My latest in PJ Media:
Fawad Andarabi was an Afghan folk singer who played the ghichak, a lute played with a bow, and sang about his native land. One of his songs contained the lyric: “There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation. Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents’ homeland.” The Taliban, showing their commitment to inclusivity that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the rest of Biden’s handlers so dearly wish them to demonstrate, murdered Andarabi on Friday, likely for the crime of playing music for pleasure, which is forbidden in Islamic law. As CNN’s Peter Bergen recently noted, millions of Afghans “have good reason today to be skeptical of the ‘kinder, gentler’ Taliban” that some of the perennially eager-to-be-fooled have insisted exists. Indeed, they do. But will Blinken and company get the message?
Fawad Andarabi’s son Jawad recounted: “He was innocent, a singer who was only entertaining people. They shot him in the head on the farm.” The Taliban’s ubiquitous spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said he didn’t have any information about what happened. Most likely, Andarabi was murdered for doing what he loved, for aside from nasheeds, a capella exhortations to jihad, Islamic law forbids music.
This prohibition is not a manifestation of “extremism”; though widely ignored, it is based on the highest authority. While it is not in the Qur’an, it is in the Hadith Qudsi, that is, reports of Muhammad’s words and deeds in which the prophet of Islam is quoted saying that Allah said something. In one of these, “the Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance” (Hadith Qudsi 19:5). In a similar tradition, Muhammad is also depicted as saying: “Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”
Other traditions have Muhammad saying: “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.” And: “Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.” If that isn’t enough to get you to throw out your old Led Zeppelin LPs, yet another tradition attributes these words to Muhammad: “This community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.” Someone asked, “When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?” and he said, “When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.”
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gravenimage says
Kinder, Gentler Taliban Murder Afghan Folk Singer, Because Music Is Un-Islamic
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More proof that the Taliban has not changed at all–and why would they? Islam has not changed.
mortimer says
Bravo. Very concise.
Indeed, the Taliban is still at war against kafirs.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mortimer. I’m sure this folk singer was Muslim–but as a singer he was considered a bad Muslim and virtual Infidel.
TruthWFree says
Islam’s devout minions kill for their allah god. We sure as hell don’t want that false religion here and it should not even be allowed to exist in the world. The allah god is Satan, no doubt in my mind. If Muhammad made it up, he supposedly was in close contact with the being in the cave in 610 AD, and this is in line with exhortations to kill in the Quran, supposedly the alllah god’s word to Muhammad. What an EVIL religion.
Norman Gardner says
They kill for Mohammed, the self anointed prophet who was a legend in his own mind and was probably a delirious mentally challenged individual who spread his self appointed religion by the sword .
Grace says
Unfortunately, the single minded never changing beliefs of these savages is one of their constant weapons. While the west changes attitudes with every election and constantly change our progress from the Crusades to now; Muslim ambition has always been the same. World control, Islam forever. Death to the unbeliever. When you have a goal that has been constant for more than seven hundred years it’s strength can be a great motivator.
mortimer says
How can Sinéad O’Connor or Cat Stevens have the guts to call themselves Muslimsm when MUSICIANS ARE SLAUGHTERED LIKE ANIMALS BY THE THEOLOGY OF ISLAM ???
The hatred of music comes directly from MOHAMMED.
Shakespeare says that MUSIC IS THE FOOD OF LOVE. Music makes us LOVE PEOPLE.
But Islam hates MUSIC and hates kafirs, merely because they think Mohammed is a false prophet.
Over 80% of all humans believe Mohammed is a FALSE prophet. Islam hates them and wants to kill them ‘for the sake of Allah’.
CogitoErgoSum says
If the Taliban killed this musician for singing patriotic songs about Afghanistan it would appear that in addition to hating music, they do not really have any desire to make Afghanistan into a nation state that will live in harmony with the other nation states of the Earth. They refer to the land they control as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The dictionary I consulted defines an “emir” as a ruler, chief or commander in an Islamic country. So even the dictionary still calls an Emirate a country – but it seems to me that it is really more of a subdivision of the larger Caliphate which they hope will encompass the whole world and will be ruled by a supreme leader called the Caliph – a successor of Muhammad. The emirs will be subservient to the Caliph. So the leaders of the Taliban are lying when they say they won’t allow terrorists to operate out of Afghanistan. They don’t want to be a part of the world as it is now. Their goal is to bring about the world Caliphate and that will require bringing submission to all parts of the world – not just to Afghanistan – in any way they can. To just sit back now and do nothing more would put them among the hypocrites despised by Allah in the Koran.
gravenimage says
CogitoErgoSum, I hesitate to mention this, but I know you said that the Taliban was going to peacefully escort Americans trapped in Afghanistan to the airport the day after the deadline, just to show Biden up. I was skeptical, but you said I would see the day after the deadline.
But I have to admit I have not seen any indication that the Taliban is now helping Americans–do you have any more information on this?
CogitoErgoSum says
No, not yet. But maybe it takes time to reopen the airport and get things running again. I will give them a few more days but I’m willing to concede that I was probably wrong about them being any smarter than Joe Biden. I now think they just don’t give a damn about how the rest of the world will perceive them. The opinion of Allah is what drives their decision making. I was looking for some glimmer of hope in a pit of darkness but it just keeps getting darker.
gravenimage says
I very much hope were right the first time, CogitoErgoSum.
gravenimage says
Sadly, this is the reality:
“Taliban holding US citizens on six planes, demanding payment to allow planes to leave Afghanistan”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/09/taliban-holding-us-citizens-on-six-planes-demanding-payment-to-allow-planes-to-leave-afghanistan
notnolib says
Any word from the terrorists at the terror organization CAIR? I think they’re busy preparing for “muslim day” next Saturday. Preparing sweets to pass out to the little terrorists.
Alfredo says
Anyone hoping the Taliban will behave any other way than as in the past will be disappointed. Especially now that it inherited 85 billions’ worth of military hardware courtesy of foggy Joe and his woke generals, such as gral. Milley, who seems to be far more interested in “studying” CRT than extricating American military personnel and civilians stranded in a country where people regularly chant “Death to America!”
Shalom says
That poor, poor man. What utter barbarians.
The Taliban’s ubiquitous spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said he didn’t have any information about what happened. —— this will be their response to any atrocity that gets revealed.
gravenimage says
Zabihullah Mujahid’s very name means suicide terrorist.
Shalom says
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gravenimage says
I received this message from a site featuring inspiring quotes today:
“Hello all,
I find it extraordinary that enjoying music is something nearly every single person on the planet has in common…”
This person is sweet but clueless, and clearly has *no* understanding of the vicious Islamic hatred of all music.
Walter Sieruk says
Murder is what the Taliban are very effective at doing. So the Taliban don’t like music of any kind because they understand it to be un- Islamic Therefore, if the Taliban would have had any real “goodness in them” ,at all, They would have then ordered him never to sing again . Instead they murdered him. This is because, has it has been said that “Evil is always looking for and excure.”