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NEWS
16 February 2004

Censorship in Kuwait
An Islamist lawmaker has said he was coordinating with other MPs to ban music education at schools in Kuwait because it was "anti-Islamic and a waste of time."
From ABC news online;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1016896.htm

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