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Written by Keiju Motegi
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 |
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For me, since I do not belong to any particular religion, it is an interesting experience to talk about religion with people who strictly believe in monotheism. In Afghanistan, I was talking about religions with a man at a hotel when he said that I would go to hell because I do not pray to Allah. Yet, another time in the same hotel, some people who were worried about me being killed by the Taliban taught me an important sentence from the Koran, saying it might help me if I was caught by the Taliban. Then they added that I should grow a beard to disguise myself as a Muslim.
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Written by Mark V. Campbell
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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Music moves. Not just at 33 and 1/3s revolutions per minute. Music travels just like diasporic populations, at times authorized by record labels and at other times innovatively mixed by DJs on mixtapes. Like the unwanted baggage of sorrow, or the feelings of loss and exile, music travels from origin or "home" to the metropole.
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I had an interesting weekend. Someone told me that my thoughts and values didn't reflect my cultural heritage (being a Bohra Muslim), that I was basically living a lie, or to put it plainly, that...