Iraqi Music & Ballet School Targeted By Militants

“Gunmen threaten to kill their relatives, roadside bombs make journeys to school hazardous and religious hardliners persecute them – but the children of Iraq’s Music and Ballet School have an antidote to war: music… The emergence of a new breed of militants, who target people practising arts they consider “un-Islamic”, has led several worried parents to take their children out of the school.”