Taqwacore - Birth of Punk Islam

[GodsavetheQueer]

Ok so I'll admit to not having had the chance to read the entire article, but what i had time to read, i found it interesting and wanted to post a link to the doc, and the site i found out about it on. It's not necessarily religious; way more political, actually. (and shout out to the all female and queer-fronted band in the movement, 'The Secret Trial Five'.)

linkies:

http://www.taqwacore.com/
http://www.afterellen.com/blog/jensabella/lesbians-are-part-of-isla...

[Felicia Genet (Lindsey)]

Excellent...I've never seen this trailer before, I am Muslim and punk.....but I'm American, born and raised in Cali! Love it...Touching all views, thanks sis!

[Lunakiss]

Here's another link to Muslim Punk from of a poster on afterellen.com-www.myspace.com/muslimpunk. I'm listening to this page now. Sounds great.
Thanks for posting this here on Afro-Punk. I feel we all need to support each other.

[Felicia Genet (Lindsey)]

Article aout Muslim Punks http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/apr/28/popandrock.culture

[Felicia Genet (Lindsey)]

I had never heard of any of these groups an hour ago, I just looked them up, they are preety good: info http://talkislam.info/2009/02/25/muslim-punk-rock-taqwacores-movement/

Al Thawra
http://www.myspace.com/althawra

Kominas
http://www.myspace.com/thekominas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3GzbkOwtSY


Sagg Taqwacore
http://www.myspace.com/saggtaqwacoresyndicate

[Christophe Gilmore]

Al-Thawra are really good! I've had the pleasure of seeing them live the last three times they played in Chicago. Three of the nicest guys you'll meet. They should have a new CD out early next year.

[Darkness Unlimited*]

WOW, i love it! And they seem like the REAL deal, too. There's actually alot ov UG sub-kulture through-out many [predominately] Muslim countries, including a particularly nasty Black Metal scene in Iran. Thanks for posting this GodsavetheQueer, hopefully it'll get much uglier!

Here's something else:

[LesYpersound]

cool

[em.ess]

yeah, DEFINTELY JUST came back from the mosque ... gotta go 2 sleep cause i actually have to head out to the mosque tomorrow too. I think this is such an interesting thing, being muslim and punk ...

[Lunakiss]

Thanks Dark Unlimited for that video clip. That band sounds great!

[Christophe Gilmore]

em.ess said:

yeah, DEFINTELY JUST came back from the mosque ... gotta go 2 sleep cause i actually have to head out to the mosque tomorrow too. I think this is such an interesting thing, being muslim and punk ...

'The Taqwacores' written by Michael Muhammad Knight. An excellent read!

http://www.amazon.com/Taqwacores-Michael-Muhammad-Knight/dp/1593762...

Also check his book 'The Five Perventers - Islam, Hip-Hop and The Gods of New York'.

Also 'Heavy Metal Islam' by Mark Levine

http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Metal-Islam-Resistance-Struggle/dp/0307...

[Christophe Gilmore]

Taqwacore on Twitter - http://twitter.com/taqwacore

[Darkness Unlimited*]

Yall should also check out this band. Dark, Ritualistic Jihadist Folk!

http://www.myspace.com/jihadfisabilillah