There's more about the (now #1 hit) song from Pakistan, "Yeh Hum Naheen." (Urdu for "This is Not Us.") at "Reporter's Notebook: A Different Kind of Terror Tune" (August 08, 2007, By Greg Palkot).
As the article says, the lyrics are the best way to describe the song: "This story that is being spread in our names is a lie. - The name by which you know us we are not."
The sons of a TV and media producer told their father that they were had had enough of fanatic Muslims in Britain who thought they were too secular. And they were "sick of seeing terrorists cloak their activity in religion."
I am very glad to see not only that this small group of Muslims decided to take a bold step and renounce the fanatics around them, but that the song has become so wildly popular in Pakistan, and now around the world.
I'd like to think that this is what happens when people try to communicate with ideas instead of car bombs.
Previous post on this topic: Moderate Muslim Video from Pakistan: Very Good News
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Moderate Muslim Video from Pakistan: Very Good News
There's a new video out from the Islamic world, and it isn't the sort of death-to-America stuff we've been hearing all these years. The headline is "Pakistani Pop Stars Team Up" on FoxNews.com - "Moderate Muslims in Pakistan use music to take a public stand against extreme Muslim militants."
[Note: The FoxNews.com video was replaced, as of 11:20 pm central time USA, at the latest, with more current content. Yeh Hum Naheen Fan Center now seems to be the best page for information. Includes, as of 11:30 pm central time USA, two videos: a Reuters News and a Nova TV Interview. 'Norski']
Yeh Hum Naheen is the title of the song, distributed by Fnik Music. The title, translated, is "This Is Not Us." The talent is Haroon, Ali Haider, Ali Zafar, Strings, Shufqat Amanat Ali and Hadiqa Kiani. Waseem Mahmood is the video's director.
These kids have guts.
Good for them. This has the potential to reach people in a way that written words and speeches can't. "Let me write the songs of a nation; I don't care who writes its laws," has more than a grain of truth in it (Andrew Fletcher).
There's more about the video at Pakistani pop group releases peace song (Political Gateway) and TODAY'S EDITORIAL: This Is Not Us 13 Jul 2007, 0003 hrs IST (Muslims for America).
Related posts, on Islam, Christianity, Religion, Culture and the War on Terror.
[Note: The FoxNews.com video was replaced, as of 11:20 pm central time USA, at the latest, with more current content. Yeh Hum Naheen Fan Center now seems to be the best page for information. Includes, as of 11:30 pm central time USA, two videos: a Reuters News and a Nova TV Interview. 'Norski']
Yeh Hum Naheen is the title of the song, distributed by Fnik Music. The title, translated, is "This Is Not Us." The talent is Haroon, Ali Haider, Ali Zafar, Strings, Shufqat Amanat Ali and Hadiqa Kiani. Waseem Mahmood is the video's director.
These kids have guts.
Good for them. This has the potential to reach people in a way that written words and speeches can't. "Let me write the songs of a nation; I don't care who writes its laws," has more than a grain of truth in it (Andrew Fletcher).
There's more about the video at Pakistani pop group releases peace song (Political Gateway) and TODAY'S EDITORIAL: This Is Not Us 13 Jul 2007, 0003 hrs IST (Muslims for America).
Related posts, on Islam, Christianity, Religion, Culture and the War on Terror.
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