Iran's religious nut Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has finally lost all of his mind

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/02/iran-supreme-leader-music-islam


Music fails to chime with Islamic values, says Iran's supreme leaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei claims the promotion and teaching of the artform is not compatible with country's sacred regime

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Khamenei's comments came in response to a request for a ruling by a 21-year-old follower of his, who was thinking of starting music lessons, but wanted to know if they were acceptable according to Islam, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "It's better that our dear youth spend their valuable time in learning science and essential and useful skills and fill their time with sport and healthy recreations instead of music," he said.

Unlike other clerics in Iran, whose religious rulings are practised by their own followers, Khamenei's views are interpreted as administrative orders for the whole country, which must be obeyed by the government. Last month Khamenei issued a controversial fatwa in which he likened his leadership to that of the Prophet Muhammad and obliged all Iranians to obey his orders.

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"They are afraid of my concerts because of those moments before the concert is begun, when the whole hall is in silence and darkness when someone suddenly shouts 'death to dictator' and everybody accompanies and they are unable to identify that person," Shajarian said.
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could someone take pity and take Ali home and chain him to his kitchen table

power to the people

[woo me with science]

1. +1

In some ways I have always imagined the situation in Iran to be even more horrifying, on a personal level, than, say, Afghanistan. Afghanistan has ALWAYS been ruled by brutal tribes. Iran, by contrast, was making progress with education, women's rights, science...and then along came the fundamentalists. Talk about buyer's remorse.

Gettng rid of music. This man is a cancer.

[MajorChode]

2. I'm not sure he every had any to lose

There's really nothing new here. This has been the policy of many fanatical Islamic regimes and especially Iran.

[LeftinOH]

3. We are partly to blame for this; In 1953, Iran could have become a republic -like Turkey

is today: a secular nation with a Muslim majority. Thanks for nothing, BP and the CIA.

[bik0]

4. In Islamic countries, music can be dangerous to your health...

The debate on whether or not music is acceptable in the Islamic faith has raged on for years with some saying that it is forbidden while others say that it is acceptable, within reason. Depending on which part of the globe the aspiring singer is from, singing can be a matter of life or death. In Iran, singers are often jailed for singing or even listening to music. In Pakistan, the Taliban routinely dole out punishments for anyone indulging in music. Some Muslim women, in particular, often bear the brunt of censorship regarding singing. Last year Lima Sahar made it to the final three on the Afghan version of American Idol called Afghan Star. She has received so many death threats since her appearance that she now lives in exile in her own country as she seeks asylum from any country that will welcome her. Another female singer, Aiman Udas, who was a Pakistani native was gunned down this past April by her own brothers who disliked her performing in music concerts.

http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/?p=4135

If a Christian group banned music there would be a major uproar and many damning threads on DU but don't criticize Islam or you're post will be deleted.

[Warpy]

5. They're going to be just like Catholics and birth control

and thumb their noses at the humorless religious nuts and do what they want to do.

I've seen one wonderful documentary about people whose business is to make pots and pans out of steel and aluminum blanks. Their real business is making replacement satellite dishes for the ones the mad mullahs have confiscated. It's all very hush-hush, the new dishes loaded into fake floors in a rattletrap car trunk, but accounting for a full 90% of their business.

I love it when overstuffed jerks overstep any authority their supporters have given them. It just pushes the whole thing closer to an overthrow.