> HaHahahahahahahahahaha....
ROFLMAO!!!!
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> If you
> don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do
> read the newspaper you are misinformed.--Mark
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> On 9/8/2010 4:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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> Jihad Watch
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> Iranian supremo:
> "Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is
> not compatible with the highest values of the sacred
> regime of the Islamic Republic"
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> Whenever I have pointed out that Islam generally views
> music negatively and that some schools of Islamic law
> even ban it outright, I get called an "Islamophobe" --
> so I guess Khameni is an "Islamophobe" as well.
> There Is No Fun In Islam* Update from the Islamic
> Republic: "Music fails to chime with Islamic values,
> says Iran's supreme leader," by Saeed Kamali Dehghan in
> The Guardian,
> August 2 (thanks to all who sent this in):
> Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
> said today 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, 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."
> 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.
> Khamenei has rarely expressed his views on music
> publicly, but he is believed have played a key role in
> the crackdown on Iran's music scene following the
> revolution. When Khamenei was president, he banned
> western-style music, forcing many stars to go into
> exile.
> Houshang Asadi, a former cellmate of Khamenei before
> the Islamic Revolution said: "He hated the music from
> the beginning."
> "There were times I sang a song by Banan (a popular
> vocalist) for him and he told me to avoid music and
> instead pray to God", said Asadi, who shared a cell
> with Khamenei for four months in Moshtarak prison in
> Tehran in 1976 and stayed friend with him for several
> years after the revolution. "The only music he liked
> was revolutionary and religious anthems," said Asadi.
> After the reformist President Khatami took office in
> 1997, official attitudes towards music and especially
> pop began to thaw.
> After his election in 2005, President Mahmoud
> Ahmadinejad cracked down on music. His ministry of
> culture and Islamic guidance has refused permission
> for the distribution of thousands of albums. Since
> last year's disputed elections the authorities have
> given even fewer permits for public concerts, fearing
> they could be used by the opposition....
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> * The Ayatollah Khomeini said that.
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> Posted by Robert on August
> 3, 2010
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