Music censorship

jbartual
By jbartual

Hi all,

I'm moving to Qatar late August. I've reading a lot here about censorship, but I have a question. Will I have problems bringing my CD/DVD collection of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, KISS, The Rolling Stones, Iron Maiden, Ramnstein, Marilyn Manson, etc...?

Now I'm ripping it to MP3 and putting on an external hard drive, along with some other stuff, but maybe one day I'll bring the CDs themselves.

Thanks!!
Jordi

By baldrick2dogs• 5 Aug 2008 07:07
Rating: 2/5
baldrick2dogs

Bring your hard drive - let's a an mp3 swap party. 302GB and counting ;o)

By flanostu• 5 Aug 2008 00:40
flanostu

Marilyn Manson???!!!! I'm telling customs!

By bisdak• 4 Aug 2008 23:29
bisdak

see and read the answers to your Q.! so, what are you waiting for? bring it here in big Q. share it with us...pls

By anonymous• 4 Aug 2008 23:05
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

Hello Jordi,

I'm qatari and I listen to those bands my self. Don't worry about anything just pop those cds and start rocking.

They only censor explicit content on the radio and the movies(which can get a little annoying...sometimes).

BTW where are you moving from?

By Mr. Brightside• 4 Aug 2008 22:43
Rating: 2/5
Mr. Brightside

Your idea of ripping them off to hard drive is better. Still no one will harm you from bringing those hard core music cd's. Not until you really bring a lot of boxes that reach almost 50 kilos. That will be subjected for interrogation.

Do you play in a band? You rather bring your guitar and special effects or gadgets. Thats necessary here than music cd's.

By MikaylasMom• 4 Aug 2008 21:53
MikaylasMom

My husband brought all of that and more. There was no problem. So, bring it on!

By irrysa• 4 Aug 2008 21:17
Rating: 4/5
irrysa

listen, just relax.

this is not a place where people would stone u for ur music prefs :D

u can bring ur CDs and whatever u want. as long as u r not worshiping sth nasty and r not bugging people around u, it's cool with everyone in here what u like to listen to.

btw, i've seen ppl wearing t-shirts with those bands, walking freely in malls and nothing happens.

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