song 142 : Lost in the Mosque (outtake) (Tacoma Ballet)
The title is of course post 9/11. I have no idea what I was thinking of when I recorded it but today Ronnie’s Arabic sounding lick and the lyrics I came up with remind me of the confusion I felt stuck in a Tacoma hotel room watching endless repeats of the planes hitting the towers on the day I was supposed to fly home to Los Angeles.
All I kept wondering was why and how? How did the culture of Islam, once known for its superior tolerance, beautiful art, deepest poetry, and advanced medicine, why was it now famous for suicide bombers?
One of my favorite women in history is the great Sufi poetess Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya. They say she ran through the streets of her home town with a bucket of water and a burning torch. “What are you trying to do?” she was asked. “Burn down heaven and quench the fires of hell,” she answered. She wanted religious people to understand that greed and fear are not the same as love.
END OF EPISODE SIX
NEXT EPISODE SEVEN: MUNG JUNG BUSHI + MISC
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All I kept wondering was why and how? How did the culture of Islam, once known for its superior tolerance, beautiful art, deepest poetry, and advanced medicine, why was it now famous for suicide bombers?
One of my favorite women in history is the great Sufi poetess Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya. They say she ran through the streets of her home town with a bucket of water and a burning torch. “What are you trying to do?” she was asked. “Burn down heaven and quench the fires of hell,” she answered. She wanted religious people to understand that greed and fear are not the same as love.
END OF EPISODE SIX
NEXT EPISODE SEVEN: MUNG JUNG BUSHI + MISC
Listen to the song: Click Here
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