Islamic music video channel 4Shbab launches
Issue 8, Spring 2009
Funded by Saudi investors, the Islamic music video network 4Shbab is the latest project of Ahmed Abu Haiba, former producer for the Amr Khaled series Kalam min al-Qalb.
Click the video above to watch a three minute video segment on the channel's launch prepared by Ismail Elmokadem. Below are three music videos currently appearing on 4 Shabab.
Ismail Elmokadem is a Canadian‐Egyptian journalist and filmmaker, who has dedicated himself to the art of creative story telling. For the past three years, he has been working exclusively on documentaries and programs about the Middle East . He is currently also a news producer with Agence France Press TV.
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Is this, personally I find, just backward. I have a questions, isn't this against secularism? or secular media?
Moustafa
I didn't see one girl in 4shabab. lol
Yousef
I don't think it is 'against' secularism. it just offers another perspective. You wouldn't say a cartoon channel is 'against' a comedy channel :)
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I wonder when people of the region and various countries will "own" their own religion and culture? Why do Egyptians, Tunisians, Moroccans, Syrians etc..., as a society, allow the Salafis backed by Saudi petrodollars dictate Islam? Just because someone is from Mecca or Medina does not make him a guiding light. So far Wahhabi and Salafi doctrine has done nothing to advance the Arab world, rather its sole aim seems to be to drag the entire Arab nation and the umma back to the dark ages. I suppose if you think living under the Taliban and the Mutawaa is great then, ok. Personally, I think this kind of Islam is a cancer on the beautiful civilization that once was the height of knowledge, tolerance, diversity, and progress. I lament the state of the Arab world today. People just can't seem to understand that modernization is a phenonmenon that ALL societies have to contend with and ultimately cannot evade by hiding in the sand. You can find this same illogical resistance grounded in militant and myopic faith amongst evangelicals in the US and even radical Hindu groups in India-the kind that attack movie theaters that show films that "degrade traditional morality" and assault any Hindu that keeps company with a Muslim. Clearly humanity has learned little in its few thousand years. Just to be clear, this kind of programming is not new. The Christian right in the US did this decades ago, in the MTV era, Christian rock was a rage that came and went. I find these attempts to make religion into popculture a thinly veiled propaganda. Just to be clear, I have nothing against spirituality and believe in a deeper, universal force. But religious dogma and brainwashing is nothing new in the long history of humans.
J Nassar
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