Mali
I don't know the details. I'm sure they're available online somewhere. There's some unholy (holy) alliance in the north of Mali. A combination of religious and political fundamentalists (mentalists) who have issued a jihad on music. That's worth coming out against strongly isn't it? I can imagine the mental (in both senses of the word – Oxford English and street definitions) processes behind that one:
Now, what shall we target?
War? Famine? - Nah. Too cornball. Hackneyed. Obvious.
Financially obsessed drug companies? - No.
Child exploitation? Even adult exploitation? - Nope.
What about the banks and big corporations? No more shall...then a camel...through the eye of a needle and all that? - Been done, that.
Animal cruelty? - No can do, have you seen our rules about ritual slaughter?
I know...
Music.
We'll declare war on music. After all it represents everything us religious folk hate, to whit:
Normal humans doing normal human stuff. All that rubbish about us just being mammals, we're god's chosen.
They dance to it.
And worse!
It's beautiful and primal and therefore very scary. They'll be running from our sermons to the dancehalls if we're not careful.
Yes.
That's it.
Kill the musicians.
So the guys responsible for some fantastic, energetic, beautiful sounds have had to flee, to go underground, to leave their country, to do their jobs. All because some nutters have their knickers in a knot.
Meanwhile, in the We Hate Foreigners xenophobia zone
The authorities are doing their best to ruin two lives.
There's a petition here:
http://t.co/E5XUxQY2OS
Bung our very own fundamentalist nutters a quick email. It may do some good, after all.
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