'The city almost feels dead': Afghanistan's only music school complete its exit

. But musicians face an especially difficult time under the austere fighters, whose interpretation of Islam has led them to outlaw music altogether in the past.

“When I speak with my friends and family in Kabul, they say that music is very rare,” said Arson Fahim, a pianist who escaped the Afghan capital shortly before theWhile Afghanistan has a rich, centurieslong music tradition, and the Quran does not explicitly prohibit music or make it “un-Islamic,” the Taliban are using their extremist interpretation of Islam to justify erasing history and identity, of which music is a mainstay, historian Mejgan Massoumi at Stanford University said.

When they were first in power between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban banned all music outright. But this time around, trying to project aDespite promises of moderation, the Taliban have unleashed asince returning to power as they try to consolidate control over the fractious country and force Afghans to adhere to their strict interpretation of Islam.

Pianist Arson Fahim, 21, left Kabul for the U.S. just 2 weeks before the Taliban took over the Afghan capital to study music in the U.S. Fahim, a pianist who graduated from the school earlier this year, left for the U.S. just two weeks before Kabul fell to the Taliban to study at Massachusetts’ Longy School of Music of Bard College.He said he considers himself enormously lucky, but he has been riddled with worry about his former colleagues in Kabul and the school that he said changed his life.He said he never thought the school, along with hundreds of Afghan musicians, could be silenced.

Once again they are getting all the women & girl's out, but leaving the Men & Boy's behind! No one cares about Men or Boy's anymore, and that's alright w/women & girl's, because they are selfish in that way all around the world!

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