Taqwacore – The Birth of Punk Islam

When somebody who’s Muslim says I wanna fuck you during Ramadan, that is the punkest that it gets

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19/04/2010

When somebody who’s Muslim says I wanna fuck you during Ramadan, that is the punkest that it gets.

Det er min velresearchede overbevisning, at Islam er en anti-demokratisk, homofobisk, kvindefjendsk, slaveri-venlig, morderisk, religionschauvanistisk ideologi. Men det er mig en ubetinget fryd at konstatere, at der er muslimer med en Islam-opfattelse som står diamentralt modsat min egen.
I’ll do what befits my character, conscience, and integrity — as long as it respects the dignity of my fellow human beings. And I won’t let anyone tell me I’m less Muslim for insisting on everyone’s freedom of choice. That’s the message of Islamic punk.

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...the most important similarity is that, like punk, Islam itself is a flag; an open symbol representing not things, but ideas. You can’t hold punk or Islam in your hands. So what could they mean besides what you want them to?


De tre citater i dette indlæg stammer fra filmen Taqwacore - The Birth of Punk Islam, eller fra debatten omkring den film.

Du kan se traileren i linket, som fører til min blog. En trailer som bekræfter Michael Muhammed Knights udsagn om at "there is a cool Islam, you just have to find it".