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Re: [idm] Muslimgauze. this has nothing to do with brian eno/david byrne, only the koran.

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2000-08-16 22:38Re: [idm] Muslimgauze. this has nothing to do with brian eno/david byrne, only the koran.
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2000-08-16 22:38"kiya \"i am a copier\" babzani" <denial@ix.netcom.com>> >Since you brought it up - Is there a type of music where the Koran is > >open season? t
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quoted 2 lines Since you brought it up - Is there a type of music where the Koran is> >Since you brought it up - Is there a type of music where the Koran is > >open season?
technically. no. yet, if it's done by muslims, and in good taste, it IS allowed. different beliefs, different religions, but it's kind of like when madonna starting dressing up in sacred indian ritual outfits, and purists in india had gotten quite upset. NOT because she was not indian, but because it's fucking madonna! i mean, i've lived in california pretty much my whole life, yet was born not many miles away from Mecca, and despite my technical religion of being a shiite muslim (which i mostly do not practice), i would be pretty fucking upset if i flipped on a channel and saw brittany spears parading around in some mutalated version of a muslim "yikshambesoori". yeah.
quoted 4 lines I believe what got the Islamics' robes in a bunch> I believe what got the Islamics' robes in a bunch > was the use of *words* from the Koran; Muslimgauze > didn't pillage the holy book (AFAIK) for extra propaganda > power on his releases.
wrong. there are pages out of the Koran that are read word for word on at least three or four of the tracks i own by him...not in arabic, not in turkish, but in the farsi (persian) translation of the Koran. and if i only own about 8 to 10 muslimgauze releases, im assuming there are many more tracks along the same lines... there's even one track, that i think is on his Vampire of Tehran cd, that has a cutup iranian female's voice talking about a terrorist attack intended to destroy a american visitors embassy outside ahwaz, while parts of the koran are solemnly sung over and over again throughout the track. how fucking crazy is that? it's crazy that im a 23 year old iranian refugee listening to muslimgauze.
quoted 4 lines But this discussion makes me wonder if any Palestinians> But this discussion makes me wonder if any Palestinians > ever heard Muslimgauze's music and if it ever helped > their cause. I mean, did his music even *make it* > to those Arab countries?
yes. there are many young extremist iranians that are very active in the current political changes that are going on in iran, and they write a zine in farsi called "Rouz-e-gaar-emshab" (roughly translated into "as the day turns into night"), and in that zine (which obviously doesn't contain their real names), i've seen them mention the music of Muslimgauze over three or four times in the past four or five years. so yes, music has a way of making it's way into the strangest places... end. i have to get back to work now. uhm, oh yeah, go out and get the lowfish album. still one the best releases of the year. too bad it doesn't come with a free sweet potato pie. -kiya i am a copier. we are not all copiers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org