# TAQWACORE WEBZINE

### Cheesy Djinn

Posted by falafelwarrior on August 31, 2009 · 2 Comments

Normally, I hate horror flicks. It’s not that I get scared of them or anything, but I just get bored of their predictable plots, one-dimensional characters, etc. etc. While everyone else in the theater would be clutching their date at every sudden movement couple with abrupt sound effects, I’d be in the back with my … Read more

Filed under Editorial, Film, Rants

### Either a munafiq or a really lousy atheist

Posted by basimkanjar on August 22, 2009 · 14 Comments

Ramazan has always been good to me in America. In Lahore, the month always made me very bitter towards Muslims – offices would open at noon and close before sunset, which during the winter made for five hour work days. Everyone besides laborers would take advantage of the holiday to shirk work, and bring the … Read more

Filed under Editorial · Tagged with atheism, god, Islam, munafiq, nafz, no god, one god, ramazan, taqwacore

### Beiruti Street Punk!!!!!

Posted by taqwacore on August 18, 2009 · 8 Comments

From the streets of Beirut, fresh with scars of Israeli bombing, comes Detox. While we (the Taqwacores) were worrying about doing cross-genre collaborations, this group of Lebanese punks is keeping the flame of true punk alive in the Middle East. This is what punk is supposed to be: grimy, unapologetic, and pissed-off, complete with shouted … Read more

Filed under Editorial · Tagged with lebanon punk middle eastern street punk middle east beirut arabic

### CNN covers Taqwacore in a Special Report called Generation Islam Tonight

Posted by imran on August 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Taqwacore Christiane Amanpour’s special report tonight on CNN called Generation Islam at 9:00 PM. Taqwacore is covered in it. We’ll see what CNN has to say about it.

Filed under Editorial · Tagged with CNN, Michael Muhammad Knight, Muslim Punk, taqwacore, The Kominas

### Khalifornia

Posted by basimkanjar on August 1, 2009 · 2 Comments

We finally rolled into Khalifornia yesterday, and played Lake Tahoe and the Mission District within 24 hours of each other. Lake Tahoe was scenic, but there was a strange festering negativity I felt everywhere. Overgrown surf jokes (I mean jocks) were everywhere, at the show some weirdo kept trying to hold me down and kiss … Read more

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