I would like to dedicate this video to all leftists, drum-circle attendees, Saxaphone circles or piano paralelogram supporters of Islam who are in the performing arts or have fantasies about being musicians or are one.
Category Archives: war on the arts
Islamists Take Over Egypt Library of Alexandria to Be Burned Again; Food for Half-Price
Here is the first part of the article from The Hudson Inst.
by Khaled Abu Toameh
November 11, 2011 at 5:00 am
The Royal Library of Alexandria in Egypt, the largest and most significant library of the ancient world, is now being targeted by radical Muslims who seek to replace it with a mosque.
Radical Islamic groups claim that the library’s art programs, which include music and ballet dancing, spread “depravity” in Egyptian society.
The Islamist campaign against the library is taking place under the looking eyes of Egypt’s military dictators, who are burying their heads in the sand and refusing to see the danger, noted columnist Mohammed al-Hamamsi.
“Is the Supreme Military Council waiting until the Islamists come to power and demand, through their parliament, that the library be demolished and that a mosque be built on its site?” al-Hamamsi asked rhetorically.
The destruction of the library will mark the beginning of Egypt’s fall into the hands of the Islamists, who seek to take the Arabs and Muslims back to dark ages.
Fears over the fate of the legendary library surfaced following a dispute between the director and the majority of his workers.
Director Ismail Serageldin has been under fire for his alleged affiliation with the former regime of President Hosni Mubarak and crackdown on freedom of speech in the library.
But he and many Egyptians are convinced that the campaign is part of a scheme by Muslim extremists to take control over one of the world’s most important cultural and scientific institutions.
Egypt: Salafists veil statue of sirens in Alexandria
Ansamed
Arabic translation: Image: Statue (mermaids) in Alexandria, before the veil .. After the veil imposed by the organizers of the party conference Salafi light..
(ANSAmed) – CAIRO, NOVEMBER 2 – The shapes of the mermaids that embellish the fountain of Zeus in the centre of Alexandria have been deemed “inappropriate” by the Salafist Al Nour (Light) party, which decided to “veil” them completely with a sheet during a meeting yesterday evening.
The incident, which was reported by the website of the Al Masri Al Youm newspaper, has unleashed a wave of comment and disbelief on Twitter, where the paper posted pictures “before and after the niqab” of the fountain of the sirens, upon which an enormous placard carries the words: “Egyptian women devote themselves to their husbands and their nation”.
Political leaders of the party, which is at the head of a coalition of Islamist parties that will stand in the forthcoming Egyptian elections from November 28, had recently announced that they were against the statues, deeming them contrary to Islamic tradition, the newspaper reports. “Covering a statue of sirens will certainly lead us to Paradise. I can’t wait,” was the ironic reaction of one Twitter user.
The electoral campaign for the first legislative elections of the post-Mubarak era officially began today and will end two days before the polls open. (ANSAmed).
© Ansamed – all right reserved
Islamists Hate Music, Western Art and Culture
This article was posted in a link, on the comment thread on the issue of the interruption of the concert at Albert Hall last night. The whole article can be read here with a portion of it below.
It came as something as a shock to the liberal British arts establishment when ‘British’ Muslims recently set out their demands for changes in the educational system. They demanded that all schools with Muslim students should become Shariah-compliant, with bans on dance, drama and music. Recitation of the Koran should replace music lessons, and art should be restricted to the portrayal of inanimate objects.
Although they put the lefty luvvies and literati in a flutter, to anyone familiar with the global onslaught of Islam these demands are no surprise, and are in fact inevitable once Muslims have established themselves in sufficient numbers in Dar al Harb (the lands of the infidels).
Malaysia clerics ban ‘poco-poco’ dance for Muslims
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Islamic clerics in a Malaysian state want Muslims to avoid a popular dance they claim has Christian influences.
The “poco-poco” is a line dance that is common at social events in Muslim-majority Malaysia. It is widely thought to have originated in Indonesia.
Islamic scholars in Malaysia’s Perak state say they believe the “poco-poco” is traditionally a Christian dance and that its steps make the sign of the cross.
State cleric Harussani Idris Zakaria said Friday the scholars have issued an edict forbidding the dance. It is not clear if other states will ban it.
Some Muslims insist the ban is unnecessary. Malaysian clerics have also banned yoga for Muslims and barred girls from behaving like tomboys, but the edicts are not legally binding.
Below, the Poco Poco dance
Michael Coren on the Muslim immigrants who want their children out of music classes
Listen to Tarek lie his ass off in this clip.
Jihad Watch: Muslim former guitarist now preaches against music
Noting that Islamic law forbids musical instruments and music itself except in some strictly defined circumstances will bring you swift charges of “ignorance” and “Islamophobia.” I guess Bilal Philips is an ignorant Islamophobe.
Hadith Qudsi 19:5: “The Prophet said that Allah commanded him to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance.” (The Hadith Qudsi, or holy Hadith, are those in which Muhammad transmits the words of Allah, although those words are not in the Qur’an.)
Muhammad also said: (Please click over to Jihad Watch for this excellent collection of Islamic teachings on music)
I especially like the one about the songstress. Mohamed (Pinche Pendejo) hated Music and women. You can imagine how he was about women playing music.
Islam, Music, The BBC and Canada
Sharia in Canada: Muslim parents want kids excused from music, co-ed gym.
From The Ottawa Citizen
Muslims want children excused from music, mixed phys-ed classes
By Nick Martin, Winnipeg Freepress
February 5, 2011
The school division has alerted Education Minister Nancy Allen about the situation because music and phys-ed are compulsory in the province’s elementary schools. Photograph by Max Whittaker/The New York Times XX
WINNIPEG — A dozen Muslim families who recently arrived in Canada have told Winnipeg’s Louis Riel School Division that they want their children excused from compulsory elementary school music and coed physical education programs for religious and cultural reasons.
“This is one of our realities in Manitoba now, as a result of immigration,” said superintendent Terry Borys. “We were faced with some families who were really adamant about this. Music was not part of the cultural reality.”
Borys said the school division has alerted Education Minister Nancy Allan about the situation since music and phys-ed are compulsory in the province’s elementary schools.
There have been no issues so far with children of middle-school or high-school age, he said.
The families accept physical education, as long as the boys and girls have separate classes, but do not want their children exposed to singing or the playing musical instruments, Borys said. The division has suggested they could instead do a writing project to satisfy the music requirements of the arts curriculum.
However, a local Muslim leader says there is no reason for young kids to be held out of music or phys-ed classes based on religious and cultural grounds.
“Who is advising them? My first concern would be who are these new immigrants talking to?” said Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services. “This is the first time I am hearing this; I’m not very happy about it.”
Siddiqui said there is no problem with elementary-school children taking coed phys-ed, at least “not with little kids under the age of puberty.”
She said when some middle-school and high-school students have asked not to mix genders, they have been accommodated by schools.
Siddiqui acknowledged that music can be an issue — but only for a few people.
“Music is controversial in our community; this is a North American phenomenon,” she said. “There is a minority view that music is forbidden. (That view) is not accepted by the majority.”
Borys said that there had been one or two requests for kids to be excused previously, but this year a dozen families came forward at six schools.
Borys said that school division contacted a member of the Islamic community whom the parents suggested, consulted the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and looked at what other jurisdictions are doing about accommodation, particularly Ontario.
The division is trying to figure out what issues might arise when the children enter junior high or high school, he said.
Music is optional beyond Grade 6, but phys-ed is coed right through Grade 12.
© Copyright (c) Winnipeg Free Press
Cory Bernardi: Defending Freedom of Speech
This article was written by the Australian senator, Cory Bernardi on his own website linked here
Sergio Redegalli is an artist who has become an eloquent spokesman for freedom of speech. He has also become a friend – as much as you can be friends with someone you have never met.
Unfortunately, he has been subject to a most appalling campaign of hate and violence, legal threats and personal attacks that now has him living in fear for his life.
His crime? Mr Redegalli is the artist responsible for the “Say no to burqas” mural in Sydney’s Newtown.
To suggest that the six foot high mural has caused controversy would be an understatement but the campaign against Mr Redegalli has highlighted the growing threat of extremism that lurks in Australia.
Artists pushing the boundaries of community acceptance is nothing new. Personally, the quasi pornographic Bill Henson images of naked pre-pubescent teens masquerading as art appalled me.
I am also offended by the ritual humiliation of Christian belief in the name of art but I accept that my taste is not shared by everyone. To me, artistic expression is a small price to pay for living in a free country.
In fact, any suggestion that an artist has gone ‘too far’ in their craft for mainstream sensibilities is usually met with a vigorous defence by those claiming we need to be more tolerant of freedom of expression. Continue Reading →
Muslim man makes daughter wear earmuffs so she can’t hear music in school
Below is a screen shot of a machine translation of this article that I believe is from Norway. I hope that any people who think somehow that Islam is miscible with Western liberal democracy can add this to the enormous database of Muslim attacks on the arts, much of which can be found here on Vlad.
Please click through to read the original article in Norwegian, and try your own translator service with it.
Here is a google translation of the article:
Another Cartoonist in Hiding After Death Threats
From The New York Times:
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: September 16, 2010
A cartoonist in Seattle who promoted an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” last spring is now in hiding after her life was threatened by Islamic extremists.
The cartoonist, Molly Norris, has changed her name and has stopped producing work for a local alternative newspaper, Seattle Weekly, according to the newspaper’s editor, Mark D. Fefer.
Mr. Fefer declined an interview request Thursday, citing “the sensitivity of the situation.” But in a letter to readers about Ms. Norris on Wednesday, he said that “on the insistence of top security specialists at the F.B.I., she is, as they put it, ‘going ghost’: moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity.”
The F.B.I. declined to comment on the case.
Ms. Norris attracted attention after she published a poster on the Internet in April satirically proposing that people draw figures of the Prophet Muhammad on May 20.
She indicated that the proposal was a protest of censorship by Comedy Central, which edited out references to Muhammad from an episode of “South Park” that month. That episode also triggered threats from extremists. Islam forbids depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
In 2005, a Dutch cartoonist named Kurt Westergaard published a depiction of Muhammad that led to multiple death threats and alleged assassination attempts. He was presented an award this month for freedom of speech by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. Continue Reading →
Testimony by muslims who firebombed Lars Vilks home
Here is a screen capture of some of the testimony given by the Lars Vilks attackers. Sadly its a machine translation. Please click over to the site and read the rest in google translate.
Muslim pupils taken out of music lessons ‘because Islam forbids playing an instrument’
Muslim pupils taken out of music lessons ‘because Islam forbids playing an instrument’
Tim Ross, Education Correspondent
01.07.10
Schools are allowing Muslim families to withdraw their children from music lessons because learning an instrument is forbidden according to some Islamic beliefs.
Hundreds of pupils are thought to have been removed from state school music classes despite the subject forming part of the statutory National Curriculum.
Parents have no automatic right to withdraw their children from subjects such as music, although legal exemptions exist for religious and sex education.
However, in one London primary school about 20 pupils were removed from rehearsals for a Christmas musical and one five-year-old girl remains permanently withdrawn from mainstream music classes.
The details, which emerged after a BBC investigation, provoked concerns from Ofsted and education experts. Some Muslims believe that playing musical instruments is forbidden in the same way that alcohol is banned.
At Herbert Morrison Primary in Lambeth, 29 per cent of children come from mainly Somalian Muslim families. Headteacher Eileen Ross said some parents “don’t want children to play musical instruments and they don’t have music in their homes”.
One girl remains permanently withdrawn from the school’s music curriculum, which consists of a government-backed project to learn instruments such as the violin or cello.
“For goodwill I allow that parent to withdraw their child from all music but I am in fact denying the child the opportunity that the other children in the class have,” she told BBC London News. Continue Reading →
The full 11 minute Lars Vilks attack film
I was tempted to post this as a kind of joke. I was going to make the header, ‘National Geographic Special. The wild people of Sweden’ or something like that. I haven’t even been all the way through it yet and I have to post it. The mentality, the paradigm of these people is stunning. A man explains to the police that he demanded the film be stopped and the film was not stopped. He says that as if everyone should understand the attacks that followed.
Here on Vlad, comments have pointed out that it is just and reasonable that Lars was attacked for insulting the prophet. This after a short definition of freedom of speech, as if stapling a bit of reason to the demand to submit to Muslim superstitions made it itself, reasonable.
In any case, watch this whole 11 minute version if you have the time. You can see the degree of separation between the mentality of Western people and Muslims even who are attending a Western university.