Azerbaijan - Internal Political Affairs

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Azerbaijan - Internal Political Affairs

Does anyone know anything about the music? Does anyone know enough about Turkish culture to say whether the music has similarity to Turkish traditional music? Because it's very similar to the religious music I grew up in Iran with. Music the Iranians would play during the various mourning religious days of remembrance.

Yes, as retro said, it is not Turkish, or like anything you would hear in Turkey. But we do not know if it was on the original report (what is www.faktxeber.com?), or if the uploader put that music over the original report (who are the ACP Youth Organization?) or if the uploader took the video from a third-party site and they had put the music over the original footage. The "background" sound you hear under the music is certainly not the original background sound. And the video looks like people demonstrating against the suspicious deaths of soldiers - so it is not a religious demonstration.

[Vahram]

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Hey Mher those chain beating folks have preserved all the Armenian churches in Iran. Just look at what is happening in Sooria!

[Mher]

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And these video's make me appreciate living in the US more. Though you can criticize a lot of things about America, it will never be at the level of a child looking down in his street and seeing a hoard of thousands of a lord of the rings like army marching, yelling in some foreign language, and hitting themselves with a chain.

[Mher]

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...or it could just be that they wanted to include a song by the British singer Sami Yusuf, who performs Islamic vocal music? He is Iranian Azerbaijani.

I don't think an Islamist regime, especially a Shia one, is one we should be hoping for in Azerbaijan. That will soon lead to another dicatorship, which will lead to more insane claims to Artsakh. More importantly, though there always gonna have territorial issues, it will no doubt drastically improve their relations with Iran.

I think a democratic revolution would be the best case scenario because in that case they would be more reasonable in regards to the Artsakh situation and moreover, still have very poor relations with Iran.

Hopefully Aliyev gets a few more years to drain their resources, and then loses power without any external war.

[TomServo]

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...or it could just be that they wanted to include a song by the British singer Sami Yusuf, who performs Islamic vocal music? He is Iranian Azerbaijani.

[retro]

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I don't know, it's possible. But there is a growing Salafi (reactionary Sunnis) presence in Azerbaijan that is worrying for the Aliyevs. A few of these Azeri Salafis were killed in Syria over the last year.

It wouldn't surprise me if the Saudis are trying to export their crap to Azerbaijan. As the Shia are a real threat to the Sunnis demographically and they are very worried about them.

Loads of Jihadists have been killed in Syria and that war has been going very badly for them.

[retro]

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The music sounds Arabic borderline Wahhabi and I am surprised you have heard similar music to that in Iran.

The Shia also have Nasheed music. However it's defiantly Arab and the sort of thing that you would expect to hear in a Al-Qaeda propaganda video.

[Federate]

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Maybe they are a Shia group with ties to Iran?

I don't know, it's possible. But there is a growing Salafi (reactionary Sunnis) presence in Azerbaijan that is worrying for the Aliyevs. A few of these Azeri Salafis were killed in Syria over the last year.

[Mher]

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The music sounds Arabic borderline Wahhabi and I am surprised you have heard similar music to that in Iran.

I really wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Shia and Sunni Arabic music. What i was referring to was what they play during Ashura Tasura. That's what this reminded me of. Though I left Iran 12 years ago, so again maybe I remember incorrectly.

[retro]

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It was more likely made by people opposed to Aliyev, a religious opposition.

Maybe they are a Shia group with ties to Iran?