Because they’re “un-Islamic.” Islamic law forbids music (cf. ‘Umdat al-Salik r40.1), although this law has of course often been ignored. There is some terrific music created in the Islamic world. And of course there was beginning in the Fifties an Islamic vogue in American jazz, with prominent musicians — Art Blakey (Abdullah ibn Buhaina), Yusef … Continue reading Pakistan music shops blown up