This Flamenco Ted who is a friend of Nahro and is a good man because he gave an instrument to an asylum seeker, is he the same Ted who used to call us all "a bunch of towel heads" when he did not think I knew English? If it is him I know him. And a rich man giving £5.00 to a charity is nothing special. Is he the Ted who tried to destroy an asylum seekers' Christmas party when he said he would not play 1 week before the party? He is not with the Kurdish people. Maybe he thinks people will think he is a good man if he plays music with foreign people.

Greg is right when he says people do not know what Kurdish music is. You can change English folk music because everyone knows what English folk music is. Most English people hear a Kurdish musician for the first time and they will think he is Kurdish music, they have not heard other Kurdish music. Our scales are different and we use more modulation in our singing and playing. Again Greg is right that English people do not know when someone is out of tune in Kurdish music. We do know and that is why I speak about the people in Hull who say they are Kurdish musicians.

When an asylum seeker comes to a new country he can invent a new history for himself. Some said they were doctors but they were not. Medicine is science and you can test people. Music is art and you can not test art. If I said I was a teacher at Baghdad University and played music in the best orchestra in Iraq many English people will believe me. If I play Kurdish music badly those people will think I am playing it well. Some Kurdish musicians in Hull say they are respected all over the world when they only started playing music when they came to England. Maybe their English friends have told them to lie about themselves because some English musicians want to play with Kurdish musicians because it makes them look good and makes money. These English say they are helping asylum seekers but they are never there for us when there is a problem. They are only there when there is a party and music. And we know that one of the Kurdish "musicians" in Hull even changed his name when he came to England. You see how an asylum seeker can become a new person very easily?

Believe me, you are dealing with phoney people who have got jobs because they made friends with English people who are musicians. They do not even mix with other Kurdish people anymore, only when they are paid for playing at a party.
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