September 12, 2005
Hate-Pop
The only silver lining to this is that it's only a matter of time before some members of Hamas, like the Taliban, decide all music is evil and turn their guns on the "Yassin Band". Here's hoping...
They may be Islamic radicals but even Hamas values a catchy pop tune, cranking out 10 new victory songs about Israel's historic pullout from the Gaza Strip.
Notorious for its use of suicide bombers in Israel, the extremist faction has now released "Gaza Victory News", its latest weapon in its propaganda war with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas's
Fatah party.
Seeking credit for the end of Israel's 38-year occupation, the album, with a sinister masked man and an Israeli soldier's boot in flames on the cover, boasts songs by the Yassin Band, named after the late Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
The songs are generally drum machine and violin-filled. Thunderous baritone choirs and a male tenor or child's soprano weave in and out on tracks called "Gaza, it has come", "We liberated Gaza" and "It is returned with blood".
The message is clear: that Hamas's military wing forced Israel out of Gaza.
The music has scored with Gaza's youth, weaned on a culture of guns and "martyrdom". (via LGF)
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