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Somalia: Muslims murder Islamic leader and at least 17 of his followers for playing music

Nov 26, 2018 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Whenever I note that Islamic law forbids music (aside from nasheeds, a cappella songs encouraging jihad), I am excoriated as a greasy Islamophobe, but it’s nonetheless true:

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:

(1) “Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”

(2) “On the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress.”

(3) “Song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.”

(4) “This community will experience the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.” Someone asked, “When will this be, O Messenger of Allah?” and he said, “When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.”

(5) “There will be peoples of my Community who will hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful ….” — Reliance of the Traveller r40.0

“2 attacks in Somalia; Islamic cleric who played music killed,” by Abdi Guled, Associated Press, November 26, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Somalia was hit by two violent attacks Monday, one killing an Islamic cleric and 17 of his followers for playing music and a second killing at least six people in a car bomb blast in the capital, Mogadishu, police said.

The car bomb was detonated Monday at a busy junction in Mogadishu’s Wadajir district, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein. He said 15 people were injured and the blast appears to have been aimed at soldiers who were gathered at the junction.

In the northern city of Galkayo, a prominent Islamic leader and at least 17 of his followers were killed by extremists for having music in their religious ceremonies, say police.

Two suicide bombers exploded in front of the preacher’s residence, which is also a Sufi shrine, and then four gunmen stormed the building and opened fire, said Ahmed Awale, a police officer in Galkayo. At least 20 others were injured, he said….

Somalia’s extremist rebels, al-Shabab, have claimed responsibility for the attack in Galkayo.

The attack killed Sheikh Abdiweli Ali Elmi, who has hundreds of followers and has been controversial because videos show him and his followers chanting religious poems with music, which some extremists say is not Islamic. Sheikh Elmi had defended his actions, saying music is not contrary to Islamic teachings.

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Filed Under: Al-Shabaab, Featured, Sharia, Somalia, Sufis, suicide bombing Tagged With: Galkayo, Mogadishu


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  1. Andy says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 2:03 pm

    For playing music, Oh my gosh Islam is nuts. Moslems would just destroy me because not a day goes by without a little ditty coming out my music player.

    • Terry Gain says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 4:39 pm

      Andy

      That’s not the primary reason they wouid do you in.

      🙂

      I continue to be amazed that something as irrational as Islam has survived this long. I have no doubt that its influence would wain if we disputed its claim to be a religion.

      • Andy says

        Nov 26, 2018 at 5:52 pm

        +1

        Your right Terry.

      • Joshua says

        Nov 27, 2018 at 3:38 am

        Do not give it validity by equating islam with the other respectable world religions. Identify it as what it really is: a bloody supremacist death cult. Use only that description, or another, but at the very least the term “cult” must be utilized.

    • abad says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 6:20 pm

      Islam is a mental illness.

      And this took place in Somalia?

      It is a concern to us because there are way too many Somali Moslems here in the states and they really do not belong here.

  2. Krishna says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    Islamic insanity at peak
    Can’t understand why Mohammedans are so insane

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 27, 2018 at 7:48 pm

      It’s the ideology they adhere to.

    • Prabh says

      Nov 28, 2018 at 12:19 pm

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      1400+ years of forced inbreeding/miscegenation by most condemnable irredeemably demoniacal entities in quasi-humanoidal form: the islamojihadist mujahideen 4 sake of bloody islamo-umma, ji.

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      Deva-Devian aka Gods, Godesses.

      Top Blogger Vadakayil has graciously revealed symbol of profit MohaMAD and other haters of Dharma is 6 pointed star. A bit weird since there are six classical schools of Bharat philosophy. Lots of expropriation has taken place since start of current kaliyuga, over 5000 years ago.

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  3. Jaladhi says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 2:13 pm

    This is the “peaceful” Islam that our delusional political leaders and academia dream off everyday!! Morons!

  4. Robert Carrillo says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    Quiz Question:

    Where on the entire planet, are the largest population of these fine folks living NOW, OUTSIDE the country of Somalia?

    What country? Anyone? Anyone?

    What state withing that country? Anyone? Anyone?

    Answer? Minnesota of course.. ..and they are stampeding here even more than before by the busload now…

    Why? Because this is an insane asylum, that’s why.. ..For “free stuff’.. ..To colonize.. ..To confiscate.. ..To displace us.. ..To consume everything in sight, including our freedom..

    And, if we complain about any of it, the new and NEXT CORRUPT Minnesota Attorney General, Keith “X” “Hakim” “Mohamed” Ellison, will charge you and me with “Hate Speech” and a “Hate Crime”, under some version of a “blasphemy law” he will create….

    Once accomplished, we will see the imposition of what this story is all about.. …Barbarism!

    Result? This will no longer be Minnesota, or any hint of what that used to be, in five years or less…

    Why? Because this is an insane asylum, that’s why..

    • JAT 349 says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 4:23 pm

      CANADA !!!!!!!
      Thanks to (shiny pony) Turdeau and his muslim ass kissing liberal government.
      He appointed a somali immigrant to the position to minister of immigration of CANADA.

  5. pfwag says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 2:52 pm

    Same people who cannot distinguish the difference between “raisins” and “virgins”?

    • Terry Gain says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 4:41 pm

      Raisins with big eyes and swelling breasts. Must be delicious.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 27, 2018 at 7:51 pm

        Yep.

        • Andy says

          Nov 27, 2018 at 7:54 pm

          LOL 🙂

        • Andy says

          Nov 27, 2018 at 8:58 pm

  6. FYI says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 2:53 pm

    “On the day of resurrection allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sings listening to the song off a songstress”

    So muslims can’t listen to a female singer..a shame…

    Karen Carpenter{the most divine,pitch-perfect melodic voice you could imagine}

    Barabara Streisand{a JEWISH woman singing?..Oh no!..that would kill allah..}

    Maria Callas

    Opera singers are out obviously..

    As for musical instruments,didn’t King David play the lute?
    God doesn’t have a problem with women singing{Baptist women’s choir..},music or musical instruments but it seems allah does.

    • abad says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 6:23 pm

      That’s because Allah is Satan.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Nov 27, 2018 at 10:24 am

        That’s because no one is ever allowed to be dedicated to anyone or anything MORE than Allah What’s-his-name. And that must surely be because Allah loves and provides for his minions and props sooooo very, very well – despite extremely evil opponents!

    • Carol the 1st says

      Nov 27, 2018 at 11:19 am

      Our fine friend Apostate Prophet has described the “music issue” in more detail. At 5:00 he even has a map showing some of the patterns of what is or is not accepted or practiced:

      Islam vs. Music

  7. somehistory says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 3:54 pm

    if there came to be two people only left on earth…and they were both moslim,..even if they came from the same human father…they could not live together for fear one would become “extreme” and kill the other one.
    Perhaps for a song.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 27, 2018 at 7:58 pm

      So true.

  8. No Muzzies Here says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 3:57 pm

    This does not inspire a lot of hope for a reform of Islam.

    • abad says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 6:25 pm

      Islam can never be reformed. It is evil to its very core.

      Moslems want to kill you.

      Christians want to convert you.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Nov 27, 2018 at 11:03 am

      Take out the bad stuff and there’s nothing left to reform but sugar water. It’s time has come. Hail to the INTERNET! (Don’t forget Amil Imani’s request for satellite to Iran. He wants help against the mobsters).

  9. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 4:10 pm

    One of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s irrepressible contributions to world culture:

    “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humour in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”

    Of course this demands to be roundly parodied. Sorry Imran, I tried very hard to restrain myself, but, you know, my iman is weak. Please don’t report me to the UN.

    • Westman says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 6:32 pm

      Yes, Anjuli, Islam does deserve parody.

      There was a famous principle put forth in 1969 by Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull called the “Peter Principle” that posits individuals and institutions rise or are promoted until they reach incompetence.

      Islam was recognized as incompetent, long ago, by Churchill as he described its backward and inefficient ways. It is still trying to gain prominence through physical means after losing it in WWI. Of course, this can never succeed without exposure to the clear thinking of technical and scientifically advanced studies and societies.

      Stabbing Londoners, shooting Somalis, or becoming the religion of incarcerated criminals is not going to have any favorable effect for Islam; it simply highlights its incompetence in this world; a world no longer dependent on physical strength, a world that surpassed Islam almost a hundred years ago. Minds clouded by untested thoughts, denied unfettered art and science, with its industry interrupted 5 times a day for endless rote memes, cannot carry a nation or religion to greatness in a modern world.

      • b.a. freeman says

        Nov 26, 2018 at 7:49 pm

        U are correct, Westman, to note that “[m]inds clouded by [bulls**t] cannot carry a nation … to greatness,” but they don’t *have* to be carried to greatness; as with all thugs, all they have to do is use the tools invented by great thinkers to attack the thinkers and their progeny. check just about any criminal U want, and probably only a few would know how to manufacture a gun, yet they all know how to *use* a gun to rob, rape, and steal. and so it is with pious muslims. pious muslims will *kill* their own for studying science, because causality is a blasphemy that implies that allah does *not* completely control each moment independently of every other moment, but once the tool has been built, even if by blasphemous means, they will use it to rob, rape, and steal.

      • Carol the 1st says

        Nov 27, 2018 at 10:27 am

        Keep having those good thoughts Westman!

    • James Lincoln says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 7:30 pm

      Anjuli Pandavar,

      Interesting contrast to the Declaration of Independence – “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…”

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 27, 2018 at 8:00 pm

        Spot on, James.

  10. Terry Gain says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 4:34 pm

    Another misunderstanding of Islam BY MUSLIMS.

    This has been going on for 14 centuries. It is a daily occurrence. Without question, a lot of Muslims never got the message that Islam is a religion of peace. Unfortunately among the Muslims who never got the message was a guy named Muhammed. Since he is the role model, his followers tell you it’s raining when they are ……. on your leg.

    • David M says

      Nov 26, 2018 at 7:16 pm

      Stand by for a comment on this matter by Linda Sarsour……….waiting………..waiting…………

      • Westman says

        Nov 26, 2018 at 10:14 pm

        She may be distracted and confused since someone pointed out that Louis Farrakhan was “raining” on her leg.

  11. Jack Holan says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 8:50 pm

    This recounting of the Hadith whereby Mohammed band music in Islam is telling on so many levels. Perhaps Mohammad didn’t want the People to have diversions that might cause them to stray from his “prophet” Words from Allah. Perhaps he felt anyone devoting time and effort to perfect their musical acuman with an instrument might have the same focus and perfection if they were of such mind to deafest Mohammed and therefore becoming not just a competitor but a potential enemy.
    If Mohammad had not “heard the Word of Allah “ he easily could have applied for interrogator or tortortur and been hand the best. ‘Pour Milton lead into the ears of the songstress. ‘. This guys mind is on another wave length. Since the Jihadists have battled the coalition forces using the Quran as a Primmer and the past of Mohammed as a guidebook for successfully combatting to an extent; I strongly suggest that West Point anc Sandhurst start studying the source documents for the mindset of the Jihadist. We have yet to experience the real purpose of the Hijra, total pandemonium and European defeatism. What the EU has done with the help of the UN is to surrender Europe to an Anti-Judeo-Christian Civilization for whom their stated purpose is to end our Civilization and replace it with Sharia under which everyone will live in fear every day. Just pick any Muslim Country for quick study. All this has been done for anticipated cheap labor to fill the void of Negative European Population Growth. The push for population decrease was the misguided Leftists (It Failed) and now this is their solution to their disaster, all Europeans be damned they will follow what we dictate according to them. The genie that will pop out of the Lamp is at least 10,000 armed and trained Jihadists. The distraction of one here or there the authorities merely attribute to mental illness as the USSR for political prisoners. Now we are them and the Leaders divert attention with fake Islamaphobe a word conjured up by the Muslim Brotherhood as a strategy to deflect blame. The Leaders and Media bit right into it not realizing it’s merely a tactic created by Jihadist facilitators in a War the West doesn’t yet fully understand.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 27, 2018 at 8:04 pm

      Few Muslims work–in fact, most of them live on the dole.

  12. Wellington says

    Nov 26, 2018 at 10:58 pm

    Yeah, Islamic musical theater is a pretty thin repertoire.

  13. infidel says

    Nov 27, 2018 at 2:45 am

    Did that old washed out hag called Sinead take note of this??

    • Lauren Hermann says

      Nov 27, 2018 at 8:37 am

      Maybe this is a blessing in disguise — I could not stand her songs or her voice. Yippee! We won’t be hearing her anymore. Always look on the bright side of life!

  14. Jay says

    Nov 27, 2018 at 10:42 am

    Kill it before it spreads. If it spreads, keep killing it.

  15. WPM says

    Nov 27, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    Islam the cancer that is trying to destroy it host ,then it will feed and kill its own kind leaving the world to be uncivilized, violent, uncultured, uninteresting lives of people reduced to breeding ,eating, killing in there short life span. Bring people down to the level of pack animals like wolves being lead by the most ruthless ,violent ,crazed Islamic imams.

  16. gravenimage says

    Nov 27, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    Somalia: Muslims murder Islamic leader and at least 17 of his followers for playing music
    …………………

    Muslims always say that Islam brings peace–but nothing could be less true. Because not matter how Islamic anyone is, it is never enough–and there are always pious Muslims who will violently enforce it.

    Hence, the most Islamic societies–Somalia is statistically 100% Muslim–are always the worst.

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