{"id":699945,"date":"2021-08-30T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=699945"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:06:03","slug":"taliban-executes-afghan-folk-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-executes-afghan-folk-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Executes Afghan Folk Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-executes-afghan-folk-singer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=699945&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-30-at-1.29.48-PM_736x514.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Taliban executed an Afghan folk singer days after its spokesman warned inhabitants &#8220;music is forbidden in Islam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The militant group killed Fawad Andarabi on Friday at his family&#8217;s farm about 60 miles north of Kabul, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-kabul-us-taliban-9da4da11b5c8d00445b57aee297bd270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the Associated Press. Members of the Taliban had visited the singer days before to search his home. Andarabi&#8217;s son said his father played a bowed lute called a ghaychak and sang traditional songs about Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people,&#8221; Andarabi&#8217;s son said. &#8220;They shot him in the head on the farm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s former interior minister Masoud Andarabi tweeted a video on Saturday of Fawad performing, saying the Taliban &#8220;brutally killed&#8221; the folk singer, &#8220;who simply was bringing joy to this valley and its people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.700288184438\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taliban\u2019s brutality continues in Andarab. Today they brutally killed folkloric singer, Fawad Andarabi who simply was brining joy to this valley and its people. As he sang here &#8220;our beautiful valley\u2026.land of our forefathers\u2026&#8221; will not submit to Taliban\u2019s brutality. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Jc1DnpqDH\">pic.twitter.com\/3Jc1DnpqDH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Masoud Andarabi (@andarabi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andarabi\/status\/1431649980394127369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The singer&#8217;s death comes days after a Taliban spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/25\/world\/asia\/taliban-spokesman-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em> music will no longer be allowed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Music is forbidden in Islam,&#8221; Zabihullah Mujahid said at a Wednesday briefing in the Ministry of Information and Culture in Kabul. &#8220;But we&#8217;re hoping that we can persuade people not to do such things, instead of pressuring them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban similarly banned music during its harsh regime in the nation from 1996 to 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Mujahid told the Associated Press the Taliban would investigate the shooting of Andarabi but provided no further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban executed an Afghan folk singer days after its spokesman warned inhabitants &#8220;music is forbidden in Islam.&#8221; The militant group killed Fawad Andarabi on Friday at his family&#8217;s farm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}