Posted on 11/10/2014 5:01:56 AM PST by winoneforthegipper
he first two minutes and 52 seconds of Dawlat al-Islam Qamat are undeniably beautiful. It is little more than an Arabic chant, sung by a man whose voice is so relaxed you expect him to drift off halfway through. It sounds timeless – as if it has been dug up from the eighth century. The man’s melody has got a gentle swing, something you could easily imagine a jazz drummer playing behind to give it some oomph. Soon he starts layering his voice, so it sounds like a whole choir is trading lines, the song’s impact growing as he does. Musically, it’s better than just about any other religious song you could name.
But just as you are starting to enjoy it – perhaps thinking you might tell your yoga teacher to play it in class – some sound effects drop in. There’s a sword being unsheathed, the stomp-stomp-stomp of soldiers’ feet and some stuttering gunfire. And it is about that point you remember exactly what you are listening to. This is, to give it its English name, My Ummah, Dawn Has Appeared. It is the most popular song in the Islamic State. It is, arguably, the world’s newest national anthem. “The Islamic State has arisen by the blood of the righteous,” it goes. “The Islamic State has arisen by the jihad of the pious.” God Save the Queen it isn’t.
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Well—whatever floats your boat……...
Hmmmmm. I listened to it. But I decided to stick with The Eagles and Roy Orbison.
Someone should check obama’s playlists....lol
Ali got run over by a bacon truck
coming home from our mosque on ramadan
You may say there’s no such thing as Ekrich
but as for me and Ali we believe.
Sorry Alex, this is non descript arabpop. For a reminder of what your paremts were taught in school was beautiful, this was: O Divine Redemer by Gounod.O Divine Redeemer- http://youtu.be/tQPC-SX-Rvw
Sade Tamimi is the poster on Youtube
Go on...u may have a hit there...lol
Darn those savages. I named my beautiful black female cat
‘Isis’ six years ago after the Egyptian goddess.
Now they’ve ruined it. I’m ashamed to tell anyone what her name is. LOL
Yeah....lol
There is I think a Swiss chocolatier named ISIS so after losing a couple Million dollars in sales over these months they have finally changed their name...lol
LOL. I gotta tell you. It's not even the middle of November. But you've got post of the month as far as I'm concerned.
Now if only someone will parody the whole song and put it on YouTube.
Yeah..like Ayes diet candy. (Remember that?) The outbreak of Aids killed it.
Ayds....should have read.
With their reported hyper-allergy to anything pagan (as though Christians, who refrained, are the bad guys), I’m surprised that ISIS has not already abolished its own name as though it was a Buddhist statue to be bombed.
We could embarrass the dickens out of ISIS by waving around effigies of this goddess. (But watch your neck!)
I know. But why didn’t they rename it to Helpz or something similar. All their eggs were in the basket of that name.
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