false <![CDATA[The Taqwacores]]> 745121 4 Set in a Muslim punk-house in Buffalo, New York, this novel explores the twin identities of punk and Islam in their many varieties and degrees of orthodoxy. The story here is primarily with the characters &#151; Umar, the straight-edge Sunni; Rabeya, the burqa-clad riot grrl; Jehangir, the dope-smoking mohawked Sufi (who plays rooftop calls-to-prayer on his electric guitar) &#151; and their collective articulation of a heresy-friendly, pluralist Islam. Full of punk references (real and invented) and enough Arabic phrases to fully deck out your skateboard, The Taqwacores is a great introduction to the cracks in the surface of mainstream Islam with a peculiarly American face. 731270 10 4 2005 The Taqwacores: A Novel total:143|5:30|4:44|3:46|2:19|1:4| 143 506 343 54 5 3 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 18:01:19 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 18:10:01 -0800 2009 The Catcher In the Rye for Muslims, to whom I say: oh, fuck off. You lose a hundred poi...more...]]> 4 5 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 24 10:59:21 -0800 2008 Thu May 07 06:13:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 12:14:48 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 12:20:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 01:02:37 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 09:16:27 -0700 2009
1. people practise Islam are varying levels, know Islam at different depths....

2. no one can claim to be better than another - everyone is a work-in-progress - being judgemental or critical just breed resentment.

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Were The Taqwacores a novella, Knight’s continual...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 16:12:17 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 20:05:40 -0800 2009 Catcher in the Rye for Muslims was one of the things I'd heard. Now, I didn't like Catcher, but that doesn't mean I'd hate this.

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But first, you are going to have to check your anti-Muslim biases, your western-centric points of view, your right-wing or pro-Christian rhetoric, your music snobbery, your squeamishness and y...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 14:35:20 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 11:36:23 -0700 2009
I found the book very interesting. It is a first person tale from the point of view of Yusef, a Pakistani-America...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 23 06:23:18 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 16 10:54:12 -0700 2009 this interview author knight says he's continued to identify as muslim because he'd "rather be in the mosque urinating out than outside the mosque urinating in." and that delicate preference gives the book its permission and power to radically deal with islam.

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