Posted on 08/28/2021 11:12:45 AM PDT by george76
The Taliban has said it will ban music in public in Afghanistan because it is forbidden in Islam, despite the assurances given by the insurgent group that it will be more tolerant than it was two decades ago.
The restriction on public playing of music acts as a return to one of the harshest policies of the Taliban in the 1990s.
The previous emirate only allowed religious chants, with nearly all other forms of music forbidden because it was viewed as a distraction that could encourage evil thoughts.
In an interview with The New York Times, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid laid out the group's plans to rule Afghanistan. From 1996 to 2001, music in public in the country was taboo, while the Taliban ruled the country.
Music is forbidden in Islam...the only exception to the ban during the Taliban's original governance in Afghanistan was for some vocal religious pieces with no musical accompaniment," Mujahid said in quotes by the Times.
The Taliban have long considered music a dangerous and deceitful influence. And with the insurgents in control of Afghanistan again, musicians are in hiding, afraid the Taliban will hunt them down.
"But we're just promoting arts and music and freedom of expression and we're not trying to harm anyone's culture," a local musician said.
In reaction to reports the Islamic militants are already extracting vengeance against those who resisted them, Mujahid said the group wants to "build the future and forget what happened in the past."
The prohibition on music, despite the insurgent group representative's claims that people won't be "pressured" to abide by the rule, has left Afghans wondering what other laws from the Taliban's 1990 emirate will be enforced.
"It is a totally uneducated and almost illiterate people who are misinterpreting Islamic ideology," Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, the Afghani-Australian founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, said in quotes by Digital Music News.
"There is nothing explicitly written against music in the Holy Quran," Sarmast said, pointing out that the Taliban's interpretation is based on a controversial "hadith," a report on the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad.
In 2014, a suicide bomber attacked a French cultural center in Kabul during an orchestral performance. One died and scores were seriously hurt. Sarmast was the target of the attack.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The group said it hated that Sarmast was bringing music to the country's youth.
Maybe they could start with ABBA?
Cue the mainstream media’s Taliban apologists.
“This was a good move by the Taliban. Loud music can hurt a baby’s ears.”
“It’s their country. If they want to ban music - or slaughter people - that’s their business.”
Etc.
Our progressive leaders drool at that level of control.
They want to fix all the problems in the US.
Even ZZ TOP? WTF?
They outlawed kite flying the last time they were in charge.
Ah, autumn in Afghanistan. The smell of burning flesh and the anguished screams of agony from the immolated infidels.
Reality here is that the Taliban is going to govern with a strict and literal interpreting of Sharia Law.
This exactly how they ruled before we ran them out of the country. If anything changes, it will no doubt be on the strict side.
Leftists will cheer them until the gays start being thrown off roofs....
As if the Afghan invasion never happened. As if the trillions Bush donors got to “build” and “modernize” Afghanistan never happened. As if the tens of thousands dead died by committing suicide for no purpose.
The Taliban just woke up from a bad dream and are happy to see everything is normal again.
Footloose - Afghanistan Version
There’s a Cat Stevens room in hell, you know.
An easy to understand example of why separation of church and state is a good thing.
It could have been the other way round if their religious doctrine demanded music be played whenever possible....whadda racket..
At one time a woman could be arrested in America for appearing in public wearing pants. It was considered sinful to dress in the clothing of the opposite sex and pants were only worn by males... how silly.
Then the bloomer girls started wearing big billowy trousers in public and that soon became acceptable female attire...and moved from there to how it is today.
My great-grandmother told me when she was a girl it would have caused a scandal if she wore pants.
Muslims have no sense of humor or fun. What a dry (no alcohol either), joyless religion.
Only the beginning. Now that they have received total control from biden, they will be implementing islamic law. If only the media would cover what islamic law really means. They won’t. They would rather destroy White/Christians.
They are going to have to deal with those Tollybon people who videoed themselves singing in the Afghanistan president’s office. They were being very unislamic.
Kite flying banned but according to the author of The Kite Flyer,sodomizing boys was okay.
LOL! Now that’s a funny image.
You have too much fun and imagination to be a Muslim. Thank God. :)
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