Refleksi : Bukan saja Ayatollah Ali Khamei menyatakan musik tidak kompatibel dengan ajaran agama Islam, tetapi sebelumnya pemimpin Taliban, yaitu Mullah Omar sudah menyatakan demikian, maka oleh karena itu selama kekuasaan Taliban di Afghanistan tidak dibolehkan ada musik .
Apakah MUI juga akan mengeluarkan larangan atau fatwa demikian? http://www.smh.com.au/world/khamenei-comes-out-against-music-20100803-115h4.html Khamenei comes out against music SAEED KAMALI DEHGHAN August 4, 2010 LONDON: Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said that music is ''not compatible'' with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practised or taught in the country. In some of the most extreme comments by a senior regime figure since the 1979 revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei said: ''Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic.'' Ayatollah 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, Ayatollah Khamenei's views are interpreted as administrative orders for the whole country, which must be obeyed by the government. Last month he issued a controversial fatwa in which he likened his leadership to that of the Prophet Muhammad and obliged all Iranians to obey his orders. Ayatollah Khamenei has rarely expressed his views on music publicly, but he is believed to have played a central role in the crackdown on Iran's music scene following the revolution. After Mohammad Khatami, a reformist president, took office in 1997, official attitudes towards music and especially pop began to thaw. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cracked down on music when elected president in 2005. His Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has refused permission for the distribution of thousands of albums. - Iran's establishment appears to have reacted coldly to an entreaty by Brazil's president to allow an Iranian woman convicted of adultery to take asylum in Brazil rather than face execution by stoning at home. Jahan News, an ultraconservative news service in Iran that is regarded as credibly reflecting the government's thinking, said that it was a ''clear interference in Iran's domestic affairs''. Jahan also said that the defendant, Sakineh Ashtiani, 43, might not be stoned to death because Iran's judiciary was reviewing the lower court's sentence. She could be hanged instead. Ashtiani was convicted of an ''illicit relationship'' with two men. She denied the accusations during her trial. Guardian News & Media
