Aerosmith Concert Canceled, Bieber Attacked

Just another day in Dar al Islam. via Aerosmith Cancels Indonesia Concert Over Security Fears | Billboard.

An Aerosmith concert promoter says the band has canceled next week’s show in Indonesia over security concerns, one day after news surfaced about an alleged bomb plot at the Myanmar Embassy.

Helmi Sugara, event organizer spokesman, said Sunday that the legendary American rockers were scheduled to perform May 11 before a nearly sold-out crowd of 15,000 in the capital, Jakarta.

He said the band canceled Saturday, a day after Indonesia announced it had arrested two suspected militants with bombs.

Meanwhile, all Justin Bieber’s pandering to Muslims didn’t prevent a Muslim from jumping on stage and attacking him in Dubai:

A crazed fan stormed onstage and grabbed singer Justin Bieber from behind on Sunday in Dubai during the middle of a piano performance.

The 19-year-old Canadian pop star was performing one of his last songs, Believe, when a youth in a white shirt and jeans blindsided the unsuspecting singer.

Bieber managed to free himself and dashed to the side of the stage.

Bieber also performed on Saturday in Dubai as part of his international Believe Tour and pulled a song out of respect for the country’s Muslim culture.

Bieber skipped the song One Less Lonely Girl because the state religion of Islam frowns upon men touching women who are not their relatives.

Frowns upon? They kill.

The singer typically recruits a young female fan to join him during the song to flirt with onstage.

The respectful move followed another thoughtful incident on his international Believe Tour that occurred recently in Turkey.

The Boyfriend singer paused his show multiple times on Thursday to allow fans to step away for the Muslim call to prayer.

A show in Oman reportedly was cancelled because the nation deemed his act ‘too sexy.’

RIP: Donald Byrd – Love Has Come Around

Legendary Jazz Musician Donald Byrd Dies at 80

Byrd was born in Detroit in 1932, and joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1956, performing on over 50 recordings by the likes of John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Kenny Burrell, Jackie McLean and Hank Mobley, before leading his own group in 1958.

Perhaps best known for his Mizell Brothers-produced 1973 LP Black Byrd, which at one point was Blue Note’s highest-selling LP of all time, Byrd went on to score major hits with his R&B fusion group the Blackbyrds, including dance-floor favorite “Rock Creek Park” and “Walking in Rhythm.”

Byrd’s work spanned decades of jazz and funk, from bebop and soul to R&B, inspiring acid jazz and fusion, always progressive, always testing his limits.

When his output began to wind down, Byrd’s music became even more relevant: He became an essential part of hip-hop’s canon, sampled by everybody from De La Soul, Ice Cube and Tupac to house legend Armand Van Helden, and his sphere of influence became vaster still.

 

Let’s Make Christmas Mean Something This Year (video)

Merry Christmas!

R&B singer Chris Brown’s jihadi Halloween

If Obama had a son? via Chris Brown dressed as Taliban for Halloween – latimes.com.

Did Chris Brown Google “people with similar popularity ratings to Chris Brown” for Halloween costume ideas last night? That’s the only explanation for why America’s most unsavory R&B singer decided to dress up as a Taliban fighter for Rihanna’s Halloween party at Greystone Manor in West Hollywood.

Brown, most recently under fire for getting a tattoo that eerily resembled the bloodied face of onetime girlfriend Rihanna, donned a full headscarf, robe, fake beard and bullet chain with a crew of similarly attired peers for the party.

To announce one charming group photo of his posse holding fake guns aloft in the parking lot, he tweeted, “Ain’t nobody [messing] wit my clique!!!!”

It’s hard to muster much fresh outrage at new stories of Chris Brown doing something to imply violence and jaw-dropping misogyny. But he sure is making a spirited go at it.

Chris Brown jihadi wannabe on Halloween 2012. (TMZ / Twitter)

He’s got the wife beating part down.

Saturday Night Musical Interlude: “We ain’t got no hope”

The actual title of this Eddie Kendricks classic is “Going Up in Smoke.”

…going up in smoke
going up in smoke
we ain`t got no hope
cuz we`re going up in smoke…

Could this be the unofficial theme song for the 2012 DNC? Full lyrics would surely outrage them!

“Religion of Peace” Threatens Violence, Cancels @ladygaga Concert (updated)

Update 2: Lady Gaga was willing to submit to sharia, but the threat of violence from “Religion of Peacers” was still too much

Peaceful “Asians”

Pop diva Lady Gaga on Sunday cancelled her Indonesian concert with promoters saying the security threat was too serious after Islamic hardliners promised “chaos” if she entered the Muslim nation.

Earlier this month Jakarta police refused approval for the show after the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) threatened violence if Lady Gaga performed, calling her a “devil’s messenger” who wears only a “bra and panties”.

“Nowhere else in Indonesia can accommodate that many people”, he said, insisting that the 26-year-old singer was “prepared to adapt to Asian culture”.

“Lady Gaga fans, stop complaining. Repent and stop worshipping the devil. Do you want your lives taken away by God as infidels?”

Update: Tiny minorty of extremists rule the masses

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Lady Gaga will have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia following protests by Islamic hard-liners and conservative lawmakers, who said her sexy clothes and dance moves will corrupt young people.

National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar, responding to the pressure, said Tuesday that the permit for her June 3 “Born This Way Ball” concert had been denied.

Indonesia, a nation of 240 million people, has more Muslims than any other. Although it is secular and has a long history of religious tolerance, a small extremist fringe has become more vocal in recent years.

Hard-liners have loudly criticized Lady Gaga, saying the suggestive nature of her show threatened to undermine the country’s moral fiber. Some threatened to use physical force to prevent her from stepping off the plane.

Lawmakers and religious leaders, too, have spoken out against her.

“I’m very disappointed,” said Mariska Renata, who had tickets to the Jakarta show.

She said by bowing to the wishes of “troublemakers,” authorities only give them more power. “We are mature enough to be able to separate our own moral values from arts and culture,” Renata said.

That they do.

Moderate, modern Muslim Indonesia. via Lady Gaga’s Indonesia Concert Should Be Canceled: Jakarta Police | The Jakarta Globe. h/t Bukan

Pop superstar Lady Gaga’s upcoming Jakarta concert should be canceled the Jakarta Police said on Sunday, citing a flurry of objections from Indonesia’s Islamic organizations ranging from issues with the US pop star’s provocative outfits to allegations of devil worship.

Lady Gaga’s sold-out Jakarta concert is scheduled for June 3, but police have yet to decide whether Indonesia’s 40,000 ticket-holders will be able to see Lady Gaga perform. The planned concert has attracted the ire of hard-line Islamists the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), who called Lady Gaga to the devil during rallies and warned that her concert will degrade the nation’s sense of morality.

The Jakarta Police recommended that the concert be canceled. But, in the end, the decision is out of their hands.

“The concert permit is issued by the National Police,” Jakarta Police spokesman Rikwanto said, “but the Jakarta Police doesn’t recommend the concert be held.”

The National Police are still undecided whether to allow Lady Gaga to perform in Jakarta.

“We’re still discussing it,” National Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told Beritasatu.com. “The concert is slated for June, so we haven’t made a decision. We’ll announce whether or not we’ll issue a permit later.”

The Muslim Defenders Team urged the police to cancel the concert to prevent possible conflicts between Islamists and Lady Gaga fans.

“We ask the National Police to take into consideration the public’s opposition to Lady Gaga’s concert,” said M. Mahendradatta, board chairman for the Muslim Defenders Team — an organization known for representing hard-line Islamists and alleged terrorists.

What the West can look forward to as Muslim populations grow.

Also remember Obama is a self-proclaimed “Jakarta street kid” who studied the Koran in Indonesia.

Happy Mother’s Day (video)

Sour note: That’s a Kenny Gamble (& Huff) production…before he converted and began establishing a Muslim enclave in Philadelphia.

RIP MCA: Sabotage (video)

RIP Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, 47 years young.

“Listen all of ya’ll it’s a sabotage…”

Malaysian newspaper suspends editors over Erykah Badu ‘Allah’ pics

via Malaysian daily suspends editors over Erykah Badu ‘Allah’ pics | Asian Correspondent.

Two editors of a prominent Malaysian English-language newspaper were suspended for approving a photo of American singer Erykah Badu with ‘Allah’ tattoos that was published on the paper.

The Star confirmed that it had suspended the two editors – senior editor Lim Cheng Hoe and deputy editor Daryl Goh – “with immediate effect and indefinitely” after the photo was criticized for touching ‘Muslim sensitivities’.  The Home Ministry subsequently canceled Badu’s concert in Malaysia.

The English daily also announced that two associate editors, Rozaid Abdul Rahman and Shaf A. Dadameah, have assumed extra duties of overseeing and guiding the newspaper on issues pertaining to Muslim sensitivities.

According to Malaysian Insider, three top editors from The Star were hauled up by the Home Ministry on Monday, after a photo of Badu with two tattoos with the Arabic word for ‘Allah’ appeared on the paper’s entertainment section. The image was supplied by Badu’s official record label, Universal Music, in the run-up to the concert.

Badu’s concert was banned after a government committee decided that she had ‘offended religious sensitivities’ of Muslims by posing with the tattoos. Her concert was supposed to be held on Wednesday.

Badu, who was already in Malaysia when the ban occurred, held a press conference Wednesday. The singer explained that the body art was inspired by a character called “The Painted Lady” from a movie called The Holy Mountain that was directed by her favorite film maker Alejandro Jodorowsky. “I think the reason he (the director) did this was to show that we are all one and there is only one God and one truth and one religion,” she said here.

In the past, several international musicians performing in the country – such as Beyonce Knowles, Gwen Stefani and Mariah Carey – have been asked to cover up if they wanted to perform.

Badu’s photo on The Star has created a brouhaha among several conservative Muslim and political groups that have since filed police reports and demanded that the government to revoke the paper’s license over the issue.

Despite an apology by The Star that was published on Wednesday, the paper was given a show-cause letter by the Home Ministry. The show-cause letter has been criticised by the Centre for Independent Journalism Malaysia that viewed the Home Ministry’s intervention as “unnecessary and detrimental to media freedom”.

Didn’t Badu tweet a while back that her father taught her about jihad?

Malaysia bans Erykah Badu show over Allah tattoos, demand newspaper suspension

Will she submit and cover up?

Muslim-majority Malaysia has banned a planned concert by Erykah Badu after a photograph appeared showing the Grammy-winning singer with the Arabic word for Allah written on her body.

The American R&B singer was scheduled to perform today in Kuala Lumpur, but some Muslim groups said Badu was an unsuitable role model for young Malaysians after seeing a publicity photo of her with what appeared to be temporary tattoos of the word Allah on her bare shoulders.

A government committee that includes police and Islamic policy officials decided to forbid Badu’s show because the body art was “an insult to Islam and a very serious offence”, Information Minister Rais Yatim said in a statement on Tuesday.

The photo of Badu had “triggered public criticism that could jeopardise national security and cause a negative impact to the government’s image”, the statement added.

The 41-year-old, Dallas-born singer had already arrived in Malaysia. She can stay as a tourist but will not be allowed to perform, an Information Ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to make public statements.

Razman Razali, managing director of the show’s Malaysian organiser, Pineapple Concerts, said his company hopes the ban will be reversed.

Badu is “worried and dismayed”, Razman said. She was slated to perform in an auditorium that can hold about 3000 spectators.

It was the first concert by a Western performer to be banned in Malaysia in recent years. Several other stars, including Gwen Stefani and Avril Lavigne, were told to dress modestly while performing.

The photograph of Badu, which also appears on her official fan website, attracted attention after Malaysia’s most widely read English-language daily, The Star, published it Monday.

Yesterday, the newspaper apologised to Muslims for what it called an “oversight”, saying it deeply regretted any offence sparked by the photo, which was “inadvertently published”. The Home Ministry summoned The Star’s editors to explain the photograph, which caused some Muslim activists to demand the newspaper’s suspension.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/malaysia-bans-erykah-badu-show-over-tattoo-20120228-1u0rn.html#ixzz1nglZEHOD

Colorado public school student quits choir over song worshipping Allah

Good for him. h/t Atlas Shrugs

James Harper, a Grand Junction High School [Colorado] senior and Christian active in his local church, was part of the all volunteer high school choir until his instructor Marcial Wieland made plans to sing “Zikr” which has lyrics that translate from the original Urdu to, “There is no truth except Allah” and “Allah is the only eternal and immortal,” according to Fox News. The student choir sings the song in the original Urdu.

Harper told KREX in Grand Junction:

I don’t want to come across as a bigot or a racist, but I really don’t feel it is appropriate for students in a public high school to be singing an Islamic worship song. This is worshipping another God, and even worshipping another prophet – I think there would be a lot of outrage if we made a Muslim choir say Jesus Christ is the only truth.

Yeah, outrage in the form of protests, threats, and lawsuits from Hamas-linked CAIR and the ACLU. Followed by sensitivity training / dawah.

However, district officials defended the teacher’s song choice. Wieland, who understood there could be objections to the song was open with the parents and students when making the selection telling them that students do not have to participate in the voluntary choir if they object, according to CBS4. Wieland also passed around an English translation of the lyrics and encouraged them to view the YouTube video below which features the music, written by Muslim composer A.R. Rahman.

Sound like the dawah has already begun.

Update: Other reports state he Quit School After Death Threats. Now who would threaten to kill a non-Muslim for not singing that “there is no truth except Allah”?