My latest in PJ Media: Fawad Andarabi was an Afghan folk singer who played the ghichak, a lute played with a bow, and sang about his native land. One of his songs contained the lyric: “There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation. Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents’ homeland.” […]
Afghanistan: Taliban murder folk singer who sang about ‘my homeland, a proud nation’
The Taliban are being entirely consistent. Islamic law forbids music. “Taliban murder Afghan singer: Folk musician who played the lute and sang traditional songs for locals in the mountains was ‘dragged out of his home and shot in the head,’” MailOnline, August 29, 2021: The Taliban have killed an Afghan folk singer in a restive […]