The present.......
It's sad to hear about the Kashmiri all-girl band quitting music after having received a fatwa, from a mad cleric.
Their painful decision has been arrived at after facing relentless persecution by conservatives on the social media and receiving threats from religious leaders and extremists. The rock band named 'Pragaash'(A Kashmiri word meaning 'from darkness to light')* consisting of three girls, in their teens, viz. Farah Deeba(drummer), Aneeka Khalid(guitarist) and Noma Nazir(vocalist-guitarist) was founded in 2005 by Adnan Mattoo, who lives in Dehra Dun and Sheikh Rahil Saleem, residing in New Delhi.
The Kashmir grand mufti, Bashiruddin, has issued the fatwa against the band saying that it was un-Islamic and against Kashmiri ethos for girls to perform in musical programmes!
*The organisers of the rockband named as 'Bloodrockz' had performed the music concert under the title of 'Pragaash', last December, in the Srinagar stadium!The criticism, on the social network, began soon after that.
The past..........
Years ago, in Indore, donations were being collected for the old Palasia Mosque. Mohammed Rafi contributed Rs.5,000/-, but after sometime, the money was returned. When he found out the reason, he was shocked and he broke down.
The mosque committee had decided that Rafi's earnings could not be used since they were illegitimate, since in Islam, singing is not recognised as a permissible occupation!
A deeply hurt Rafi blurted, "Allah has bestowed only this talent upon me right from childhood, which I practise with great effort and integrity and it's open to the world. Even then, my earnings are illegitimate?
My take.
Wrong interpretation of the holy book, by wretched and narrow minded people who seem to be hell bent on trampling on the right to freedom of expression of the common man. They need to be prevented from executing their will by the collective reaction of the people.
Tailpiece.
And funds for the economic sustenance of terrorism? Their silence on that aspect is deafening! Their double standards have no parallel!!
It's sad to hear about the Kashmiri all-girl band quitting music after having received a fatwa, from a mad cleric.
Their painful decision has been arrived at after facing relentless persecution by conservatives on the social media and receiving threats from religious leaders and extremists. The rock band named 'Pragaash'(A Kashmiri word meaning 'from darkness to light')* consisting of three girls, in their teens, viz. Farah Deeba(drummer), Aneeka Khalid(guitarist) and Noma Nazir(vocalist-guitarist) was founded in 2005 by Adnan Mattoo, who lives in Dehra Dun and Sheikh Rahil Saleem, residing in New Delhi.
The Kashmir grand mufti, Bashiruddin, has issued the fatwa against the band saying that it was un-Islamic and against Kashmiri ethos for girls to perform in musical programmes!
*The organisers of the rockband named as 'Bloodrockz' had performed the music concert under the title of 'Pragaash', last December, in the Srinagar stadium!The criticism, on the social network, began soon after that.
The past..........
Years ago, in Indore, donations were being collected for the old Palasia Mosque. Mohammed Rafi contributed Rs.5,000/-, but after sometime, the money was returned. When he found out the reason, he was shocked and he broke down.
The mosque committee had decided that Rafi's earnings could not be used since they were illegitimate, since in Islam, singing is not recognised as a permissible occupation!
A deeply hurt Rafi blurted, "Allah has bestowed only this talent upon me right from childhood, which I practise with great effort and integrity and it's open to the world. Even then, my earnings are illegitimate?
My take.
Wrong interpretation of the holy book, by wretched and narrow minded people who seem to be hell bent on trampling on the right to freedom of expression of the common man. They need to be prevented from executing their will by the collective reaction of the people.
Tailpiece.
And funds for the economic sustenance of terrorism? Their silence on that aspect is deafening! Their double standards have no parallel!!
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