Radical Islam, Music, and Canadian Values

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Middle East Forum/The Toronto Sun:

Tarek Fatah

September 7, 2016

 

The debate about "Canadian values" — started by Kellie Leitch, one of the candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party — erupted into the predictable insinuation that she was racist, xenophobic, and guilty of the ultimate offence of the times: Islamophobia.

 

Fortunately, for her, it did not take long for the question of Canadian values clashing head on with medieval beliefs to erupt when the Globe and Mail on Tuesday reported on how a number of Muslim families in Toronto had taken their children out of music classes, insisting they "cannot allow their children to be in the same room where musical instruments are being played."

 

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You, whose ancestors produced Shakespeare, will you let his love of music be mocked as a sin? The Bard wrote in Twelfth Night, "If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."

 

The hatred of music by radical Islamists and the Muslim solution to such contempt of our values reminds me of the Ottoman solution in dealing with the Saudis of the early 19th century. In 1802, the first Wahhabi Saudi state attacked Iraq and ransacked the tomb of Prophet Muhammad's grandson in Karbala. Later these Wahhabi fanatics occupied all of what is Saudi Arabia today.

 

The Ottomans, relying on their Egyptian army led by an Albanian general Muhammad Ali, struck back and after a long war, defeated the music-hating Wahhabi Saudis in 1818. Ottoman retribution was swift and fierce. The Saudi capital of Dirye was destroyed and thousands beheaded. Suffice to say there was no "Last Post" bugle call for the dead.

 

The Ottoman Turks dragged the defeated Saudi ruler Abdullah bin Saud back to Istanbul where they tortured him by playing music in his ears; the instrument being the lute, supposedly forbidden in Islam. It is said the Saudi was driven insane by the music and was soon beheaded with his naked body put on display on the streets.

 

But that was 1818 and we are in 2016.

 

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Why The Islamists WILL Lose

 

 

 

 

 

At Least I Don't Want To Live In A World Without Music.