Islamic street preachers

by UK Guardian (reposted)

Fri, Apr 27, 2007 10:06PM

From Boston to Lahore and beyond, the tentacles of taqwacore - aka Islamic punk rock - are spreading. And it's giving disenfranchised young Muslims a voice, says Riazat Butt

Saturday April 28, 2007
The Guardian

There can't be that many female playwrights who are deaf, punk and Muslim, so Sabina England is something of a find. With a lurid Mohawk and leather jacket slathered with slogans, she looks every inch the rebel and has an attitude to match.

Sabina, who says she lives in the "shitty midwest of the United States" or the "HELL-HOLE OF BOREDOM AND YUPPIES", is part of a subculture that, until a few years ago, existed only on paper.

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§Taqwacores worth the read

by detlef

Sat, Apr 28, 2007 6:20AM

Autonomedia published The Taqwacores two years ago; it's a great book, as this article attests.

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§Ugggghhh...

by Prom

Sat, Apr 28, 2007 9:01AM

You've gotta be kidding me. This is just as oxymoronic to punk as christian punk is. Islam, as well as most Judeo-Christian religions, is extremely violent, and advocates stoning, murder of "Idolaters" and execution of homosexuals. How is this punk?

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