Islam is portrayed as oppressive ( women in Hijab ); outmoded ( hanging, beheading and stoning to death ); anti-intellectualist ( book burning ); restrictive ( bans on post-and extramarital affairs, alcohol and gambling ); extremist ( focusing on Algeria, Lebanon and of course Egypt ); backward ( Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the Sudan ); the cause of worldwide conflict ( Palestine, Kashmir and Indonesia ); and dangerous ( Turkey and Iran ).
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In " Musique Byzantine " ( 1953 54 ), he expanded his topics on aesthetics, such as tonality necessity, exotic melody, opera ( the " song of rich people " ), boredom, originality or " marshmallow music ", and asserted with controversial sharpness his anti-modern ideas, mocking at the same time musical enslavement by the new music industry and the intellectualist decay embodied in his point of view by the avant-garde praise for new techniques and processes, especially within the booming serialism.
