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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/899780

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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. -_-