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Music fails to chime with Islamic values, says Iran’s supreme leader

Saeed Kamali Dehghan
Posted: August 5, 2010.

Print: The Guardian, UK

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today that music is “not compatible” with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practised or taught in the country.

In some of the most extreme comments by a senior regime figure since the 1979 revolution, Khamenei said: “Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic.”

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1. Daniel Schealler

O_o

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Suddenly, I wish I was more musical.

posted on August 5, 2010
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Is it possible for the U.S. military to fly a drone over Khamenei’s home while blaring 2 Live Crew’s “Me So Horny?”

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3. Matthew K.

It is sufficiently horrible that one might think it were a joke, only it isn’t.

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4. Absinthius

How is it that there are still people that do not see this kind of nonsense as what it is… Namely a desperate attempt to practically enslave a whole countries population.

This has nothing to do with anything but an ego-flattering display of “look at what i can make those numpities do, mom!”

posted on August 6, 2010
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