The Jerusalem Post shares one of IS’s recent activities.
According to Kurdish media reports, the jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq beheaded a 15-year-old boy in Mosul for the crime of listening to Western pop music.
Reports cite officials in the northern Iraqi city as saying that the boy, Ayham Hussein, was discovered by ISIS henchman as he was listening to a portable compact disc player.
Hussein was detained by ISIS operatives as he sat inside a shop owned by his father in an open-air market in western Mosul. The boy was beaten and tried in a local sharia court, which sentenced him to be executed.
For listening to pop music.
They chopped his head off in a square in the city center.
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11 responses to “Music is haram”
I’m not sure if this was discussed here (it was about 4 years ago), but I do recall the case of a kindergarten student in Quebec who was given permission to wear a noise-reducing headset in class, “because her parents’ say their religious beliefs don’t allow the five-year-old girl to listen to music” (http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/muslim-kindergartener-permitted-to-block-out-music-1.742248)
A brief google (by way of procrastinating some annoying paperwork) yields this: https://islamqa.info/en/5000
So, what’s more important? The life of a boy, or the jihadists taking an opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to upholding the principles of Islam
Yes they are supporting the whims of people – which isn’t necessarily bad. People have the right to make these decisions for themselves. It is much better to support the whims of people who just want to listen to music than the whims of angry men who thinks the whole world has to be miserable at the whim of their deity.
Any god that hates music is no God to worship, because he also hates joy and happiness and probably sex, too. In short, inhuman. Music is an essential right in my book.
You’re not permitted to listen to music.
Or dance.
Or… go camping?
Or wear blue?
Run? Think about Paris? Try a new food? Learn Spanish? Write an email to your friend? Walk home by a different route? See a movie? Visit a museum? Go to the gym? Get on an airplane?
What are the limits of what they will attempt to decide for other people? How do any of these limits—found in “sacred” writings or not—make any sense? Why the hell do they—why in hell should anyone!—have the power to prevent anyone from just… being a human being?
Don’t forget that it’s also haram to build snowpersons (or even snow animals) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11339641/Saudi-Arabia-fatwa-over-building-of-snowmen.html
So there’s no criticism of murder allowed here? Or was there another reason my post condemning the killers and the compliant crowd was removed?
Too much swearing. You’re new. A lot of trolls try to comment here. If you want to be able to comment, it helps not to resemble a troll. Your nym isn’t ideal, for instance.
Sorry, the ‘nym is just a parody on certain thought police. Would you rather I change it?
Milder version of deleted post:
I am past caring about accusations of’othering’, these murderers are not merely inhumane, they are inhuman.
As for the crowd all sat around as though they’re watching performance art; there’s always enough of them to be able to stop these murders of innocents -if they really cared enough. The fact that they don’t so much as lift a finger, let alone mob the killers whom they vastly outnumber makes them implicit in the murders.
All that’s missing in the photo is an ice cream seller.
No, not now that you’ve clarified.
I know this is nothing new in the world. But it’s so hard to wrap your head around.
If you insist on eating sandwiches only when they’re cut straight across and not diagonally, or ending every sentence with “beep,” or wearing one earring, and you think this is what your god wants, go for it. Seems weird to me, but what do I care?
But how does anyone think they can insist on anyone else doing these things? Or never listening to music or never dancing or never building snowmen? It’s just… I’d say absurd but the consequences can be horrible.
All that’s missing in the photo is an ice cream seller.
Actually, refreshments have been served at some of these events.
And to add to the list of things forbidden, things ‘satanic’….and this may be of interest to Ophelia… are all-black dogs like Cooper.
God doesn’t enter into dwellings in which there are black dogs.
So I think I’m gonna get myself one!
@S.J.Obsessive. It is fucking appalling that people just stand around and do nothing and say nothing. They are devoid of all humanity
Some of the nicest animals I’ve known have been all black. I can’t help but suspect they know of the superstition, and are trying harder. As if to say: ‘would a satanic cat be this friendly? I think not’. I think I’d probably preferentially adopt one for this possibly not entirely rational reason. That, and, y’know, just kinda suspecting they may especially need a break.