Actually reminds me of a story I read a couple of days ago...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/9137051/Iraq-religious-militias-target-emo-youths.html

It seems one of the crimes was not only their music taste but also their taste 
in stationary, only one answer from the pious, stone them to death.

Mark 

On Mar 14, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Monica Hall wrote:

> And how do you know that whoever wrote all this  nonsense has an accurate 
> source for all the misinformation that their account of their travels 
> includes?
> 
> It reads like the same old myths that get trotted out in guide books to 
> "exotic"  parts of the world which WASPs visit wearing rose-coloured 
> spectacles.
> 
> Monica
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Harris" <[email protected]>
> To: "Lutelist" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 2:26 PM
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Nazi rules for jazz performers - Ban the Lute!!!
> 
> 
>> In the early 16th century, Lisbon banned the lute as being "dangerously 
>> muslim".
>> 
>> http://lutetheinstrument.blogspot.com/
>> 
>> I am sure this included, by inference: "dangerously jewish", "dangerously 
>> gypsy", "dangerously secular", etc.
>> 
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