Isn’t this a wonderful world?

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Isn’t this a wonderful world?

: While tending the inspiring new Global Voices harvest of blogs around the world, Rebecca MacKinnon comes across something remarkable that seems to be legit: An all-girl Afghan band called the Burka Band. Listen to their single, Burka Blue.

: LATER: Jeff Hess was, like me, dubious at first but then saw all the press the Burka Band has gotten in Europe and so he says:

It wasnít the Peacemaker nor the Trident that brought down the Soviet Union, it was Coca Cola and Leviís. Will Rock ëní Roll topple the mullahs? Could be.

Better yet, a girl band.

10 responses to “Isn’t this a wonderful world?”

  1. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Ok, it’s great that it’s happening and all…
    But that is one of the worst songs i’ve ever heard.

  2. Epitome Avatar
    Epitome

    These chicks bring the rock!!

  3. von Avatar

    This has got to be a joke. You can’t play guitar like this:
    http://www.atatak.com/burkabandfotos/bass.jpg

  4. Epitome Avatar
    Epitome

    I believe that shot in particular is just for the music video.
    It’s obviously a record company’s gimmick, but it is real, whatever that means.

  5. denis Avatar

    Great. Islamic Spice. I think my head is going to explode.

  6. Jack Tanner Avatar
    Jack Tanner

    they need to get some new costumes with a lot less amterial and some new songs with a lot more material.

  7. Eileen Avatar
    Eileen

    LOL, Jack. Okay, how about a remake of Mullah Mash or Shari(ah) Baby (please accept my profuse apologies for both suggestions!) performed in a freshly mown field of poppies?
    And then here’s actual proof of the *utility* of those burkas in capturing al-Libbi:
    “Witnesses said armed Pakistani agents – some disguised in burqas, the all-encompassing garment worn by women in conservative Islamic families – ambushed the two men as they rode a motorbike across a dusty graveyard on the outskirts of Mardan amid an exchange of gunfire.” ohttp://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050504101609990025&ncid=NWS00010000000001f
    What a perfectly poetic strategy to use those mysterious burkas right back at ’em..
    JJ, there’s something I’ve been meaning to complement you on: you give Really Good Title! And thanks for keeping us ‘abreast’ on so many fronts.

  8. Eileen Avatar
    Eileen

    Er, make that compliment.

  9. Tex MacRae Avatar

    You would believe this.
    Ask yourself where the drummer practices. Just try to imagine.
    Just more patronizing mockery.

  10. Tom Avatar

    Listen to the lyrics…her dad wears a burka?