Taqwacore
“Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam follows Michael and his kindred spirits as they travel across the U.S. in their green school bus, challenging Muslims and non-Muslims with punchy anthems like Sharia Law in the U.S.A. Their spiritual odyssey then leads them to Pakistan, where they bring punk to the streets of Lahore and reconnect with Islam in a bold new way.”
Looks interesting
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Jun 21, 2010 @ 04:36:56
So, I was watching, and I saw Strombo (George Stroumboulopoulos) in what was obviously an interview on The Hour, so my inner Canuckitude kicked in and I watched the ~12min interview with Michael Muhammad Knight on the Taqwacores, and his autobiography, looking for the answer to the question “Rebel with a cause or rebel without a clue?” as a third year undergrad framed it to me once. So now I’m like, yea man, paranoid schizo for a father, bummer, looking for an alternative, found Malcolm, looking to Islam to make him a man, disappointed ’cause like everyone is Allah, and Mohamed is dead man, and looking for the real Pakistani Islam not the Saudi Wahhabi one in the madrassa found like a bunch of guys twirling and shouting Ali!, and that’s like Islam too, found like a Sufi dude and his male friend buried together, like “friends” and that’s Islam too, like…
Talented though.
Jun 21, 2010 @ 04:38:24
PS click on “the ~12min interview” to link to the interview.