[Tarantulas]

Anthem Artists website showing Nour Mehana show date on July 1 at the Sycuan Casino & Resort:

http://www.anthemartists.com/AA_show_archives.html


Here's an album by the band:

http://www.almazaj.com/WMCshop.cgi?action=dbview&id=TMP1210


A page with some videos of the band:

http://hometown.aol.com/musicaxis/mehana.htm


From all the hits on Google about this band, they look fairly popular and they have at least two albums out. I suppose it's possible they could be a sleeper cell but it doesn't seem likely.

Someone in that blog I linked to commented that Muslims are supposed to pray something like 5 times a day, and they have to kneel down to do it. That would be one explanation for why all of them used the bathroom at different times.

[Amerimom2]

Muslims are supposed to pray something like 5 times a day, and they have to kneel down to do it if that was the case, prayers could be done kneeling at their seats. I doubt there is enough room to kneel in the bathroom unless your head is in the toilet.

[Outlaw76]

"Someone in that blog I linked to commented that Muslims are supposed to pray something like 5 times a day, and they have to kneel down to do it. That would be one explanation for why all of them used the bathroom at different times."

Have you ever been on an Airline and entered the restroom? I don't think my kids could kneel on the floor. Last one I was on had room for my feet on the ground - turning was a chore. I suppose you could kneel on the toilet seat, but you couldn't choose the direction you were facing? (I believe they face the east when praying.) Also, Toilets are considered 'Unclean' and they certainly wouldn't be praying in an unclean place. No, they weren't using the restroom to pray...

[johnfrink]

There's another thing that many musicians like to do that would make them

(a) secretive,
(b) visit the lavatory frequently
(c) paranoid.

If Jacobsen had said that they also had a strange fondness for beef jerky, I think we all would have ID'd the problem instantly.

[Junior_G]

Listening to Nour Mehana, he sounds just like that creepy arabic chanting music from the murder videos Al Qaeda keeps putting out. Wonder if they sample from the Mehana collection when they're releasing their latest beheading video.