Jermhi and (MGSTRZ) GOHAN Fans Can Vote For A Song and Music Video.« Feb Search For Blogs Example: Jaejoong Search for: HOTTEST CLICKS So there is nothing to worry about,” he told Qantara. “We do, after all, live in a country where there are rules and procedures for such predicaments. Nevertheless, Najafi told Qantara he has taken “precautionary measures.” “This is done by a religious group in our society.”
“This fatwa does not represent the government of Iran,” Zarei is quoted as saying. In a blog post on Najafi, The Guardian in the UK calls Najafi “the Salman Rushdie of music,” a reference to the author of “The Satanic Verses,” who was given a religious death sentence by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 after Khomeini said Rushie’s book was blasphemous.īut writing in the state-run newspaper Kayhan, columnist Sadollah Zarei says Najafi’s case is different from Rushdie’s, according to a New York Times report. The money is being put up by “a philanthropist” in a Persian Gulf state, the website says. The Iranian website Shia-Online.ir is offering $100,000 to anyone who kills Najafi. Najafis songs cover a range of themes, such as theocracy, poverty, sexism, censorship, child labour, execution and. He began his music career in Iran before emigrating to Germany in 2005. “According to article 513 of Islam’s penal code: Anyone who insults the sanctity of Islam, anyone of the great prophets, the Imams, and Sadigheh Tahereh (the prophet’s daughter) should be executed,” the post says. Shahin Najafi (Persian: ) (born in 1980 in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran) is an Iranian musician, poet and singer currently residing in Germany. “If the song contains any insults or indecency towards Imam Naghi, then it is blasphemy, and God knows what to do,” Golpayegani, a 92-year-old Iranian cleric, is quoted as saying by Qantara.Ī post on the blog entegham says Najafi should be sentenced to death. Being an apostate, or someone who forsakes Islam, is punishable by death under Iranian law. Golpayegani is a grand ayatollah, which means the highest- ranking authority in Shiite Islam after prophets and imams. “Following the affront by rap singer Shahin Najafi against Imam Hadi (7th Imam of Shias) in a song called ‘Naghi’, his apostasy sentence has been issued by Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani,” Iran’s official Fars News Agency said in a website posting in Farsi. Religious figures in Iran see it differently. It seems as though people are just concentrating on the word ‘imam,’ ” Najafi is quoted as saying. “For me it is more of an excuse to talk about completely different things. “The story with ‘Naghi’ was just a pretext,” Najafi said in an interview with Qantara, which the German Foreign Office funds to promote dialogue with the Islamic world. Shahin Najafi, who sings in Farsi and lives in Germany told the German website Qantara that the song “Naghi” is not about a religious figure but about the state of society in Iran. Media Credit: Photo (CNN) (my.) / Video (YouTube gijgah) (BiganeganTV)Īn Iranian rapper is facing death threats and has a $100,000 bounty on his head for a song that some say insults an Islamic Shiite imam.
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