Mogadishu radio stations told to stop playing music

[listener]

Agence France-Presse
April 4, 2010 

A hardline Somali Islamist group issued a 10-day ultimatum yesterday to Mogadishu-based radio stations to stop playing all kinds of music or face unspecified penalties, an Islamist leader said.

The Hezb al-Islam group, which controls patches of the war-riven Somali capital, said playing music on radio stations was evil.

"We call on the local radio stations to stop broadcasting the songs and all music as well. We give them a 10-day deadline and any radio station found not complying with the orders ... will face sharia action," said a senior Hezb al-Islam official.

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I wonder if this applies to their National Anthem, if there be one.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

As Gary "War Nerd" Brecher put it: "Allah's a funny guy: he's down with all kinds of rough stuff — torture, slavery — but he can't stand music."

[Todd]

"We call on the local radio stations to stop broadcasting the songs and all music as well. We give them a 10-day deadline and any radio station found not complying with the orders ... will face sharia action," said a senior Hezb al-Islam official."

That would make vacations there just a bit more drab.

[springrite]

That would make vacations there just a bit more drab.

Yeah. Go to North Korea instead where at least one gets to hear Internationale.

[Dax]

Yeah. Go to North Korea instead where at least one gets to hear Internationale.

With some difficulty. It's a theocracy, not a socialist state.

[MN Dave]

Yay religion!

[david johnson]

Yay religion!

A foolishly broad brush stroke.  Shame.

[MN Dave]

 

[MishaK]

With some difficulty. It's a theocracy, not a socialist state.

It's neither. It's a very weird personality cult.