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Sahar Lotfi finds it strange that an all-girls band in Kashmir has been hounded into silence. Where she comes from, her all-women group called the Ghazal Band has been blasting out Sufi music at public performances for more than a year. Lotfi and her band members live in Tehran, the centre of Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution.
And the six girls rub it in when they tell people in democratic India that not only are musical concerts by women in Iran a regular feature, often there are bigger crowds attending them. "The music culture in Iran has always been vibrant", says said Sahar Lotfi, lead vocalist.
And while little help has come in for the girls of Kashmir's Pragash rock band, Lotfi says that her family has always been supportive and it was her husband's idea to form a band.
Clad in jeans and top, and with their hair left loose, the girls hardly look like the "typical" Iranian woman. "Sufi tenets originated even before the advent of Islam and have their roots in gypsy traditions. Sufism is close to nature and not influenced by narrow beliefs", they say.
Fatwa on Kashmir girls band stuns Iran musical group - The Times of India
If music played by women is 'un-Islamic', why don't these Hurriyat yahoos and the 'grand Mufti' of Kashmir who has issued a nonsensical fatwa against the three teenagers singing sufi songs raise their voices and object to the so called 'un-Islamic' ways of the Iranians? Why no fatwa issued against these Iranian girls?
"Lay down your weapons
Open up your hearts
Stop fighting
We are one!"
Safoura and Melody of the Iranian rock band Abjeez
WHY THIS HYPOCRISY?
By the way, the Quran does NOT forbid music sung and played by women. There is no reference to this in the Quran. But since the Hadith is supposed to 'explain' the Quran, it is obvious that any Hadith attempting to do so may be a fabrication and OPEN TO INTERPRETATION. The Hadith is not the voice of the Prophet (PBUH). Period!
And the six girls rub it in when they tell people in democratic India that not only are musical concerts by women in Iran a regular feature, often there are bigger crowds attending them. "The music culture in Iran has always been vibrant", says said Sahar Lotfi, lead vocalist.
And while little help has come in for the girls of Kashmir's Pragash rock band, Lotfi says that her family has always been supportive and it was her husband's idea to form a band.
Clad in jeans and top, and with their hair left loose, the girls hardly look like the "typical" Iranian woman. "Sufi tenets originated even before the advent of Islam and have their roots in gypsy traditions. Sufism is close to nature and not influenced by narrow beliefs", they say.
Fatwa on Kashmir girls band stuns Iran musical group - The Times of India
If music played by women is 'un-Islamic', why don't these Hurriyat yahoos and the 'grand Mufti' of Kashmir who has issued a nonsensical fatwa against the three teenagers singing sufi songs raise their voices and object to the so called 'un-Islamic' ways of the Iranians? Why no fatwa issued against these Iranian girls?
"Lay down your weapons
Open up your hearts
Stop fighting
We are one!"
Safoura and Melody of the Iranian rock band Abjeez
WHY THIS HYPOCRISY?
By the way, the Quran does NOT forbid music sung and played by women. There is no reference to this in the Quran. But since the Hadith is supposed to 'explain' the Quran, it is obvious that any Hadith attempting to do so may be a fabrication and OPEN TO INTERPRETATION. The Hadith is not the voice of the Prophet (PBUH). Period!
What's needs to be done is to ban her and her two-penny cronies instead!
