a man now known as "Yusuf Islam," and who eschews music, etc.
Posted on 02/16/2011 1:38:07 PM PST by James C. Bennett
Bilal Philips was once a guitar god. Now he is trying to convince Muslims that God doesn’t want them listening to guitars.
A Saudi-trained Canadian, Mr. Philips is among a small group of lecturers who preach against most forms of music — a controversial prohibition that surfaced in Manitoba recently, where a dozen Muslim families want to pull their children from music class.
“A heart filled with music won't have room for God’s words,” he writes in his book Contemporary Issues, which also defends child marriages, wife beating, polygamy and killing apostates while calling homosexuality “evil and dangerous.”
“Wind and stringed instruments have been banned because of their captivating power,” he continues. “Their notes and chords evoke strong emotional attachments. For many, music becomes a source of solace and hope instead of God. When they are down, music brings them up temporarily, like a drug. The Koran, the words of God filled with guidance, should play that role.”
In his book, he also says adult women are forbidden from singing “in order to keep the sensual atmosphere of the society at a minimum. Men are much more easily aroused than females as has been thoroughly documented by the clinical studies of Masters and Johnson.”
“The point is that if music were beneficial, then the musicians would demonstrate that benefit in their lives,” he says in a YouTube video.
“What you see instead is that some of the most corrupt elements of society are found among the musicians. The drugs, the deviations and homosexuality, these type of things and all the corruption that’s there, people committing suicide,” he says. “The reality is that it in fact does carry an evil, dark side which produces that type of corruption amongst themselves and, in the end, ends up corrupting elements of the society.”
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Actually has a point here.
“while calling homosexuality “evil and dangerous.” “
Well, they got one thing right.
I am concerned that as we turn in revulsion against the evil practice of Islam, we end up embracing perversion etc. as something enlightened and wonderful.
Once there was a time I’d rob my mama
For a good meal and a smoke
Once there was a time I’d sell my brother
For a dollar when I was broke
But I’d never sell my guitar
And my strings were always sharp
‘Cause if I don’t have a guitar
I’ll be strumming on some angels harp
- Alvin Lee
When islam enters joy is killed.
Exceptions prove the rule ;-)
Maybe if they took up music....they would not be raping woman.
Islam: Turning humans into feral animals for nearly 1500 years
Post this at Kos, wait ten seconds before heads start exploding.
Not exactlly C.S. Lewis.
Especially after clitoridectomies, eh Bilal?
Savages.
“A heart filled with music won’t have room for God’s words,”
My heart is filled with God and joy in Him and the beauty He has given us invokes song. Often my songs are my prayers. God is truth and beauty, Islam is a destroyer.
When islam enters joy is killed.
As they say in Iran, “The only reason to be
happy is that bad news travels slowly.”
a man now known as "Yusuf Islam," and who eschews music, etc.
Music is a gift from God and like all his gifts, can be corrupted by sin. It is the corruption of the gift that is bad and not the gift itself. I don't let my children listen to certain types of music because I believe it is "corrupted". But that doesn't apply to all music. It takes discernment.
No wonder they're so eager to blow themselves up.
Nice one. Another contribution:
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
- Leonard Cohen
Muezzins sound pretty freaking musical to me.
A look inside of the dark twisted sewers that pass for their “minds”.
Make a joyful noise unto The Lord!
oh, I forgot, he’s mooslim..........no joyful noises allowed...........
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