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September 12, 2006

Somali radio station returns to air minus music

More talk, less rock -- in fact, none -- on Radio Jowhar. An update on this story from AP:

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A Somali radio station closed by Islamists for playing local love songs deemed to encourage immorality returned to the airwaves Monday after pledging to stop broadcasting music.
"We've been on air since midday," Said Haga Afrah, director of Radio Jowhar, told Reuters. "We are powerless so we have to heed their call to stop playing music on air."
Islamist leaders who control Jowhar, an agricultural town 56 miles (90 kilometers) north of Mogadishu, ordered the station closed Saturday in the latest show of hardline religious tendencies in the movement that has taken over a swathe of southern Somalia.
Local Islamist leader, Sheikh Mohamed Mahamud Abdirahman, went alone to the station to convey the message Saturday.
"He said the music encourages immorality; we had no option but to close down," Afrah said, adding that the station would have to adjust its programs to fill the time.

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More talk, less rock -- in fact, none -- on Radio Jowhar
The closest the Somalis will get to rock is stonings. Not something that can be shown on radio, and since they got rid of TV's, not something that can be broadcast.

Maybe if all they broadcasted was the Quran and the Azaan, not only would they be back, they'd be back in favor. On the other hand, there was no radio in Mohammed's time. Oh, well...

Posted by: Infidel Pride [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 4:03 AM

I got a song for them!

Sing this to the tune of "Is this the way to Amarillo".


Alla la lala Alalala
Alla la lala Alalala
Alla la lala Alalala

When the the smoke is clearing.
On a Baghdad Friday morning.
How I long to be there.
With Osama whose waiting for me there.

Every bombed out city.
(Alla la lala Alalala)
Where I stop Jihad.
(Alla la lala Alalala)
Ain't as half as gritty.
As where Bin Laden's at.

Is this the way to Al Qaeda.
Let me find that terrorist leader.
Dreaming dreams of Al Qaeda.
And Osama who waits from me

Show me the way to Al Qaeda.
Got to find that long thin bleeder.
Crying over Al Qaeda.
And Osama who who waits from me.

Alla la lala Alalala
Alla la lala Alalala
Alla la lala Alalala
and Osama who waits for me

There's a woman bawling
Only when the cameras are rolling.
See the paintshopped city, that is just really tough titty.

Just five years ago, there were some hijacked planes.
And it keeps us going, through the wind and rain.

Is this the way to Al Qaeda.
Let me find that terrorist leader.
Dreaming dreams of Al Qaeda.
And Osama who hides from me

Show me the way to Al Qaeda.
Got to find that long thin bleeder.
Crying over Al Qaeda.
And Osama who who runs from me.

Alla la lala lalala
Alla la lala lalala
Alla la lala lalala
and Osama who runs for me

Posted by: IceDragon [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 7:05 AM

The last line should be "runs FROM me"!

Posted by: IceDragon [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 7:06 AM

That type of music-less radio station is good for the Somalis who have constipation. Now in the morning they just have to turn on their radio while at the outhouse and their problems are over.

Posted by: rocky [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 7:40 AM

I wonder what their advert rates might be.

Posted by: Hulegu Khan [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 8:13 AM

CREEPING TALIBINIZATION IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES.
Notice that there are no protests no demonstrations in somalia or any other muslim countries about these new rules and laws on morality. No talk at all of these taliban misunderstanding the koran and islam. there is only silent approvel of these measures. This should tell each and every nonmuslims in the world that islam is taliban and taliban is the future of islam when these people are allowed to take over.

Posted by: desidude [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 8:47 AM

And now....the rest of the fatwah.


JLP

Posted by: John Lee Pedimore [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 11:17 AM

Another "contribution" to the Arts...

Posted by: Mike [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 12:39 PM

"We've been on air since midday," Said Haga Afrah, director of Radio Jowhar, told Reuters. "We are powerless so we have to heed their call to stop playing music on air."

Yeah, we're on the air and all you can hear is static and flapping sounds made by our white flag of surrender. And by the way, our advertising rates are now aat rock bottom.

Posted by: CelticCoyote [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 12:40 PM

Permissable music.

Posted by: Shy Guy [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 1:05 PM

L'chaim. To life!

I never thought that would be my war cry, but it is.

Posted by: poetcomic1 [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 2:49 PM

A little off topic but this item grabbed my attention,looks like another nail in the UKs coffin.www.timesonline.co.uk the article is as follows(schools told its no longer necessary to teach right from wrong)-Education Times on line.
The article includes the new brainwashing plan from the snakes in power,i smell islam!!,sorry i have not worked out how to add a link yet on this site.

Posted by: Laststand [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 3:18 PM

Somalia needs to have its rock music broadcast from satellite.

Not even the most determined Mohammedan rock-thrower is going to knock out a radio station that's in orbit!

Posted by: Aardvark [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 4:32 PM

OT: Last night (Sept. 11) during the pregame of the first game of a critical 3-game series between the hot Oakland A's and the scorching Minnesota Twins in the Metrodome, a sportscaster interviewed Hennepin County Sheriff Pat McGowan about his great national success as a law enforcement leader.

He helped talk the FBI into creating the Joint Terrorism Taskforce in the 90s, to function as local/state/fed best practices and data sharing consortium. National Sheriff of the Year. Current Chair of the American Sheriff Assocation's terrorism working group.

Why did Sheriff McGowan (whom I've met several times) do all this work? And who were all these terrorists who caught his attention?

* 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 ** 33:21 *

After the Black Hawk Down executions, an army of checkbook wielding Marxist Lutheran activists descended upon the Minnesota Capitol looking for breaks, and then State Dept looking for help, and the INS looking for preferences. The checkbook wielding Lutherans got it all and... voila! 40,000 grousing gubmint check-cashing American-hating Somalis showed up in town.

They've been surly ever since. But they all have cell phones on which they're always chatting on the I-494 loop. About what, I wonder.

McGowan (who of course was careful not to define terrorism or name the Somalis on his 9/11 TV interview) stated to the clueless sportscaster that the last 15 yrs he has spent 60% of his time working on "terrorism" instead of other policing duties.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 7:27 PM

Radio Jowhar News Talk 102.4 - Somalia has 100,000 phones and 500,000 cell phones in use.
24 hour fatwa service. No news all day.

Posted by: Pelayo [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 9:00 PM

Ahhhh, the great Somali Republic of Minnesota, with all its undercover-terrorist taxicabs and strangely aromatic drivers.

Im waiting breathlessly for the day that a new Somali Community Center opens up in Elk River, then I will know that the apocalypse is soon to come.

If you look close at saturdays Minneapolis Star and Sickle newspaper, you will get treated to breathless headlines about a new and giant mosque being built right here in Minnesota. Anyone care to guess when the paper awarded such a large-font header to the momentous building of a new church anywhere in the state? Multicult reaches new levels in the land of dhimmist lutherans and clueless liberals.

Somali culture...heh heh...has been co-opted like all the others who surrendered meekly to the muslims, unfortunately they have decided to import their animalistic manners and ways to my fair country and state.

It wont be long before only Alabama and Australia are safe for the likes of me.

Posted by: Dead Infidel Walking [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 9:00 PM

This is what islam wishes to do to all radio stations in the world. And all the TV stations. And all the movie theatres. And all the art galleries. And all the sports stadiums. And every place there is art or culture or entertainment. Indeed, everwhere there is a photo or a painting, or a film, or an audio recording, all must be closed. And all those testaments, either on celluloid, vinyl, canvas, or glossy paper, to the fact that a culture once existed, must be destroyed. That is the call of islam.

If the da'wa is successful in the west, it can never be revealed to future generations of muslims that such a culture ever existed.

This war we are in, is not a war for security. That is where the leaders are misleading us. This is not about terrorism. The stakes are not whether we suffer an attack or are spared. That is not the end game of islam. This is not about stopping terror and saving lives. This is about the survival of our civilization. Lives can be replaced. Once a civilization is destroyed, it is gone forever. The muslims have destroyed civilizations before. We are next on that hit list.

So I say to the leaders of the world, stop referencing terror. Terror is a distraction from the end game. Start talking about da'wa. That is the threat. Terrorists can not destroy our civilization. They can blow up a plane, or knock down a building, or pollute a town with radiation. To paraphrase Napoleon, How many divisions does bin laden have? None. But it is the muslim population in the west that can destroy our civilization, and that aims to do so, as CAIR itself has admitted is its goal - to see Sharia implemented as the law of America and throughout the west. That is the end game. Buildings, planes, towns, even populations are rebuildable.

Sixty percent of the muslims polled in Britain want to see islamic law control British life. If that were to happen, all that is Britain, all that ever was Britain, all that she ever fought for, would cease to exist overnight. And all records would be erased, all vestiges removed. It could never return. What took 2000 years to build, could be dismantled in a blink of an eye, and without a shot being fired.

That is not the work of terrorism. That is da'wa.

If they continue to exist in this country, as free people, and if they continue to have children at a rate greater than the indigenous population, then it is a mathematical, not just a political, certainty that within 50 years they will make the west islamic, and bury our culture and our civilization in the sands of time.

The rock stations in America, as in Somalia, will play no more. Not only will our civilization be destroyed, but there will be no record kept that it ever existed. All records destroyed. For future generations born in West, for your children's grandchildren, they will never know the name Elvis, never know the name Einstein, never know the name Galileo, never know the name Da Vinci, and they will never know the name Shakespeare. Truly, the unkindest cut of all.

Posted by: August22 [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 10:51 PM

Thanks for the heads up Laststand. You are on the point: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-2292741_2,00.html

The new system in the UK will dilute the identity of UK natives, and undermine UK's significant history; thus, lessening the feeling of self-worth among its native inhabitants, bringing their self-worth in line with those of Muslims. Furthermore, the exclusion of the mandate to teach “right and wrong”, will send their values into disarray, just like those of the Muslims, making their values vulnerable to hijacking. It's an attack on current beliefs of right and wrong; with the exception of the self-destructive tolerance, those common beliefs have been the glue to society. The infiltrators have got their hellish hands all over those amendments. No doubt, the Muslims are readying the UK to receive a France like invasion.

Pledging allegiance to a “greater good” (a reference to Allah, no doubt,) rather than the “common good,” is a reckless change that is not consistent with the civilized world, and again is vulnerable to hijacking.

You see Muslims don't like culture. They don't like the concept of cumulative progress. They don't like you to have an identity other than that of an Arab glorifying devil worshipper. Look bellow at what I mean. The Phoenician people have been at the root of human development since the beginning of the world, and some Western educated, practically Christian Muslim, denigrates and rejects his origins over the identity of a primitive desert people:

http://cedarland.proboards40.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1111136025

Let’s see. Can Muslims get any worse? They kill, conspire to kill, they reject useful accomplishment, and they deny recognition/dignity/progress. Islam is truly from the devil.

Posted by: ofcourse [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 12, 2006 11:15 PM

Perhaps they were having a John Cage Orgy for Reading Period.

Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 13, 2006 8:21 AM

Or the Sharia-approved club remix of "4:33."

Posted by: MarisolJW [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 13, 2006 8:56 AM

Everday proves more and more that you can't reason with Muslim hardliners.
When the sunami hit Indonesia, the United States was firt to respond with help, followed by numerous Christian organizations with food, medicine, and doctors.
September 1st, Muslims burned a church to the ground in Ache province. It seems the pastor sent out fliers inviting Christians to a meeting involving preaching. One of Mo's boys got hold of a copy, and with his magic marker, made it look as if Muslims were being invited to hear the Gospel.
We all know what a heinous crime that is, punishable by torching the church and killing the preacher if he hadn't escaped.
If our legislators would stop squabling like a bunch of hyenas at an animal carcass, maybe someone would discover what the real threat to our nation is.
Islamic facism and party politics are running neck and neck. The sad thing is as long our legislators have their feet in the hog trough and a shot at the pork barrel,they really don't give a damn.

Posted by: cactus [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 13, 2006 12:36 PM

Minneapolis Star and Sickle newspaper

The boys down at City Hall call it the Red Star.

Whatever you call it, Dead, it must not go unnoticed that the Red Star --- like Karl Marx, the progenitor of the ideology it follows so fervidly --- just got caught fudging its numbers.

But the leftist federal judges presiding in the District of Minnesota right across the street from City Hall will decline to prosecute these blarney newspaper execs for their felony crime.

In this way the Red Star execs enjoy the same immunity from criminal jail time that American Moslems seem to enjoy (the real ones, not the in-prison Afro-American converts).

Inshallah.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 13, 2006 3:35 PM

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