It is becoming more common in many countries where music has become the bane of all society and culture, Music from Mali silenced by extremists. Again another example where blame is placed on artists who
“We can no longer live like we used to live,” lamented Aminata Wassidie Traore, 36, a singer who fled her village of Dire, near Timbuktu. “The Islamists do not want anyone to sing anymore.”
These same words can be almost applicable to artists/musicians in Paris, Belgium and other countries where these combattants are not allowing the artists to make a living. Living under continual threats and now some have become death threats by local wannabe militia types of ignoramuses. The utter contemptible attitudes of these and other groups trying to suppress music threaten the very thing that many cultures are based on is a threat to man/womankind as a whole..