2021 Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi

Subject: Obit: Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: GUEST,SB666
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 04:12 AM

Murdered by Taliban: Fawad Andarabi sings 'our beautiful valley'

Video: Taliban murder Afghan singer: Folk musician who played the lute and sang traditional songs for locals in the mountains was 'dragged out of his home and shot in the head'

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Folk singer Fawad Andarabi is singing and playing music with companions against a scenic valley backdrop singing 'our beautiful valley, land of our forefathers'. He is reported to have been brutally murdered by the Taliban in Afganhistan.

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Taliban murder Afghan singer: Folk musician who played the lute and sang traditional songs for locals in the mountains was 'dragged out of his home and shot in the head'

*    Fawad Andarabi was killed on Friday in the Andarabi Valley, Baghlan province
*    His son, Jawad, said the Taliban had previously searched his father's home and drank tea with the musician but something changed that day
*    Reason for the killing unknown and Jawad said a local Taliban council has promised to punish the killer, group's spokesman said it would investigate
*    The killing has reignited concerns that the Taliban will return to oppressive rule
*   The insurgent group recaptured the Afghan capital on August 15

By Ap and Charlotte Mitchell For Mailonline

Published: 11:51, 29 August 2021 | Updated: 12:49, 29 August 2021

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The Taliban have killed an Afghan folk singer in a restive mountain province under unclear circumstances, reigniting concerns that the insurgents will return to their oppressive rule.

Fawad Andarabi was shot and killed on Friday in the Andarabi Valley, for which he was named, his family said on Sunday.

The area is in Baghlan province, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kabul, which was recaptured by the Taliban on August 15.

The valley had seen an upheaval since the Taliban takeover, with some districts coming under the control of militia fighters opposed to Taliban rule.

The Taliban says it has since retaken those areas, although neighbouring Panjshir in the Hindu Kush mountains remains the only one of Afghanistan's 34 provinces not under its control.

Andarabi's son Jawad told the Associated Press that the Taliban had previously come to his father's home and searched it, even drinking tea with the musician. But something changed on Friday.
Folk singer Fawad Andarabi (centre in green) was shot and killed on Friday in the Andarabi Valley, for which he was named, his family said on Sunday

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Folk singer Fawad Andarabi (centre in green) was shot and killed on Friday in the Andarabi Valley, for which he was named, his family said on Sunday

'He was innocent, a singer who was only entertaining people,' Jawad said. 'They shot him in the head on the farm'.

Jawad said he wants justice and that a local Taliban council promised to punish his father's killer.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the AP that the insurgents would investigate the incident, but said he had no other details on the killing.

Andarabi played the ghichak, a bowed lute, and sang traditional songs about his birthplace, his people, and Afghanistan as a whole.

A video shared online showed him during one performance, sitting on a rug and surrounded by mountains as he sang.

'There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation,' he sang. 'Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents' homeland'.

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Masoud Andarabi, former Afghan minister of the interior, wrote in a Twitter post alongside the video: 'Taliban's brutality continues in Andarab. Today they brutally killed folkloric singer, Fawad Andarabi who simply was bringing joy to this valley and its people.

'As he sang here 'our beautiful valley….land of our forefathers…' will not submit to Taliban's brutality.'

Andarabi's slaying also drew responses from the international community, with Karima Bennoune, the United Nations special rapporteur on cultural rights, writing on Twitter that she had 'grave concern' over the killing.

Agnes Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, also decried the killing.

'There is mounting evidence that the Taliban of 2021 is the same as the intolerant, violent, repressive Taliban of 2001,' she wrote on Twitter. '20 years later. Nothing has changed on that front.'

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Andarabi's killing comes as the United States winds down an historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul's international airport, the scene of much of the chaos that engulfed the Afghan capital since the Taliban took over two weeks ago.

After an Islamic State affiliate's suicide attack that killed over 180 people, the Taliban increased its security around the airfield as the UK ended its evacuation flights Saturday.

U.S. military cargo planes continued their runs into the airport Sunday, ahead of a Tuesday deadline earlier set by President Joe Biden to withdraw all troops from America's longest war.
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Subject: RE: Obit: Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: GUEST,SB999
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 04:17 AM

Folk singer Fawad Andarabi (centre in green) was shot and killed on Friday in the Andarabi Valley, for which he was named, his family said on Sunday

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/08/29/12/47233045-9937425-image-a-15_1630237420312.jpg

Subject: RE: Obit: Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 04:47 AM

More links ....

https://www.google.com/search?q=Fawad+Andarabi

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Subject: RE: Obit: Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 09:59 AM

The Daily Mail isn't the best site, but there are other unaffiliated sites reporting this tragedy. Classic FM: Taliban executes folk singer after announcing a public music ban in Afghanistan.

Subject: RE: Obit: Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: GUEST,SB666
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 03:45 PM

Similar info. has been posted to the Brit-centric forum Tradsong.io - THEY BLOCKED AKA CENSORED IT. Obviously they are so up their own ar$es that the death aka murder of a world-renowned and revered traditional singer is of no consequence.

Subject: RE: Obit: Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 03:46 PM

Also try the Google search - link above.

Subject: RE: Obit: Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: Felipa
Date: 01 Sep 21 - 04:04 PM

If music is "un-Islamic" as Classic FM reports the Taliban as saying, how do we have so much beautiful music coming from so many countries where Islam is the dominant faith?

Subject: RE: Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: GUEST,JaneB
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 07:31 AM

Depends on the interpretation of Islam. For some interpretations, all music is forbidden and only 'chanting' is allowed. Are you questioning whether the Taliban murdered him?

Subject: RE: Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 07:33 AM

It was a rhetorical question, Jane B

Subject: RE: Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 11:20 AM

He will be greatly missed! My condolences to all those who know and love him. May he rest in peace.

Subject: RE: Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: GUEST,JaneB
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 11:58 AM

So what were you asking rhetorically, other than suggesting that since Islamic countries can produce beautiful music, they can't be banning it in Afghanistan so they can't have murdered a musician.

Subject: RE: Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 12:57 PM

No, Jane. Give it a rest.

Subject: RE: Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi - August 2021
From: Felipa
Date: 03 Sep 21 - 02:35 PM

Jane, you obviously haven't an inkling what I meant. I was suggesting that there is more than one interpretation of Islam and that music is appreciated by most adherents of the faith; regardless of how the Taliban view it.

Subject: RE: 2021 Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi
From: GUEST,SB666
Date: 09 Sep 21 - 04:16 AM

Why has the date been removed from the Subject???

Subject: RE: 2021 Obit: Afghan Singer Fawad Andarabi
From: GUEST,Felipa
Date: 09 Sep 21 - 01:26 PM

I see that 2021 was added to the beginning of the subject title, SB666. Who knows the mind of the moderator, but this is probably an attempt to have a consistent style for obituary notices.