[Reader-list] Taqwacore: Muslim Punk Rock!!!

[yasir ~يا سر]

neshtyak !

had come across them before, but the trailer is coool.
dont miss it.



On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Paul D. Miller <anansi1 at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Rather intriguing film...
> Paul aka Dj Spooky
>
> Blurb:
>
> URL:
> http://www.taqwacore.com/
> Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression
> of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by
> a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life
> scene of Muslim punk bands and their fans.
>
>
> When he was 17, Michael Knight left his mother’s home in Rochester to study
> Islam at a Pakistani madrassa. It was his first act of rebellion – against
> his abusive, schizophrenic, white-supremacist father. Years later, burned
> out on the demands of religious dogma, Mike rebelled once more – by penning
> a Muslim Punk manifesto called The Taqwacores. His work of fiction struck a
> chord with young Muslims around the world and before long, real-life
> Taqwacore bands were creating a scene. This film follows Michael and his
> band of Muslim punks as they journey across the U.S. and Pakistan,
> transforming their worlds, their religion and themselves through the spirit
> of Taqwacore.
>
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