Ramadan, Shiite rap version in Iraq

On this first day of fasting, some Shiite groups in Iraq rap and offer a lesson in modernism that attracts as much as it displeases.
the time is up to the latmiyates. While all practicing Muslims in the world are living on their first day of Ramadan on Monday, May 6, Shiite groups in central Iraq are testing themselves for rap.

In front of the stage, a crowd of men beat their chest rhythmically: it could be a traditional scene of Shiite Islam with its long chanting sessions, but the room is a mosque and the incantations … a rap for Imam Hussein!

The scene dates from March, but has become recurrent in Najaf, a city in central Iraq.

In this region, groups have been formed to adapt to modern rap "latmiyates", these verses sung recounting the epic and martyrdom of imams and other figures of Shiite Islam, in order to bring them up to date and attract young people.......