\nDoes anyone know where this attitude comes from?\u00a0 Does the Koran specifically forbid music?\u00a0 (I understand how its iconoclasm restricts visual art, but music is art without images.)\u00a0 What is it in the radical Islamic worldview that sets it against music? \u00a0 And, conversely, what is it in the Christian worldview that has made it so open to music\u2013more than that, so creative and\u00a0 influential musically?<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The nation of Mali has Africa\u2019s richest musical tradition and most vibrant musical talent.\u00a0 But Muslim radicals have taken control of that country and are stamping out the music\u2013destroying instruments, forbidding singing, and driving musicians out of the country.\u00a0\u00a0 The article, linked below, is worth reading in its entirety. But I was struck by this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,32],"tags":[458,4346,1510],"class_list":["post-13308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-music","tag-christianity-and-the-arts","tag-islam","tag-music-2"],"yoast_head":"\n
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