"It's not just the banning of music, but it is the competition between different kinds of music"

This article was put up on FREEMUSE, Freedom of Musical Expression, to understand why the Taliban has a campaign against music.

Here is an excerpt from the interview-

"You know, the Taliban like to invoke the hadith, that, you know, the person who listens to music will, on the day of judgment, have molten lead poured into their ears and you can read the rest of it for yourself. But there is one interesting point here to make, and that is how the Taliban actually define music, and it isn't actually correct to say that the Taliban have banned music. They have banned musical instruments and any kind of music-making that involves musical instruments, quite possibly with one exception, and that exception is the frame drum -- the duff -- because there are hadiths in which the Prophet Muhammad appreciates or allows the frame drum to be used in connection with celebrations of weddings and so on." - Radio Libery correspondent Abubakar Siddique

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