Afghanistan: Taliban burn ‘immoral’ musical instruments (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Can that shithole get any worse?

[-] FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Of course it can.

[-] Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Somehow it manages to be worse every day. What’s happening there is extremely sad and the worst thing is that there doesn’t seem to be light at the end of the tunnel.

[-] Sterile_Technique@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

But like... why? Does their religion actually have some angst with music, or is this another one of those "god told me so in a dream!" kinda bullshit?

[-] PokeCaptain@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasheed#Scholars_on_instruments

[-] Sterile_Technique@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

...well fuck, I didn't actually expect the former. This world would be so much better without that religious nonsense. -_-

[-] ndguardian@lemmy.studio 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, I could have just offered myself up to be corrupted by these "immoral" instruments. If they didn't want the instruments around, they could have let me take them.

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

No way, you would be doing the devil’s work if you finger those instruments.

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 4 points 1 year ago

Honest question, what do they do for fun? It seems like basically every Western recreational activity is banned and their jihad is over, so how do these people occupy the time?