Rock star takes on fundies

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3322539.stm

<Salman Ahmad, guitarist with rock group Junoon, has one question for the clerics: "Where in Islam does it say that music is forbidden?">

<A public ban on music has gradually taken effect in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, after a radical alliance of right-wing religious parties swept to power in local elections last year.

Music and film stores have closed, musicians have been harassed and vigilantes routinely tear down posters and torch tapes, decrying them as "un-Islamic". >

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1. nice.

Shame it's gonna get him killed.

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2. Not necessarily

Cheb Khaled is still alive, though not for lack of attempts on his life...

I think he moved to France, at some point, too.

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3. maybe Cat Stevens is gonna assassinate him

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