“Following the affront by rap singer Shahin Najafi against Imam Hadi (7th Imam of Shias) in a song called ‘Naghi’, his apostasy sentence has been issued by Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani,” Iran’s official Fars News Agency said in a website posting in Farsi. Religious figures in Iran see it differently. It seems as though people are just concentrating on the word ‘imam,’ ” Najafi is quoted as saying. “For me it is more of an excuse to talk about completely different things. “The story with ‘Naghi’ was just a pretext,” Najafi said in an interview with Qantara, which the German Foreign Office funds to promote dialogue with the Islamic world. Shahin Najafi, who sings in Farsi and lives in Germany told the German website Qantara that the song “Naghi” is not about a religious figure but about the state of society in Iran. Media Credit: Photo (CNN) (my.) / Video (YouTube gijgah) (BiganeganTV)Īn Iranian rapper is facing death threats and has a $100,000 bounty on his head for a song that some say insults an Islamic Shiite imam.
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