Footage has emerged of the Berlin-based DJ Dax J sampling the sacred music
The videos depict the British-born DJ performing a track that samples the Muslim call to prayer – the religious act Muslims perform five times a day – at Orbit Festival on Friday night (31 March). The event took place at the El Guitone nightclub, in Nabeul, which is situated in a Muslim-majority country.
Mnaouar Ouertani, the governor of Nabeul said, “After confirming the facts, we decided to close this nightclub”, and added that the government “will not allow attacks against religious feelings and the sacred.”
The manager has been arrested for the “violation against good morals and public outrage against modesty”.
Dax J has since offered “sincere apologies to anyone who may have been offended by music that I played at Orbit Festival in Tunisia on Friday,” and further stated, “It was never my intention to upset or cause offence to anybody”. His Facebook page was removed after the DJ began receiving death threats.
The festival has also issued an apology on Facebook.
An investigation is currently being carried out, and the club will remain closed until further notice.
(via BBC)
Update: Dax J has been sentenced to a year in jail. The British-born DJ had fled the country before his court case, and has been charged with both public indecency and offending public morality.