"The people of Afghanistan have been denied artistic freedom… The burning of musical instruments in Herat is just a small example of the cultural genocide that is taking place in Afghanistan under the leadership of the Taliban,"
Ahmad Sarmast,
Afghanistan National Institute of Music.
In the U.K., Newsnight reported how the Taliban burned instruments on a bonfire in Afghanistan, claiming music 'causes moral corruption'.
They finished the programme with a performance by Durri Zahir, a British Afghan woman playing traditional Afghan music on a traditional Afghan instrument.
If you could take everything the Taliban want to destroy and broadcast it on an international news programme, it would be this.
It was a very British Fuck You.
https://headtopics.com/uk/the-taliban-has-taken-aim-at-instruments-after-beauty-salons-41729833
It's been a long time since the BBC did anything to make me feel proud to be British, but watching the British Afghan female musician Durri Zahir perform in response to the Taliban's burning of musical instruments in Afghanistan did that last night. Watch the video in the link below.
#Afghanistan
#LetAfghanWomenPlay
https://headtopics.com/uk/the-taliban-has-taken-aim-at-instruments-after-beauty-salons-41729833
It's hard to imagine just how terrible life under the Taliban is in Afghanistan right now.
In Iran they say-
'Woman, Life, Freedom.'
In Afghanistan they say-
'Work, Food, Freedom'
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