Banned in Somalia

Declaring music to be "un-Islamic," the militant group Hizbul Islam has coerced radio stations in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, into removing music from their programming.

"We have replaced the music of the early morning program with the sound of the rooster, replaced the news music with the sound of the firing bullet and the music of the night program with the sound of running horses," the director of one station tells The New York Times' Mohammed Ibrahim:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/world/africa/14somalia.html?ref=music