamabad, Pakistan. The event, reminiscent of the early days of the Taliban in Afghanistan, took place within two kilometers of the Pakistani presidential palace, as well...
- The Musical Motivation Of The Free World
I don't know about you, but one of the things that strengthens my determination and motivation is music. Certain songs just do it for me. I've collected them over the years. One of the songs I've just started listening to is The Champion In...
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More Arab Spring: Music Silenced In Northern Mali
From this November 30, 2012 article in the Washington Post:
In northern Mali, music silenced as Islamists drive out artistsThis kind of destruction is the harvest of the Arab Spring. Get used to it and expect more of the same. The West's leaders insist upon Islamophilia and the whitewash of Islam.
Khaira Arby, one of Africa’s most celebrated musicians, has performed all over the world, but there is one place she cannot visit: her native city of Timbuktu, a place steeped in history and culture but now ruled by religious extremists.
One day, they broke into Arby’s house and destroyed her instruments. Her voice was a threat to Islam, they said, even though one of her most popular songs praised Allah.
“They told my neighbors that if they ever caught me, they would cut my tongue out,” said Arby, sadness etched on her broad face.
Northern Mali, one of the richest reservoirs of music on the continent, is now an artistic wasteland. Hundreds of musicians have fled south to Bamako, the capital, and to other towns and neighboring countries, driven out by hard-liners who have decreed any form of music — save for the tunes set to Koranic verses — as being against their religion.
The exiles describe a shattering of their culture, in which playing music brings lashes with whips, even prison time, and MP3 and cassette players are seized and destroyed.
“We can no longer live like we used to live,” lamented Aminata Wassidie Traore, 36, a singer who fled her village of Dire, near Timbuktu. “The Islamists do not want anyone to sing anymore.”
In Malian society, music anchors every ceremony, from births and circumcisions to weddings and prayers for rains. Village bards known as griots sang traditional songs and poems of the desert, passing down centuries-old tales of empires, heroes and battles, as well as their community’s history. In this manner, memories were preserved from generation to generation, along with ancient African traditions and ways of life....
- Italy Kicks Imam Out Because He Told Children Listening To Music Is A Sin
Vicenza imam expelled after banning kids from listening to music A radical imam based at an Islamic community centre in the northern city of Vicenza has been expelled from Italy after it emerged that he had told pupils at a local primary school...
- Sanctuary:more Islamist Fighters Deploy In Northern Mali
October 22, 2012by Voice of America NewsHundreds of additional Islamist fighters have deployed in northern Mali, as neighboring countries make plans to send troops to the troubled nation.According to witnesses, the fighters began deploying last week,...
- Gorecki: Symphony No. 3
Stunning music. The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs by Henryk Gorecki Soprano: Isabel Bayrakdaraian, Sinfonietta Cracovia, conducted by John Axelrod. Taken from "HOLOCAUST - A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz". For the first time since its liberation,...
- Life Is Colourless
Students at an Islamic madrassa burn thousands of DVDs, videos and music CDs in Islamabad, Pakistan. The event, reminiscent of the early days of the Taliban in Afghanistan, took place within two kilometers of the Pakistani presidential palace, as well...
- The Musical Motivation Of The Free World
I don't know about you, but one of the things that strengthens my determination and motivation is music. Certain songs just do it for me. I've collected them over the years. One of the songs I've just started listening to is The Champion In...