You've been Hannitized Islami-sized..
Mogadishu-based radio stations stopped playing all music following an ultimatum
by hardline Islamist militia, in a sign of the insurgents' tightening grip on the Somali capital.
(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)
Posted on 04/13/2010 9:01:35 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somali radio stations stopped playing music on Tuesday after hardline militants called it un-Islamic and ordered stations to take songs off the air.
The edict is the latest unpopular order from Islamists, who also have banned bras, musical ringtones and movies. The order to stop the music echoes the Taliban's strict social rules imposed on Afghans beginning in the late 1990s.
Somalia has a tradition of music and most residents greeted the ban with dismay. Rock, rap and love songs from the U.S., Europe and Africa could be heard on Somali stations before the ban.
"Now I think we are going to be forced to hear only the horrific sounds of the gunfire and the explosions," said Khadiya Omar, a 22-year-old Mogadishu resident who called music a "tranquilizer" to help him forget life's troubles.
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Serves the skinnys right. What a craphole of a country.
Al-Shabaab = Taliban
Happy, happy country, that Somalia...SOO glad I serve a God of joy!
Colonel, USAFR
Well, every once in a while the neaderthals get it it right.
Classical music, anyone? Sonatas? Symphonies? Let them hear what music truly is.
You've been Hannitized Islami-sized..
Mogadishu-based radio stations stopped playing all music following an ultimatum
by hardline Islamist militia, in a sign of the insurgents' tightening grip on the Somali capital.
(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)
That’s the funnest vid I’ve seen this week!
So theyre experiencing Hopey-Changey too???? Awwwwww.....
To control the people , you must control their culture.
We see it and hear it here. For now.
But what happens when the music stops here too.
“The edict is the latest unpopular order from Islamists, who also have banned bras,”
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The audacity of Radical Islam..
So what does the new schedule for Radio Somalia look like?
Ed Schultz? Randi Rhodes? The Ayman al-Zawahiri News and Commentary? Daily Detonator Price Report? Rome-is-Burining-and-Tel Aviv-is-Next?
Bras AND ringtones...
And while I’m not up for censoring Hollywood, I wouldn’t be sad to see the studios close for lack of bidness.
LOL.. I occasionally run into 960am out here and Randi is doing her thing. I haven’t listened to Ed in awhile. no loss.
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