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06-19-2009, 01:46 PM
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Musicians attacked at wedding
Mon Jun 15, 2009
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said Monday, a sign of the fighters' growing influence.
While in power from 1996-2001, the Taliban banned music as un-Islamic.
The militants have returned to areas in the east and south of the country, where violence has sharply spiked in recent years. They attack government officials, Afghan police, foreign troops and schools that teach girls, another practice they forbid.
"A party was going on when a group of Taliban grabbed five musicians and started beating them and smashing their musical instruments," said Rahmatullah Khan, a head of Merke Khel village in the east of the country.
"The musicians were tied up with rope to trees last night and villagers found them in the morning when going out for prayers," Khan said.
Khan said Taliban fighters shaved the heads of the musicians and made them take oaths in the presence of villagers that they would not sing or play music at weddings again.
Afghan weddings and engagement parties in rural areas are traditionally celebrated with hundreds of guests, music and singing that often continues until late at night. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090615/od_nm/us_musicians |
06-19-2009, 01:53 PM
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06-19-2009, 01:55 PM
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06-19-2009, 01:57 PM
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06-19-2009, 01:57 PM
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06-19-2009, 02:20 PM
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06-19-2009, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Kirkowitz We need to get Ted Nugent some gigs over there and see how these a-holes like that. A musician that's happy to shoot back! | +1  |
06-19-2009, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex Was the band's name The Taliband?? | LOL you joke, but there IS a Taliband!! http://www.myspace.com/thetalliband
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06-19-2009, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Kirkowitz We need to get Ted Nugent some gigs over there and see how these a-holes like that. A musician that's happy to shoot back! | Smashing idea! |
06-19-2009, 02:33 PM
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06-19-2009, 02:34 PM
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06-19-2009, 02:47 PM
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...Somebody spilling my beer is really nothing to fret over anymore. | No, it definitely still is.
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06-19-2009, 09:56 PM
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06-20-2009, 01:42 AM
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06-20-2009, 01:50 AM
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06-20-2009, 01:52 AM
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06-20-2009, 01:56 AM
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06-20-2009, 02:24 AM
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Originally Posted by neatobassman I am mainly shocked that there's a religion AGAINST MUSIC! My whole out look on life has changed | You really didn't know that!?!? There's whole other worlds out there, friend. Some of them aren't very nice.
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06-20-2009, 02:24 AM
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06-20-2009, 02:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Kirkowitz We need to get Ted Nugent some gigs over there and see how these a-holes like that. A musician that's happy to shoot back! | -1 in this case it's not a deer with no gun,Ted might not be up to the challenge of dealing with guerrilla warfare at his age.
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