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. |
