Another shocking news comes from Afghanistan and concerns the execution by the Taliban of a popular singer a few days after the announcement that “music is forbidden in Islam.”
Fawad Andarabi’s family told the Associated Press that the singer was shot last Friday when the Taliban returned home after they had searched for him and even drank tea with him.
“He was shot in the head on the farm,” Jawad’s son said of the execution.
“He was innocent, a singer who did all he could to entertain people,” he said.
The representative of Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahi, told the AP that the incident would be investigated and that he had no other evidence of the killing that took place about 60 miles north of Kabul.
A few days earlier, Mujahid had told the New York Times that music was now illegal, as it was when the Taliban were in power from 1996 to 2001.
“Music is forbidden in Islam,” he said, adding: “We hope to persuade people not to do such things, instead of pressuring them.”
Former Afghan Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi shared pictures of the singer and commented that he was “brutally murdered” simply because he “brought joy to his people”.
Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard condemned the horrific development, noting: “There is growing evidence that the 2021 Taliban are the same intolerant, violent, oppressive Taliban of 2001. Nothing has changed.”
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