The Taliban has been seeking out weddings to find any of them playing music or celebrating in any manner that contradicts Islam. Music, except nasheeds, a cappella exhortations to jihad, are all haram in Islam. To give an idea of how seriously these rules are taken by those who strictly adhere to the Sharia in […]
Afghanistan: Taliban orders mannequins beheaded after head of Virtue and Vice ministry rules they are ‘idols’
The Daily Mail, positively the worst publication in the Western world, ascribes this to the Taliban’s strict interpretation of Islam.” However, once the mannequins are declared idols, there is no interpretation of Islam that would render them acceptable. The only difference here between the Taliban and other Muslim groups is that some of the others […]
Afghanistan: Taliban forbid drivers to play music in cars
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 […]