The TaqwaCores !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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OP - January 15, 2011, 05:40 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzlsLCkMJpI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkaqHhmpws

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Yusef, a first-generation Pakistani engineering student, moves off-campus with a group of Muslim punks in Buffalo, New York. His new "un-orthodox" house mates soon introduce him to Taqwacore- a hardcore, Muslim punk rock scene that only exists out west. As the seasons change, Taqwacore influences the house more and more. The living room becomes a mosque during the day, while it continues to host punk parties at night. Ultimately, Yusef is influenced by Taqwacore too, as he begins to challenge his own faith and ideologies. The Taqwacores deals with the complexities of being young and Muslim in modern-day America.

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I just totally wanna party with them !!!!!!

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Reply #1 - January 15, 2011, 05:42 PM

There was also a character in the movie who is a hardcore feminist that wears the burqa .....in the movie whilst having sex she still doesn't remove it ! AWESOME!

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Reply #2 - January 15, 2011, 05:49 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrypdueIJew

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Reply #3 - January 15, 2011, 11:05 PM

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"There is a cool Islam , you just gotta find it " - Muhammed Knight

He has quite an enigmatic personality.

I looked up some additional info on him, and found that he was a Five Percenter who converted to Shi'a Islam.

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Reply #4 - January 15, 2011, 11:33 PM

Reading about the 5%'ers blew my mind

So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
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Reply #5 - January 16, 2011, 02:03 AM

ok that movie looks awesome.

I wish parents everywhere could remove their veil of religion and see their kids for whom they actually are.
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Reply #6 - January 16, 2011, 10:47 AM

Quote from: deusvult on January 15, 2011, 11:33 PM
Reading about the 5%'ers blew my mind

You would think "The Nation of Gods and Earths" has a tolerant ring to it...

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Reply #7 - January 21, 2011, 04:17 AM

Quote from: TheCuteRebel on January 15, 2011, 05:40 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkaqHhmpws

lol anyone else see that black guy (@1:16) look like he's holding/strumming a guitar while saying instruments are forbidden in islam

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Reply #8 - July 14, 2013, 08:14 AM

I'm SO gonna get this movie

Found this interesting page with the parts left out of the UK version of the novel:

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You want to be Muslim? I’m so Muslim I can take a shit on Bukhari and wipe my ass with the Muwatta. I can say that Muhammad ate a fat dick and it doesn’t even matter because he’s dead and Allah’s alive.”
“How can you—”
“Because la ilaha illa Allah, that’s how. I’m so Muslim, fuck Islam.” He did not speak in a mean or cynical way—to the contrary, fuck Islam danced out his lips with the same romanticism as his deep drunken spiels. “I’m so Muslim, fiqh is worthless. No madrassa of imperfect human beings can claim ownership of my deen. Allah’s not entrusting the alims with shit. Let them give their jerk-off fatwas about how long a man’s beard should be, fuck all of ‘em.”
“So what are you,” I asked, “an agnostic?”
“No, I’m a Muslim. But if anything, agnosticism is the real Islam; because you’re waiting for answers from Allah Herself, not Imam Siraj Dickhead.”

More good stuff in there
http://www.autonomedia.org/taqwa_censorship

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Reply #9 - August 01, 2013, 03:40 PM

Pity it was left out of the UK version. Not a fan of censorship.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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