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Top Saudi cleric Adil Kalbani announced that he’s changed his mind about not minding music this week, just a month after he sparked outrage by suggesting that he could find nothing specific in the Koran banning music outright.

The reputedly liberal Iman offended traditionalists by saying ‘decent singing . . . which contains decent words, and supports morality’ should be allowed in the Islamic world though this week admitted on reflection he’d made a serious mistake.

“Most singing today … brings with it debauchery, obscenity and abomination,” he told Saudi newspaper Saudi al-Hayat.  ‘Even conservative singing authorized by some clerics can be described as drivel at the very least,” he added.

His assessment matched the views of Christian music critic Donald Phau who in an earlier article considering the ‘Satanic Roots of Rock’ suggested the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were the precursors to a sinister wave of diabolic deviancy.

“Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults,” he declared.

“On the one side, the Satanists control the major rock groups through drugs, sex, threats of violence, and even murder. On the otherside, publicity, tours, and recordings are financed by record companies connected to British military intelligence circles. Both sides are intimately entwined with the biggest business in the world, the international drug trade,” he added.

British alternative music critic Stewart Home similarly claimed the CIA murdered Nirvana frontman Kurt Kobain in 1994, after brainwashing the grunge star as part of an evil plan to prevent young white people from supporting then resurgent black radicalism.

“The white Grunge movement spearheaded by Nirvana was backed by the CIA because ‘they wanted to divide youngsters on racial lines, if black and white kids linked up, they’d pose a serious threat to the system,” Home suggested. “The whole point of Grunge is to instill in teenagers a sense of hopelessness, to fill them with self-hate and prevent them from changing the world,” he added.

Donald Phau on Satan & Rock: ‘Today, at almost any “heavy-metal” rock concert one can hear the audience being exhorted to rape and murder in the name of Satan . . .’)

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An Islamic leader branded Manchester football shirts ‘very dangerous’ this week as he ordered Muslims to refrain from wearing them because of the red devil logo displayed within the badge. (Buy Man United Shirts HERE, from £44)

Former Mufti Nooh Gadot from Johor said that the case against wearing the diabolical soccer jerseys was so clear-cut that a fatwa wasn’t even needed, a stance endorsed by fellow cleric Harussani Zakaria from Perak state.

“Yes of course in Islam we don’t allow people to wear this sort of thing,” Sheik Zakaria concurred, “Devils are our enemies, why would you put their picture on you and wear it? You are only promoting the devil,” he pointed out. (Daily Mail)

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Meanwhile in Pakistan, influential Grand Mufti Arshad Faruqui was fiercely criticized by rival muftis, after he issued a fatwa banning females over 13 from riding bikes because ‘apart from affecting their femininity, (cycling) is harmful for their body structure’.

“Some maulanas and muftis seem bent becoming laughing stocks,” rival religious leader Maulana Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali, from Lucknow grumbled, “They should act with more gravity,” he complained (DNA India; http://tinyurl.com/2vkhpsn )

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Unusually liberal Saudi Iman Adel al-Kalbani sparked controversy this week after he claimed that there was nothing in the Koran forbidding singing.

“There is no clear text or ruling in Islam that singing and music are haram,” said Kalbani in a fatwa decriminalizing singing.

“The problem is that there are some who do not accept debate at all,” he continued, stressing that he was only referring to wholesome music.

“I am talking about decent singing,” he said “Which contains decent words, and supports morality.”

Islamic news agency Ahlul Bayt said al Kalbani’s statement sparked a ‘pitched battle’ between him and conservative hardliners over who’s allowed to issue fatwas, with the issues about modernisation increasingly causing tension in the Middle East.

The dispute exploded just as details emerged of al Qaida publishing their first English magazine, Inspire which appeared this week on jihadist websites around the world.

The glossy periodical includes feature practical advice articles including ‘How to send and receive encrypted messages‘ and ‘Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom’ and an exclusive message from Osama Bin Laden on “how to save the earth,”

Prominent US blogger Marc Ambider (CBS New’s Chief political commentator) suggested the US is ‘quite worried about Al Qaeda’s new publishing ambitions’ though suggested ‘black’ propagandists could be at play.

“It is possible, although not likely, that the magazine is a fabrication, a production of a Western intelligence agency that wants to undermine Al Qaeda by eroding confidence in its production and distribution networks,” he speculated, “The U.S. is engaged in direct net-based warfare with jihadis; this sort of operation would not be too difficult to pull off,” he added. (The Atlantic)

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Saudi women responded creatively to top cleric Sheik Abdel Mohsen Obeikan’s recommendation that they should share breast milk with colleagues to get round no mixing Islamic rules, by launching a campaign this week called ‘”We either be allowed to drive or breastfeed foreigners.”

The wannabe women drivers came up with their scheme after the Sheik advocated sharing breast milk with men they regularly came into contact with, to establish a religiously approved maternal bond, based on the assumption that it would remove the threat of sexual intimacy occurring between couples.

“The man should take the milk, but not directly from the breast of the woman,” the Sheik ordered (according to a report in Gulf News), “He should drink it and then becomes a relative of the family, a fact that allows him to come in contact with the women without breaking Islam’s rules about mixing,” he added.

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In more Fatwah news, Iranian cleric Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi issued a decree banning Muslims from keeping dogs as pets this week, claiming Islamic tradition regards them as ‘unclean’,

“Friendship with dogs is a blind imitation of the West,” the Grand Ayatollah reportedly said, “There are lots of people in the West who love their dogs more than their wives and children.”

His assessment matched that of an anonymous Indian journalist who several years earlier recommended tourists be extremely careful about interacting with animals when vacationing in the UK.

“Try never to make disparaging remarks about any pet; you will be viewed with extreme suspicion,” he advised in an article in the Hindu newspaper published on 2003.

“I have concluded that ill-treating a dog or any other pet in England is a crime far worse than uxorcide (wife-killing),” he added (Sunday Times).

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