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Personally, I feel its the context of dancing that should be considered. There's stage show dancing, which has a theme presented for an event, slow dancing between couples (nothing unislamic in some slow moves with the wife right?), then there's mujra.Sure public opinion is a factor - however; the thread was been presented as national disgrace with call sfor his ouster and of course the islamist 5th column chose to add it's own unique take on events.
Dance is part of Pakistani culture, now I realize it's not Saudi culture, though Saudi will dispute this, cuz they are some dancing fools among themselves - but the hysterical reaction to the dance is a bit over the top, in my opinion.
Sooner or later we will grow up and not find in a dance the kinds of consequences we do now - but every joujrney begins with the t first step, eh?
This clearly was a cultural 'staged' show. The PM knew it would be construed as the mujra as the gentleman has with his declaration of disgrace. This is the fate of the performing arts in Pakistan. I had the good fortune to speak with Faraz Anwar of the band Mizraab, probably one of the best guitarists around the world , and he said that "Main jitnay bhi awards jeetloon, humari qaum k liay main maraasi hi rahoonga". Really sad.
Dance, music, and all other performing arts are part of the evolving Pakistani culture. What would my generation know about Music say without Junoon? The problem I think people have is that there was a chick dancing which was a decent thing to look at.
The Mullah mentality would always have issues with music. In another conversation with Junoon's Salman Ahmed, he explained it in probably the best way. He said, you can compare a Mullah's waz with my song Allah Hu. A Mullah attracts in one standing a few hundred people and he can get a crowd of at least 10,000. "The Mullah has basically lost his gig".
It's all politics if you ask me. If you go through the Quran, there is a not a single Ayah condemning Music. We learn about these things being bad from the Hadiths which are recorded by Man. Mind control. In Islams battle to remain unchanged, its has solidly changed it by allowing these zombifying Mullahs as the authoritative body on religious affairs.