Cheesy Djinn
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
Either a munafiq or a really lousy atheist
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
Beiruti Street Punk!!!!!
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
CNN covers Taqwacore in a Special Report called Generation Islam Tonight
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.
Khalifornia
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
