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Iran: Artist gets five year jail term for musical Koran<\/a><\/p>\n

An Iranian artist has been sentenced to five years in prison for having put the Koran to music. According to ‘Fardanews’, the Iranian authorities considered the move “offensive to Islamic morality”.<\/p>\n

Mohsen Namju is accused of having ridiculed the Koran, “reciting it in a western and anti-Islamic style”.<\/p>\n

One of the major experts on recitation of the the Koran in Iran, Abbas Salimi, reported the musician to the Islamic court in Tehran.<\/p>\n

The court found the artist guilty for having breached “Islamic morality”.<\/p>\n

After the sentence, Abbas Salimi was reportedly “very satisfied” and underlined the importance of “defending the sacredness of god’s book”.<\/p>\n

“No-one should be able to ridicule it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Under Islamic law, music is allowed if it does not result in provoking the faithful.<\/p>\n

Combining the recitation of the Koran and popular songs, like the Iranian artist, is not tolerated under Islamic Sharia law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And you thought your local church was musically conservative. Along these lines: is there any equivalent to jazz in Islam?<\/p>\n

Just kidding.<\/p>\n

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