Musicians attacked at wedding

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

Musicians attacked at wedding

Mon Jun 15, 2009

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said Monday, a sign of the fighters' growing influence.
While in power from 1996-2001, the Taliban banned music as un-Islamic.
The militants have returned to areas in the east and south of the country, where violence has sharply spiked in recent years. They attack government officials, Afghan police, foreign troops and schools that teach girls, another practice they forbid.
"A party was going on when a group of Taliban grabbed five musicians and started beating them and smashing their musical instruments," said Rahmatullah Khan, a head of Merke Khel village in the east of the country.
"The musicians were tied up with rope to trees last night and villagers found them in the morning when going out for prayers," Khan said.
Khan said Taliban fighters shaved the heads of the musicians and made them take oaths in the presence of villagers that they would not sing or play music at weddings again.
Afghan weddings and engagement parties in rural areas are traditionally celebrated with hundreds of guests, music and singing that often continues until late at night.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

Who does the Taliban think they are? The plcb or LCE?

rickster · Post by **rickster** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

Hopefully it was former members of the culture club

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Just Kidding..I have nothing against b.g or his friends/lovers...

Baceman Spiff · Post by **Baceman Spiff** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

Everybody's a critic...geez

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

I would have stabbed them with a drumstick, since the knife i bought is stab proof.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

DirtySanchez wrote:Who does the Taliban think they are? The plcb or LCE?

lol

JackANSI · Post by **JackANSI** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

DirtySanchez wrote:Who does the Taliban think they are? The plcb or LCE?

Tough choice...

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

DirtySanchez wrote:Who does the Taliban think they are? The plcb or LCE?

Simon maybe ?

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

Maybe they played "Crazy Bitch" to early....

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

Hurricane wrote:I would have stabbed them with a drumstick, since the knife i bought is stab proof.

haha

joltinjeff · Post by **joltinjeff** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

Where is Adam Sandler when you need him? A good wedding singer can make good money! Then he could have said after too much wine - Here's to Achmed and Asa - Whoopy-dooooooooo!
If the Taliban is saying that music is anti-Islamic then maybe they ought to hold OZZFEST or have every freakin band in the world get together for the US troops and crank the shit really loud to echo into Russia. Scare those freakin towel-headed bastards to hell, end the war and then have one giant kegger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

thebattle · Post by **thebattle** » Friday Jun 19, 2009

joltinjeff wrote:Where is Adam Sandler when you need him? A good wedding singer can make good money! Then he could have said after too much wine - Here's to Achmed and Asa - Whoopy-dooooooooo!
If the Taliban is saying that music is anti-Islamic then maybe they ought to hold OZZFEST or have every freakin band in the world get together for the US troops and crank the shit really loud to echo into Russia. Scare those freakin towel-headed bastards to hell, end the war and then have one giant kegger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

that sounds like a hell of an idea

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Saturday Jun 20, 2009

Yea, music is bad....however, blowing yourself up in public to kill Jews....Great Idea!!!!

Naga · Post by **Naga** » Saturday Jun 20, 2009

Gotta love extremists... I agree with JoltnJeff though. Let's get a bunch of musicians and go on a major, overseas "road trip" and throw a HUUUGE shindig for the troops, and let them be their own security. If anyone not a US soldier comes within 600 yards of the venue (which would probably have to be out in the middle of the desert), let the security (armed with .50cal sniper rifles) take care of em!

Seriously... Music "un-Islamic"? Then how were several types of instruments able to have arisen from the Islamic world??? Music is rooted in HUMAN NATURE!!!

slackin@dabass · Post by **slackin@dabass** » Saturday Jun 20, 2009

Naga wrote:Gotta love extremists... I agree with JoltnJeff though. Let's get a bunch of musicians and go on a major, overseas "road trip" and throw a HUUUGE shindig for the troops, and let them be their own security. If anyone not a US soldier comes within 600 yards of the venue (which would probably have to be out in the middle of the desert), let the security (armed with .50cal sniper rifles) take care of em!

Seriously... Music "un-Islamic"? Then how were several types of instruments able to have arisen from the Islamic world??? Music is rooted in HUMAN NATURE!!!

they are extremists. like they listen to logic...

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Saturday Jun 20, 2009

Now that we know how much they hate it, looks like we just discovered the replacement for waterboarding to get information from terrorists - MUSIC

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