And are edging toward stardom as a result. "I see people turning toward Islam, so I have to sing to that." Tiny Minority of Extremists Update from AP, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
YAMOUN, West Bank - They were struggling in a boy band, working the West Bank wedding circuit and dreaming of stardom.Now the five singers who make up the Northern Band have come a little closer to their goal, with help from an unwitting ally — Hezbollah guerrilla chief Hassan Nasrallah.
At the height of the Israel-Hezbollah war, the band wrote new lyrics, in praise of Nasrallah, for an old tune. The "Hawk of Lebanon" song tapped into Nasrallah's huge popularity among Palestinians and became an instant hit.
The song is being played on Arab TV networks, used as a ring tone for cell phones, passed around on e-mail and distributed on pirate CDs and tapes. Music stores have trouble keeping up with demand, in part because Israeli soldiers have confiscated some Nasrallah tapes and CDs at checkpoints.
Basking in its newfound success, the band has doubled its fee per performance to $230. At a recent wedding in the town of Ramallah, the band was asked to play the Nasrallah song six times.
Lead singer and manager Alaa Abu al-Haija, 28, said he gives the audiences what they want to hear. "I see people turning toward Islam, so I have to sing to that," said Alaa, sitting in the living room of his family's two-story house in the northern West Bank village of Yamoun.
The lyrics consist of constant repetition of a few simple rhymes: "Hey, you, hawk of Lebanon. Hey, you, Nasrallah. Your men are from Hezbollah and victory is yours with God's help."
This is so un-Islamic. Don't they know that music ist verboten? I think I'll post a fatwa from Der Unterfuhrer Ibrahim Desai:
http://www.islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=12923
Is it very haram to watch t.v and listen to music.
Answer 12923 2004-10-21
1. According to Shariah, it is not permissible to watch TV due to the many un-Islamic issues in it.
2. It is also prohibited to listen to music. Rasulullah (Salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam) said, There will be a nation from my Ummah who will make music their lot one day while enjoying their music and alcohol they will awake with their faces transformed into swine. In fact, Rasulullah (Salaa Allahu Alayhi wa sallam) said, I was sent to destroy all musical instruments. Instead of music rather listen to the Holy Quran.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
So, why are the members of this new band still alive?
A fatwa from Pelayo - Off with their heads!
I see people turning toward Islam, so I have to sing to that,"
Turning toward islam, from what? Aren't they born facing that direction? So how can they "turn toward" it?
Perhaps everybody in Lebanon is born Jewish, but seeing the error of that faith, the Jews slowly turn towards islam as they see the light. Surely that must be what he meant? /sarcasm
The lyrics consist of constant repetition of a few simple rhymes
That's hip hop for you. I can assure you that there were more lyrics than that. I think the media deleted the best parts:
Hey, you, hawk of Lebanon. Hey, you, Nasrallah.
Your men are from Hezbollah and
victory is yours with God's help.
Kill the Jews and Crusaders. It is the will of Allah.
Kill the Jews and Crusaders. It is the will of Allah.
Next Single-Sweet Noorul
To: You Are My Sunshine
My favorite livestock, her name is Noorul,
I like to hold her in my arms,
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you,
Please don’t take my Velcro away.
And of course music is condemned by the Kuran, which means these teenage would-be idols are hence reduced to nothing more than infidels waiting to be popped out of their shabby existence at their next 'concert' (talent in the Islamosphere is developed for the exclusive use of committing first-degree murder against non-believers and nothing else).
Should any of these band members attain the status of 'star', they will lend substance to the (cynical) observation that "star" is "rats" spelled backwards. Indeed, these band members ARE definitely 'rats'.
Nowhere would a star qualify as a rat so easily as in the Islamosphere, which is one vast rat bin...
Again with the dhimmitude. It translates "... and victory is yours with allah's help." NOT "God's help". The PC media is translating "allah" as "God", not even realizing thet by doing so they are appeasing the muslims and submitting a little bit to them. Wonder how many of the "Boy Band" members will come out of the closet a few years from now, and if the media will report that? Seems like there are a lot more gay muslims than the umma is willing to admit.
I have wondered where the singing groups that accompany the jihad videos get together and practice and get their marketing. Is this the same group?
Ahhh, how dreemy; now they just need a young goat band and many a fantasy of allah's true believers can be fulfilled in warm and snuggly parties under the desert stars.
Sing sweetly, young boys, sing sweetly....
A Muslim "boy band" eh? They could call themselves The Hidden Pearls. (cf. Koran 52.24).
Kinda makes you long for the days of N'Sync, don't it?
As many posters above have noted, many strains of Islam ban music outright.
A recent "Ask the Imam" question was whether it was permissible to listen to music if if they Islamic-themed tunes designed to whip up your faith. The answer was a resounding "NO!".
So I guess as their audience "turns toward Islam" the band will first become enormously popular, then be denounced, then finally be publicly executed in the local soccer stadium.
Good thing there's no death penalty for poor proofreading--and I'm usually so careful!
At a recent wedding in the town of Ramallah, the band was asked to play the Nasrallah song six times.
The lyrics consist of constant repetition of a few simple rhymes.
Sigh… It “Almost” makes you feel sorry for them. “Almost”.
Kind of cute,eh.Hezbollah Boy Band.Oh dear,what will happen when Yvonne Ridley gets to hear of it-she loudly condemned Sisters jumping up and down ,their heebie jeebies falling off,when listening to musical Bros?? As for Mufti
Ebrahim Desai,who can tell what punishment he will order for 'em - maybe a little operation to sing higher...Am looking forward to reading the Fatwas. Meanwhile have thought up a verse or two
for them.
Hawk of Lebanon
You don't eat no Pork
Oh, mighty Hawk
Nasrallah Nasrallah
You are our Fellah
You kill them Jews
Crusaders too
Apostates by the score
Collaborators,sure
Blown into bits
For video clips
You fooled the U.N
Al Reuters and CNN
Oh,cunning Hawk
With taqqiya talk
Nasrallah,Nasrallah
You are our Fellah
Jew Swine tried to get you
Dropped lots of bombs on you
Even if you're blind in one eye
Looking at the sky
When Infidel crap fell on you
There was only a lttle squawk
From Allah's Hawk
"Ouch,poo in my eye
Is no way to die."
and we all say *hit on you. Good night.
I'm not too upset. Boy bands usually only have a shelf life of 2-5 years anyway.
Eight hours ago my last post seemed like a nice lyric for the preceding song. Now it sounds mean-spirited. It was not meant as such.