Orphaned Land for Peace Prize 2012-10-26 by RedTravis713 | 31 Comments |
Israeli progressive metal band Orphaned Land is encouraging fans to sign a petition (created by a fan of the band) submitted to the Norwegian Nobel Committee to consider them for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, in case you think they are worthy of such a prize.
Vocalist Kobi Farhi left this message on the band's Facebook page: "This is my personal request to all my friends from the Middle East, Turkey, and in general from all my Muslim friends here on my page: We know for a long time now that we are above politics, we know that if it was in our hands, peace would have prevailed right away. Please enter this link and sign if you find us worthy, please also spread the word and share it on your pages? I send my endless love to all of you and all my love and best greetings for the coming holyday in a few days. Salam/Shalom/Peace."
The petition refers four major achievements of the band in the effort to transform the Middle East conflicts:
Reciprocating the band's courageous efforts to cross religious and national boundaries, Divan, an Iranian rock magazine, featured Orphaned Land on their cover in an eight-page spread.
In 2010, the band was awarded a peace prize by Istanbul Commerce University for their contribution to the friendship between Muslims and Jews in the Middle East.
In February 2012, in a five-city tour of Turkey (in which proceeds from the Istanbul concert went to the victims of the Van earthquake), Orphaned Land was given The Friendship and Peace Award from Dr. Huseyin Tugcu, official advisor to Prime Minster Erdogan.
In September 2012, Orphaned Land was bestowed another Peace and Friendship award by Bulent Tanik, Mayor of Cankaya (the main district of the capital Ankara).
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/nominate-orphaned-land-for-the-2013-nobel-peace-prize.html
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Tagged: Orphaned Land
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Cool.
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It's true they've been doing a terrific job to bring peace to such troubled region, like making their last record avaible for free to all muslim countries, or doing that V/A compilation with lots some Arabic and Jewish bands. But still...Nobel Prize???? not sure about that.
Signed anyway
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^well I mean they've done more than obama
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Nobel Peace Prize? Not gonna happen, guys.
Not when ORwarriOR was that lame.
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all very nice but it's like pissing in the wind, those guys are gonna hate each other for eternity, it's the gift of religion
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Great to see bands spreading peace. Middle East needs it.
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oh man Mabool used to be my shit. haven't listened to that in so long
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nah
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They do a lot of good sure...but if you're asking to be given a fucking prize for being good, you're probably not nearly as good as you make out
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they are secretly asking for the million bucks that comes with each prize.
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I find it really lame for them to ask people to sign a petition for this. Mabool is still one of my favorite albums of all time, but Kobi's head just keeps getting bigger. I think he thinks he's the second coming of Christ.
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I mean, since they didn't put it together, they're just supporting their fan's idea because they're flattered. But, I doubt they'll win the piece prize because they don't have Obama in their name.
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a peace prize for writing two concept albums?
get the fuck out of here.
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*peace
Man the flu obviously kills my brain.
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Aren't these guys pro-Israeli's? If so, they will win the prize for sure. Didn't both of their albums suck huge balls too?
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They didnt do shit really.
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I guess I put on the wrong album ^#*WUD*!
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Mabool is sick bro. Haven't heard ORWarriOR even though I've had it for like 2 years lol.
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pro-Israeli's?? You mean like Zionists?
Not really, they're just a bunch of Israeli dudes making music.
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woo they released an album for free and done a shitty compilation
not signing ever
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they don't need signatures from agalloch fans, so stfu.
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They do cuz they suck.
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lmao that mabool album is so bad
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lol
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everything they've put out has been bad and the fact they're going for a nobel peace prize is just obnoxious and totally ruins the intentions they originally had for the whole thing
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go away noctus
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:]
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"everything they've put out has been bad "
False
"and the fact they're going for a nobel peace prize is just obnoxious and totally ruins the intentions they originally had for the whole thing"
I kind of agree with this. Sure their intentions were probably the best, but in the end this fool's crusade will only make them look overly ambitious.
But Noctus there's no denial they've doing a small, but still meritorious job to make these people to better understand each other.
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Mabool rules [235325]
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Mabool will always be 5/5 for me. Killer album. ORwarrior was a quarter decent, three quarters retarded. Them winning a nobel peace prize would be full retard. To be fair they do have a huge following in many Muslim countries and they write their lyrics to cater to all major faiths in an attempt to bridge the gap musically, and they do succeed... but that really isn't work a Nobel prize ffs. Granted the Nobel committee really jumped the shark when they gave Al Gore and the IPCC a PEACE prize... for scientific work. Not anything having to do with peace.
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"We're Israeli rock artists who've managed to somehow not piss off the Muslim world. Give us an
award!"
everything they've put out has been bad and the fact they're going for a nobel peace prize is
just obnoxious and totally ruins the intentions they originally had for the whole thing[2]
Spot on, old chap.
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