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Jan 23, 2006 1:50 am
Hailed the Bono of the Muslim World
His group was banned from performing in Pakistan from 1996 to 1999 after referring to government corruption in a song and protesting Pakistan's and India's nuclear testing. After fundamentalists won local elections in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar region in 2002 and outlawed all music as un-Islamic, the BBC, in the documentary "Rock Star and the Mullahs," chronicled how Ahmad challenged fundamentalists to show where in the Qur’an music is forbidden.
They couldn't, but still held to their views.
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And there is a new film coming out called
‘Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.’
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