Muslim against music

[OnlyNatural]

OnlyNatural, sorry for going off-topic. If you want to ask any other questions about music in Islam then feel free to do so.

No worries, I enjoy reading the tangents that spin off this topic

I know pretty much nothing about Islam's stance on music. Music is such a central part of most (if not all) cultures, so it's hard to imagine that any group of people wants to suppress or eliminate it. I realize that not all Muslims share this author's hardline stance, obviously, but I guess he's another example of what happens when you try to take your religion too far. Just look at the book he wrote, too:

"A heart filled with music will not have room for God's words," he writes in his book Contemporary Issues, which also defends child marriages, wife beating, polygamy and killing apostates while calling homosexuality "evil and dangerous."

There's nothing like religion for fueling injustice, intolerance and cruelty in those who take it too seriously.