--- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .....
It reminds me of another newsweek > article (go newsweek!) by a former Islamic radical convert who had to > give up all his music. That was the first bad sign. Slowly he > realized he was being brainwashed and jumped off the radical Islam > caravan. I will post it separately. In Montreal, some Muslim parents are asking (demanding - haha, "demand" in French means "ask"....dunno what the French for demand is) that their kids be exempted from the compulsory music classes, because singing and playing instruments IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL or something. I'm happy to say that a local imam said that was a lot of hooey, the Koran doesn't forbid music, and as long as the kids don't join gay bands...okay, he didn't say THAT bit... Really strict Islam forbids art, dancing, music and lots of things that are *fun*. We Christians, esp. we Protestants, tried that and it maybe got us building bridges and steam-engines (I'm thinking Scottish Presbyterians, such as my forebears), but it's hard to keep the repression going. For the Muslims (non-PC "joke" warning here), if the young men can't sing, dance, have sex, what's left but to blow people up?
