Musikkvideo: islams svarte skyer

Roy Harper er en artist som er godt kjent rundt om i verden, blant annet sang han for Pink Floyd på sangen “Have a sigar”. Led Zeppelin dedikerte en sang til Harper ved navn: “Hats off to Roy Harper”.

I 1988 utga forfatteren Salman Rushdie novellen The Satanic Verses som var en historie delvis basert på muhammeds liv. Da gikk muhammedanere over hele verden beserk (blant annet opptøyer), de mente boken var blasfemisk og islamske ledere utstedte en fathwa som ba om at alle gode muslimer burde forsøke å drepe Rushdie eller si hvor han var slik at de islamske lederne kunne sende ut sine leiemordere. De islamske lederne sa også at andre som bidro til utgivelse av novellen burde dø.

Følgende av de islamske protestene var at Rushdie måtte leve i skjul under tung politibeskyttelse, flere utgivere og oversettere av novellen ble drept og forsøkt skadet (den japanske oversetteren ble stukket ned og drept i 1991, den italienske oversetteren ble stukket ned men overlevde, den norske forlagsdirektøren William Nygaard ble skutt (overlevde), i et attentatforsøk mot den tyrkiske oversetteren ble 37 mennesker drept).

Muhammedanernes voldelige reaksjon på utgivelsen av de sataniske vers fikk det til å koke over for Roy Harper, og sangen “the black cloud of islam” ble resultatet:

Harper skriver dette om sangen:

“Re-the black cloud of islam.. a song of mine written in 1989….

I let my guard slip. I knew that I’d let it slip. I wanted it to slip. I was absolutely sick of being politically correct. I am not politically correct, I never have been.. and I never hope to be. I’d been navigating through an obstacle course for thirty years. My guard slipped.. and I needed it to. I was livid. I was absolutely overcome by feelings of despair. My worst fears were coming true. Religion was gaining ground. The one collective trait among humans that I’d long held at arms length, with the deepest possible suspicion, superstition; was outrunning anything that I could personally throw into its warped path.

Religion, my first and only enemy, was about to storm the world. About to take over whole swathes of fragile humanity. Again. I absolutely detested the thought. I wanted to die on the spot. All of my life’s work was in tatters. I knew that I would never see the end of it in my own lifetime. The great validation of the far-fetched hypothetical. I knew that every sportsman or woman who charged onto the field of competition whilst crossing themselves in the christian manner added to mass acceptance of unfeasible belief. I was overcome with anger…. and I was determined to let it show. It’s still as ripe in me today as it was in 1990. I would still do the same thing. I may even take it further. That religion could come to dominate our lifestyles after we’d given so much of our thinking lives to its ultimate unravelling was seriously depressing for me.

Islam doesn’t yet have a modern interpretation. A real Martin Luther or a Martin Luther King. At least, not one the west would immediately recognise. You could say that the ‘modernisers’ are Bin Laden and Al Zaquawi, but they both want to step back into the dark ages. Forward isn’t in the ‘al Qaeda’ handbook. Most of the Arab states are generally fifteenth century in their disposition. They’re now scrambling, but are still virtually tribal. Their leaders had probably hoped that the 19th century was just a passing phase, a blip in the normal transmission of draconian values. The 20th century eventually took them by complete surprise. They were completely unready for the rapidity of the great majority of social changes which had been occurring in the west for at least 100 years. Actually, they were almost completely unaware of them. Time had stood still for so long …”

PS: teksten til sangen kan finnes via et nettsøk.

~ by antiislamist on May 7, 2009.