Don’t the really ultra-strict Islamists hate music, too, as a form of distraction from devoutness? I heard they killed some kids watching a soccer match, too.
Because its unlistenable. Duh!
I thought Islamists, both Shia and Sunni hated all music except the Islamic call to prayer?
When I was a lad in Istanbul I heard a lot of Turkish and Greek popular music. They were almost identical except the Greed songs eliminated most of the excess wailing of the Turkish music.
I’ve often said if you want peace in the Middle East, send them COOKBOOKS.
After suffering through several Ramadan “feasts” as an invited guest of Muslim neighbors, I suddenly understood the hostility & crazy.
It all boils down to the food, if you could call it that.
(The last dinner was so bad, everyone migrated to my house for Chinese take-out, including my Muslim hosts)
I do not listen to their music because I do not like their music.
Peter Gabriel’s “Passion” is heavily infused with Arabic music. Terrific stuff.
Of the 500+ things that are the cause of islamic insanity; their music would be right up near the top; IMO it would be tied with Rap; there is plenty of observable evidence either will drive listeners to violent insanity.
One can separate Arabic culture and Islam just fine. It is not mandatory to have them joined at the hip, except of course for the Islamic pan-Arabists.
The only way you could get me to like this music would be it you add a half dozen belly dancers.
Blew Saudis minds when they would listen to the radio on the national station ( oddly enough named MBC with a similar looking logo to NBC ) and I would “translate” the song. I would tell them that’s it’s an Arabic country song about how a man’s goat left him, his Nissan pickup broke down, and he’s crying in his tea.
Sounds like that Ravi Shankar they tried to peddle us back in the 60s and I didn’t like that either.
Thanks for the vid. The guy is good.
scrap of printed matter from a newpaper on the ground, they will pick it up
If that were true Iraq would not be a filthy as it is.
I tried to listen to Arabic music when I was in Iraq. The constant talking in the middle of songs was too annoying.
I was vacationing in Thailand once and a group of us were having dinner at a restaurant on the river.
A lot of tour boats went by with music and singing and dancing and looked like great fun
Then a boat went by with this screeching devil music, and on board you could see all the women sitting in the back dressed in black burka’s, and all the men line-dancing and swinging swords through the air...
EVERYONE in the place got real quiet and stared at it- it was like you were looking at a vision of escaped demons from hell..
It was about 10 minutes before the quiet murmuring stopped and the pleasant restaurant chatter resumed.
The instrument looks like a zither.
The music is not to my liking.