random - 5-8-2009 at 06:03 PM
Just heard of it today... apparently it's called taqwacore. Found a clip from an upcoming documentary here: http://eyesteelfilm.com/taqwacore.html
Maybe I'm being judgmental, but looks to me like it's mostly a bunch of non-Muslim punk kids who adopted the religion as some sort of rebellion more
than sincere Muslims or kids raised in a Muslim society who are into punk or hardcore.
Some more stuff to check out if you're interested... though it's all more "indie" than hardcore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqwacore
http://www.myspace.com/althawra
http://www.myspace.com/thekominas
http://www.myspace.com/deadbhuttos
http://www.myspace.com/votehezbollah
DaveMoral - 5-9-2009 at 01:38 AM
I'm a Muslim convert, and quite frankly... the book alot of these kids based their ideas off of gives a bad name to me and all the punks and hardcore
kids I know that converted to Islam and take the religion serious. There's literally no difference between most of the characters in the book and any
other punk or hardcore kid except they are Irani, Arab, or Pakistani for the most part and raised in Muslim families. They don't exactly qualify as
having "taqwa" or piety in even the most liberal interpretation of the religion.
In fact, I just wrote a blog about how much this whole phenomenon pisses me off on my MySpace today. Maybe I should get some of my friends that were
Hardliners together and start a Muslim hardcore band that's A) actually hardcore and B) actually Muslim and into their religion.
Vegan Reich, in all truth, is the original taqwacore band. Racetraitor would qualify as well since at least 2 of the members were Muslims and one was
Bahai. Vegan Reich's last EP had an entire chapter of the Qur'an in Arabic and English on the back cover. Racetraitor had a song that had a few verses
from the Qur'an being recited in the background.
I'm angry, and real. This Michael Muhammad Knight character is a turd, IMO and the kids that follow his ideas are morons.
Colin - 10-10-2011 at 11:10 AM
I was digging for this thread because I just watched the movie based on the book & the documentary last night.....figured someone woulda posted about
it on here. Pretty interesting, I had never heard about this.....I figured I'd see what Dave Moral had to say
DaveMoral - 10-10-2011 at 04:26 PM
Haven't seen the movie. Though someone just sent me my copy of the book I lent him like 6 years ago.