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Omar Majeed

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Taqwacore: Religion and Music Mix

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Taqwacore is the name for hardcore Muslim punk. Based initially on a 2003 novel by Michael Muhammed Knight, "The Taqwacores," the concept has become something of an underground movement in the U.S. But are the tenets of Islam (or, really, any religion) mutually exclusive from the tenets of punk rock? ...