Cultural crackdown
I was concerned to read that the Iraqi Education Ministry had banned theatre and music classes at Baghdad’s Fine Arts Institute, citing religious reasons, as always. Religion has already been used to destroy and control too many lives, not just in Iraq but throughout the Arab world and even further afield. I find it hard to understand how any God, of any religion could be offended by a group of people working together to produce something beautiful and inspiring, often, in the case of music, in celebration of the very same religion that is trying to ban them in the first place!
It’s not as if students at the Institute were putting on risqué burlesque shows, featuring rebellious Muslim girls wearing flimsy dance fabrics. These were serious students, who spent their time working hard, analysing and discussing historical theatrical and religious works, not young people who were looking to rock the boat or create a stir.
On the same day that they announced the ban on performance classes at an Institute dedicated to artistic performance, the Ministry officials also removed a number of historic sculptures from the grounds of the building. Some see this as a more serious development, especially in light of the museum looting that has taken place over the last few years. Too many of Iraq’s great treasures have already disappeared without a trace, lost forever to private collectors or smuggled out of the country to be sold to the highest bidder. Who’s to say that this won’t happen to the works of art taken from the Fine Arts Institute in the name of religion? Yet another example of a religion being corrupted by the greed and ambition of man.
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