Salman Ahmad, Sufi rocker | Brian Whitaker

Can extremism be defeated by rock music? Maybe not, but Salman Ahmad's message of tolerance deserves to be heardYou can tell he's a celeb the minute he enters the room. His hat, which he keeps on all the time, might easily be Bob Dylan's cast-off from the John Wesley Harding album. Then there's the pony tail – "a gift from Allah", he says.Salman Ahmad is the leading exponent of "Sufi rock" music, sometimes described as Pakistan's Bono and even hailed as the latest weapon against Islamic extrem...

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