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Iran puts £60,000 bounty on the head of rapper for singing 'blasphemous' songs

Posted by bigman on 27 May 2012

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Iran puts £60,000 bounty on the head of rapper for singing 'blasphemous' songs Wanted: Rapper Shahin Najafi has a £60,000 bounty on his head for his blasphemous music

A rapper has gone into hiding after Iranian clerics put a fatwa on his head along with a £60,000 reward for his death.

Cologne-based rapper Shahin Najafi drew the wrath of Shiite Muslims after publishing a song that appeared to make fun of a holy cleric of Islam.

Najafi rapped about a man who has been dead 1,143 years: the 10th imam, Ali al-Hadi al-Naqi, imploring in verse for the imam to return to modern-day Iran to sort out the regime there.

He further angered the hardline Islamic rulers of Iran with a video that showed a mosque dome in the shape of a women's breast.

Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani in the Iranian city of Qom criticised him and that has now translated into a contract on his head.

He is now under police protection in Germany at an undisclosed location.

Last Friday, Najafi was under police protection in an undisclosed location in Germany.

Officials say the situation is very serious and he has been forced to cancel a European tour.

Iranian Cleric Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani criticised Najafi's music who fled the country to the west Speaking from his hiding place to German news magazine Der Spiegel he said: At first I thought it was nonsense. I couldn't believe it. Only when I saw the bounty on my head on the Internet did I truly understand that this was serious.

Najafi escaped to the west in 2005 after being sentenced to three years in jail and 100 lashes for singing a song poking fun at Islamic beards.
He got away before the sentence was carried out.

Now the song Naqi has turned him into the Salman Rushdie of the rap world. The British author spent many years in hiding for offending Islam in his novel "The Satanic Verses" before the fatwa was finally lifted.

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Comments (2)


Jam_Ali wrote on 05 June, 2012

So what do you expect, award him Iran Ratna?

Jam_Ali wrote on 05 June, 2012

Rap music is a product of a corrupt mind and only mentally sick people will appreciate this kind of utter filthy nonsense as creative art.