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Why Did Lenin and Muhammad Hate Music?
PJ MEDIA
Robert Spencer
Ultimately, the war between the forces of jihad and the free world is a conflict between individualism and collectivism. Nothing shows that more vividly than each side’s attitude toward music.
“I cannot listen much to music,” Lenin once said. “It excites my nerves. I feel like talking nonsense and caressing people who, living in such a filthy hell, can create such beauty. Because today one must not caress anyone; they will bite off your hand. One must break heads, pitilessly break heads, even if, ideally, we are opposed to all violence.”
Another totalitarian man of peace, Muhammad, is quoted as saying: “Allah Mighty and Majestic sent me as a guidance and mercy to believers and commanded me to do away with musical instruments, flutes, strings, crucifixes, and the affair of the pre-Islamic period of ignorance.”
Musical instruments, flutes, strings, and crucifixes! This command came with a warning: Muhammad is also supposed to have said that “on the Day of Resurrection, Allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress,” for “song makes hypocrisy grow in the heart as water does herbage.” He warned that the Muslim community would one day experience times of tribulation, featuring “the swallowing up of some people by the earth, metamorphosis of some into animals, and being rained upon with stones.”
When his followers asked him when this would be, he answered: “When songstresses and musical instruments appear and wine is held to be lawful.” There would come a dark day, he said, when even some Muslims would “hold fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments to be lawful.” (‘Umdat al-Salik r40.0)
It isn’t hard to see why the creators of martial polities and new, aggressively expansionistic political and societal systems such as Lenin and Muhammad would disdain music. For music is an expression of the human spirit – the very thing that these totalitarians were trying to master. And no music so fully expresses the anti-totalitarian impulse, and the dignity and value of every human person, than does jazz.
For jazz is not jazz if it doesn’t contain a considerable element of improvisation, and improvisation is an expression of the individual soul par excellence. A musician who is improvising has nothing to fall back on except his own inner reservoir, and that is why jazz at its best is so immediate, so personal, and so affecting. Miles Davis and John Coltrane improvising on the same piece couldn’t sound more different from one another, not just because one plays trumpet and the other tenor sax, but because they are so very different from one another as human beings, and in their improvisations, one can hear into their very hearts and souls. One may learn their solos note-for-note (as I did back in the pre-9/11 days when I played a bit of saxophone myself), but this is just a musical exercise; the music itself can be copied but never replicated, for their individual expression is inherent and essential to it.
Totalitarian collectivists hate that individual expression. They are only interested in the individual not for the expression of his own soul, but as a cog to fit into their great machine that is marching toward the worker’s paradise, or the Sharia state, or whatever the outcome of their reign of terror is called today. As such, jazz music, a unique product of the nation that has enabled a flowering of the individual spirit unparalleled in human history, is a rebuke to collectivism, and a defiant and joyful reassertion of the one thing that totalitarians fear most: the individual.
Now wait a minute, you will say: what about all those Muslim jazz musicians? There have certainly been a lot of them. The formidable drummer and bandleader Art Blakey was known to his friends as “Bu,” short for Abdullah ibn Buhaina, his Muslim name. Ahmad Jamal, Sahib Shihab, Idrees Suleiman, Yusef Lateef, Rashied Ali – the list goes on and on. The tenor and soprano saxophonist Pharoah Sanders actually titled his marvelous album Summun Bukmun Umyun after passages of the Qur’an that say that the unbelievers are “deaf, dumb and blind” (summun, bukmun, umyun, 2:18 and 2:171). The liner notes say that the album’s purpose is pure dawah (Islamic proselytizing): “This album is predicated on spiritual truths and to the future enlightenment of El-Kafirun or The Rejectors of Faith (non-believers).”
Yet those Muslims who have recently trashed music stores and brutalized musicians in Mali, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere would dispute the very idea that such music
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SNIP: Woah! Woah! Woah! *Needle scratches across record*
Hold the Vibraphone, Felatious Monk!
Why so cruel and unusual, Muhammad baby? Relax, Achmax!
Swig some of this brown plaid and pipe down cus you don’t know from nothin about music.
— I bet we can come up with some boss tunes both the Muzzies and Pinkos will dig.
You dig? *wink*
[Here's a few to get you rolling]
Hard Hearted Hamas
Jump Start My Prius
The Girl From Al Jazeera
Shake Your EBT Maker
Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Sheep
Mellow Yellowcake
The Long And Winding Rope
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Commie Chameleon
Dan Ryan Galt
February 25th, 2013
Back in the USSR…no wait, that’s a real song.
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Barack The Casbah
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Marrakesh Hack Press
BigFurHat
February 25th, 2013
Hamas Hit -
Goodbye Yellow School Bus
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Should I Stray Or Should I Goat
MaryfromMarin
February 25th, 2013
Perhaps they both hated it so much because it is good and pleasing to the Lord our God:
“O come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!..let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!” (Psalm 95: 1-2)
“I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.” (Psalm 104:33)
“…addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the LORD with all your heart…” (Eph. 5:19)
Pretty easy to see why they’d hate music.
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Some Qaeda Wonderful
Unneutral
February 25th, 2013
‘I’m humping a camel named Clyde’
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
I’ll bet muhammad sings every time he is fornicated by the devil.
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
“Piece Train holy ruhollah…”
Dan Ryan Galt
February 25th, 2013
Red Roses for a Blue State
She Wore Blue Burqua
Rudolf the Red Nosed Alcoholic Comrade
Stairway To World Caliphate
Lowell
February 25th, 2013
JAZZ is threatening? Gonna’ have to ponder on that a bit. It excites no sensibilities. It makes people close their eyes and loll their heads. Perhaps at best, some desultory finger snapping.
Those tyrants were afraid of rock. Of Led Zepplin. Of music that makes the heart hammer and gives you impetus to do extroverted acts.
Yeah baby, that’s the real danger to tyrants.
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
“We bomb Fallujah…she’s my baby…
We bomb Fallujah….don’t mean maybe…”
Unneutral
February 25th, 2013
‘If I could screw the world through the eyes of a child’
BigFurHat
February 25th, 2013
Hamas Top Ten Hit:
Put his head on my shoulder
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
“I’m in Mahmood for love…”
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Sharia The Land
BigFurHat
February 25th, 2013
Hamas Golden Oldie -
While My Scimitar Gently Sweeps
BigFurHat
February 25th, 2013
#1 Hamas Hit
Jew Lost That Living Feeling
bubba
February 25th, 2013
stairway to mecca
new kid on the chopping block
I want to hold your severed head
l. a. Infidel
F.D.R. in Hell
February 25th, 2013
BFH, it’s actually…
“Butcher Head On My Shoulder”
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
Born to be riled
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
“Rocket launchers in flight
Crescent moon delight…”
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
I Torch Myself
Jethro
February 25th, 2013
“allah make love into you”
- boys in men
sung to: “I’ll make love to you” -Boyz 2 men
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
Walk like an infliction
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blew
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
“Blow Susanna
Now don’t cry for dhimmi
“Cause I’m headed off for Baghdad
With a carcass on my knee”
Unneutral
February 25th, 2013
‘I explode to pieces’
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Leader Of Back Pack
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
I Get A Kick Out Of Ewe
Jethro
February 25th, 2013
I’ll fly apart
Jethro
February 25th, 2013
“Ayatollah” (My Sharona)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inQiIkz7J5Y
I can’t believe I forgot about this one…
Unneutral
February 25th, 2013
‘Make the infidel go away’
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
You Ain’t Seen Mutton Yet
Kairn
February 25th, 2013
I believe they hated music because song is a convenient avenue for people to make their feelings known about a person or thing. Songs are an important form of human expression for things we love as well as for expressing our opinions about things and people and actions we find disturbing.
We know that Mo hated poets first because poets were writing sarcastic verses about him. Those poems may even have been sung. It’s all about controlling the public narrative with guys like Mo, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, etc.
Obysmal and his miserable wife if given even more leeway to feeling more powerful and invincible against the tide of nattering nobodies of negativism (conservative US patriots), will also bring their boot down much more firmly against any public commentary that does not flatter and exalt them. Be that thru words, song, film, cartoons, etc.
Tyrants, as history has shown us over and over again have very, very thin skins layered over vicious and cunning interiors.
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
It’s my shahadah and I’ll fry if I want to, die if I want to, fry if I want to …
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
Ol’ muhammad had a pig, e-i-e-i-o,
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Pedo Goat Junction
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
Hello Mullah – Hello Fatwa
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
@Chalupa, lol, “here I am at Camp Guantanamo”
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Allah’s Young Dudes
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Born to Jihad
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Like a 72nd Virgin
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Imam I need you
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Getting touched the 72nd time
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Rocket Imam
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Allah want to do is have some bombs
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
We’re a Meccan Band
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Afternoon Delouse
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Big smelly taxi
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
@Unruly -
“You remember Achmed Farkid
Last I saw he…was water boarded…”
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
Flashback to “The Forgotten Rebels” song “I left my Heart in Iran”.
Here’s the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4JYwmjfx0
Lyrics:
So I see you want to start a World War.
Death comes in threes and it’s so fun to score.
That Ayatollah really must be a whore.
Filth eating camel sweat he’s a sickie moslem so hard to please.
His kind of thinking must show you his disease.
I left my heart, left my heart in Iran.
Bring back the Shah that’s where it began.
Should’ve dropped some bombs and watched how they ran.
I left my heart, left my heart in Iran.
Death is his only groupie.
Remember hiding in Paris?
Now can’t you see his only answer is there.
When he sees his country dying,
no one else in the world is crying
the only one humanitarian way.
That’s why I’m a mercenary.
I left my heart in Iran.
Bring back the Shah that’s where it began.
Should have dropped some bombs and watched how they ran.
I left my heart, left my heart in Iran.
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
You Give Jihad A Bad Name
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
I never promised you a Berchestgaden
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
99 Red Buffoons
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
“the head jihadi wants no sissies,
So we use our butt cracks to launch our missiles.”
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Lay down Sallid
RD in Texas
February 25th, 2013
Dirty deeds, done to sheep.
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
American Die – A Jihadi favorite folk song.
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Xerxes in the sky with diamonds
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
RD in Texas…here’s the video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd8hl_dirty-deeds-done-with-sheep-ac-dc_fun#.USwZU6XIuGk
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Allah long the prayer tower
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Cut me in the morning (Then just walk away)
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Unhappy Together
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
I Blow to Pieces
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
KABOOM There it is!
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Burka Betty by Ramadan
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Long Cool Woman in a Burka
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Kazakhstan Wood
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Killing Me Swiftly
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
These hooves were made for walking.
Groucho Marxist
February 25th, 2013
Mullahs of London
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
Dromedary Aire
Mary Jane Anklestraps
February 25th, 2013
I’ve been waiting for a little girl like you.
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
Help me make Bombs through the night
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
Goin’ Back to Cali(phate)
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
Who are Jew?
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
As Ears Blow By
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
Red Red Mind
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Can’t You Hear Me Ticking?
Unruly Refugee
February 25th, 2013
Just call me infidel of the morning, just cut my cheek before you cleave me.
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
Bibi and the Jets
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Where The Boys Are (better than Goys)
Moe Tom
February 25th, 2013
Music is a decadent Western phenomenon. Duh?
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Sold your Boy
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
My Goy Friend’s Back
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Crying in the Shrapnel
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Send In the Drones
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Hooked on a Yearling
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Have You Never Been (with) Fellow?
Chalupa
February 25th, 2013
She Shed She Shed
“And you’re making me feel like I never goat porned”
Brian in BC
February 25th, 2013
Leaving on a Jet Plane (Baby I hate to Blow!)
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
If I Knew You Were Comin’, I’d Have Baked a Kike
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
All In All, It’s Just Another Brick in the Face
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
It’s Still Lock and Load to Me
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Totally Clips Out His Heart
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
I Just Called To Say I Kill You
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
We Un-Built This City
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Rolling Back the Years
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
All My Ex’s Live in Mecca
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
I Was Muslim When Muslim Wasn’t Cool
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
I’d Love To Lay Ewe Down
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight
Moxie Man
February 25th, 2013
To All The Girls I’ve Honor-Killed Before
Callmelennie
February 25th, 2013
Little late to the party
Wake Up, Little Sunni (wake up)
Good Golly, It’s Ali
Runaround Jew
Great Balls on Fire! (Panty Bomber Song)
Callmelennie
February 25th, 2013
Muslim folk classic
If I had a dagger
I’d blood let in the morning
I’d blood let in the evening
All over this clan
Callmelennie
February 25th, 2013
A couple of Country and Middle Eastern classics
You’ve Been Taqiyyah in Your Sleep
(Proud To Be a) Cave Fighter’s Daughter
AbigailAdams
February 25th, 2013
You guys are hot tonight!
Callmelennie
February 26th, 2013
From legendary Wahhabi guitarist Djinni Hendrix
Let Me Cast You in The Fire
Turban Rage
Allah’s on the Watchtower
Hajj Town Traffic
Are You Islamicized
Rasool’s Chile
Sa’udi Lady
Callmelennie
February 26th, 2013
The Zionist Sleeps Tonight