I love music. I’ve grown up listening to music and playing songs on everything from a Walkman to an Ipod. Today I rarely sit in a car without the radio on. And in school, a few too many years ago, I sang along at assembly and loved the songs used. I even tried, unsuccessfully, to learn to play a couple of musical instruments.
I’m also, usually, proud to be Muslim. What’s the connection, you may ask? Well, when I heard reports on BBC London News that hundreds of Muslim parents are withdrawing their children from primary school music lessons because their beliefs forbid them from learning an instrument, I was more than a little unpleasantly surprised. [Pickled Politics] Read more
Muslim parents, have a little faith in music .... I recall a few years ago watching Yusuf Islam play his guitar on stage at the ExCel centre in Docklands. The event was broadcast live on the Islam Channel. After Yusuf Islam came off stage, on came a big-bearded chap who proceeded to loudly berate the organisers for allowing the "un-Islamic" guitar to be played at their event. If only he knew what else many of the young Muslim kids in the audience had on their iPods ... [Guardian Cif] Read more
Muslim pupils taken out of Music lessons Sadly Muslim kids are being allowed by schools to be withdrawn from Music lessons by their primitive parents because in their backward minds playing a Musical instrument is banned in Islam.
Scholars in Islam differ on the merits of Music with some believing it is Haram while other more enlightened and progressive scholars agreeing Music is permitted so long as it does not contain sensual, pagan or unethical themes something the local school choir is not renowned for. [London Muslim] Read more
