[huldah1776]

Hmmm, Paul said in Ephesians 5:18-20 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation but be filled with the Spirit,

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord:

always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;..."

Opposite ideologies.

[Mercat]

Not so. At the folk musical festivals I’ve been to, the real musicians don’t get wasted. They’re high on music. I guess it’s the audience members who think that the only way that they can get high is with drugs.

[Sherman Logan]

I hope now in Mali’s hours of need that those who have money, those who have influence and those who so often sing of freedom and put their arms around their African colleagues on stage are prepared to stand up and be counted.

Will they support military action, the only thing that will free the musicians of Mali?

Or will they preen themselves on "standing up" and making a cost-free (indeed ego and prestige boosting) public demand that the repression stop?

[Fiji Hill]

The Devil is Afraid of Music--Sidney Firman's Radio Band

[nuconvert]

While her favorite album sounds interesting, she’s incredibly naive (ignorant) not to have known that islamists would forbid music

[Sherman Logan]

I assumed that the total prohibition of music was just a particular interpretation of this group.

So I looked it up. Turns out it's a core component of sharia. Those Muslims who don't enforce the law are just ignoring it.