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Cowperson · 12-20-2005, 08:47 AM

Today, though, the sounds of hip-hop can be heard blaring from car radios in Tehran's streets, and Eric Clapton's "Rush" and the Eagles' "Hotel California" regularly accompany Iranian broadcasts.

No more — the official IRAN Persian daily reported Monday that Ahmadinejad, as head of the Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, ordered the enactment of an October ruling by the council to ban all Western music, including classical music, on state broadcast outlets.

Also . . . .

. . . . women are prohibited from singing in public, except to a segregated female-only audience. Hard-liners were afraid the voice of a woman soloist might arouse impure thoughts in men. Women are allowed to sing as part of a chorus.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...n1139859.shtml

Cowperson

12-20-2005, 08:47 AM	#1
Cowperson CP Pontiff Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: A pasture out by Millarville Exp:	Iran bans western music Today, though, the sounds of hip-hop can be heard blaring from car radios in Tehran's streets, and Eric Clapton's "Rush" and the Eagles' "Hotel California" regularly accompany Iranian broadcasts. No more — the official IRAN Persian daily reported Monday that Ahmadinejad, as head of the Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, ordered the enactment of an October ruling by the council to ban all Western music, including classical music, on state broadcast outlets. Also . . . . . . . . women are prohibited from singing in public, except to a segregated female-only audience. Hard-liners were afraid the voice of a woman soloist might arouse impure thoughts in men. Women are allowed to sing as part of a chorus. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...n1139859.shtml Cowperson __________________ Dear Lord, help me to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. - Anonymous