By ALISA TANG
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A music distributor recalled two Thai rap CDs from stores Tuesday after Muslims complained the tracks insult their faith.

An article on the Thai-language Muslim Web site http://www.muslimthai.com said a song recorded on CDs in 1998 and 2005 "clearly insults the Quran," the Muslim holy book.

It said the CDs contain verses from the Quran and "the Quran strictly forbids the use of its verses in songs."

The Council of Muslim Organizations of Thailand said rapper Joey Boy and songwriter Kamol Sukosol Clapp, also known as Suki, should not have used the Quranic verses.

The song, "Maya," was released in 1998 on a Joey Boy CD called "Bangkok Boy" and appeared again on the 2005 compilation "The Conclusive Collection."

Sony BMG Music Entertainment Thailand has recalled both CDs, and they will probably be destroyed, said Saharat Vanchompoo, the Sony marketing director.



Joey Boy and Clapp apologized at a news conference to "all Muslims" for producing the song.

"I did not intend to insult the Quran in any way," said Joey Boy, whose real name is Abhisit Opasiemlikit. "If I knew that there was an insulting sound or element in my song, Suki and I would not have created it."

The rapper, the songwriter, and Sony BMG's Saharat said they have requested a meeting as soon as possible with Thailand's top Muslim leader to formally apologize.

In Europe, drawings of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish paper have sparked violent protests in the Muslim world.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/14..._Rap_Song.html

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Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

Another fatwa in the making?

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fraid so!

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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)

What if?

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/tra...lam/fatwa.html

Fatwas don't seem to be inheretly evil.

So what's new?? :cof:

Whats wrong with this story? They protest something that offends them, just as Christians should and sometimes do. So long as they arent running around in a bloodfrenzy.

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The bloodfrenzy is tommorrow....But hopefully not

I'm offended by ALL rap songs! :piss2: :afro:

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Muslims...offended? Naaawwww...

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John 1:14

rap music is violent...radical Islam is violent...they should embrace it!

I love Soul music from the sixtees and seventees...what ever happened to the real artists in the Black community who gave us this great sound...did they all convert to Islam? dunno....seems as if ol Mikey (perv)Jackson is now going this route too....Islam should be proud....