Somali fundies ban music from radio

[Rogue 9]

Why is this even surprising? The article even mentions that it's reminiscent of the Taliban. If you let RELIGIOUS hard-liners run amok, this is what you get.

Fix'd that for you.

Not quite accurate; not all religions have hard-liners that hate music.

Anyway, got to love that anarchy. Wonder what all the anarchocapitalists who used to rave about how great Somalia was without a government will make of this.

[wautd]

You can always broadcast radiowaves from the neighboring countries, or do it with some aircraft that regularly patrols the area, like what the USA did with Cuba. But that'd just make the Somalitaliban ban all forms of radios or something.

According to the article, music can still be heared at the one the "government" controls and another one that is funded by the United Nations. Offcourse, I wouldn't turn the music too loud because something tells me that listening to music would be just as bad as playing music for these cunts.

I wonder if Pratchett got inspiration from the taliban when he tought of Nugganites.

[Mayabird]

You know, as if Somalia couldn't get worse as the butt of all jokes and as goddamn libertopia realized, it turns into fucking Talibaniland. Goddamn. Why the fuck did those unpatriotic anti-American democrat hippie liberal Ethiopian pussies have to cut and run instead of staying the course and SURGING into Somalia for freedom, truth, and Ethiopia Pie?

Because Somalia sucked so much that Ethiopia finally couldn't stand it and left in disgust. Yes, that's how hard that place sucks, that a country that is practically synonymous with "third world shithole" considers Somalia a worthless shithole that's not worth their time. If they make too much trouble for them, Ethiopia can stomp everybody flat again in a few days and then go back home and repeat every few years until either someone learns their lesson or everybody dies.

[Vehrec]

Anywhere else in the world, I'd suggest floating radio transmitters off the coast, but here the pirate radio stations would get attacked by the real pirates. So... no good, then. Darn.

No, no! We can make this work, we just need to borrow something armed. Arm your pirate radio station, yeah that's how you do it! A couple 5-inch guns would be totally awesome overkill. We can paint the ship in riotous colors so they know we're a rock station and leave us alone anyways. Pirates like rock music, right?

[Spekio]

Why is this even surprising? The article even mentions that it's reminiscent of the Taliban. If you let RELIGIOUS hard-liners run amok, this is what you get.

Fix'd that for you.

Not quite accurate; not all religions have hard-liners that hate music.

All religions, one way or the other, wan't to control all the information, be it educational or entertainment, that their "flock" receive.