WEAPONIZING BOLLYWOOD: “It’s not just ISIL that hates music. Conservative Arab Moslems have a particular distaste for all music and especially ‘Bollywood’ (hit tunes from Indian movies) music. Early Moslems were particularly hostile to Hinduism (for reasons too complex to explain here) but young Moslem men in Arabia and throughout Asia find Bollywood films, especially the many musicals and their memorable melodies, irresistible. The images of pretty young women dancing with handsome young men added to the appeal but all of this stuff was strictly forbidden by Islamic radicals, like those running al Qaeda and ISIL. Worse, when this music is used as a ‘weapon’ some of the young men on the receiving end find they do like it but have to conceal that lest they be accused of apostasy and executed.”