{"id":38511,"date":"2019-06-22T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38511"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:34:50","slug":"qotd-militant-islam-and-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/06\/22\/qotd-militant-islam-and-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Militant Islam and the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>What I&#8217;ve learned since 9\/11 is that the small pleasures \u2014 music, theatre, film \u2014 have to be earned. In the Muslim world, there is no music. In Libya they destroyed all the musical instruments \u2014 music was considered an abomination. When the demography changes, there will be no concert halls. Artists who take a multicultural view should be aware of this. Count the number of covered women in London&#8217;s West End. In Birmingham, where I went to high school, you have a provincial symphony orchestra in a Muslim city \u2014 I&#8217;m not sure it will survive. <em>All<\/em> art, all popular culture, is endangered by Islam, because there&#8217;s no room for it. It&#8217;s considered libertinism. And I&#8217;m not even talking about Miley Cyrus twerking at the music awards. What turned Sayyid Qutb against the morality of the West is that he attended a church dance in Greeley, Colorado, which was a dry town in 1948, and he heard the song &#8220;Baby, It&#8217;s Cold Outside&#8221;. He thought it was evil. And now things are getting a lot worse. Ugly things are happening.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, interviewed by John Bloom, <a href=\"https:\/\/quadrant.org.au\/magazine\/2017\/05\/mark-steyn-cole-porter-freedom-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mark Steyn, Cole Porter and Free Speech&#8221;, <em>Quadrant<\/em><\/a>, 2017-05-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;ve learned since 9\/11 is that the small pleasures \u2014 music, theatre, film \u2014 have to be earned. In the Muslim world, there is no music. In Libya they destroyed all the musical instruments \u2014 music was considered an abomination. When the demography changes, there will be no concert halls. Artists who take a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,41,11],"tags":[102,262,319,47,687,200],"class_list":["post-38511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-art","tag-culture","tag-demographics","tag-islam","tag-libya","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49109,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38511\/revisions\/49109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}