Female Singer airs on TV in Afghanistan

[vass0922]

While here in the states its certainly no big deal.. Afghans have not seen this event in over a decade.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108325,00.html

Parwais Nasari, a 25-year-old cooking potato waffles at a Kabul market stall, said he was sipping green tea after dinner with his family when Salma appeared, singing a Pashto (search)-language ode to the beauty of the Afghan mountains.

"We sprang up, gathered around the screen and turned up the volume," he said. "We were very happy. I hadn't seen anything like it since communist days."

Pretty cool IMO!


OH but of course we can't have that crap
No stinking women on tv

But one of Afghanistan's deputy supreme court justices was not amused.

"This mistake should not be repeated," Fazel Ahmed Manawi told The Associated Press. "In the constitution there is an article that says things that go against Islam are not allowed."

Thats one thing I really do disagree with in Islam is their general view towards women
(not everybody, but the popular view in that region)

Pretty sad when the communists gave you more rights than another group (taliban)

[osprey4]

Does Islam not allow women to sing? Or is it just women singing on TV?

[muno]

I bet there's a lot going on that is against islam.

And communists aren't bad. There's a lot of good in communism, as there is in democracy.