#taqwacore

[eurevision]

Eurevision category: Taqwacore

Broadly, Taqwacore is punk music with an Islamic bent. After an extra day for submissions (and a broadened category-- now you don't have to just submit taqwacore, rather, any Arab punk), you all came through and posted some great stuff. Thank you. The result is this bloody, messy, fun mix. Vote for which song fights its way out of the mosh pit and onto the stage with the other winners. You have until Saturday night.

The songs:

Jihadi, Jihadi, by Haram

Layla, by The Kominas

Sma3, by Taqbir

There Their They're, by The Muslims

School Revolution, by Voice of Baceprot

Burn the Witch, by Pinkshift

Forced Down Your Throat, by Fearless Iranians from Hell

Anti-Israel, by Troublesome

Twist That Knife, by The Kominas

American Police, by Haram

Aisha Qandisha, by Taqbir

Truth's Eternal Sun, by Al-Thawra

The poll says 'one week,' only because 'three days' is not an option.

[themuslimaharchive]

Allah exposing and rebuking the hypocrites in Madinah, the weak at heart, and the cowardly elements.

Allah is never shy nor hesitant to utterly expose the hearts of the Munafiqeen.

He is Allah.

These verses instil a sense of bravery when read with a heart of Taqwa.

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

I haven’t properly been on tumblr for like pretty much exactly a month (and even then I wasn’t really ON tumblr) and I am back now to give my large (ish) Star Wars following,,,,, absolutely fucking nothing LISTEN

DOMINIC RAINS IN TAQWACORES (the five-ish posts I’ve seen on here about it were mainly by @crockettmarcel so hi I’m tagging you pls talk to me I’m obsessed help)

It took me SO LONG to find it first of all, and then I watched it two nights in a row. Like I’ve already watched it twice. And I JUST impulse ordered the book at my local bookstore because WHAT???

And this isn’t even just about me thinking Dominic Rains is really cool and a great actor anymore (like he is, and he rules in this movie, but his character, the story line, some of the lines, THE ENDING???, Rabeya!!!???, the coming together of two cultures that are so niche and seem so far removed, the alienation, the attempt to connect and come together the the the????)

suffice it to say I have unlocked a new super nice obsession with literally near zero content to satisfy it. Love that for me!!

Side note: if The Taqwacores was a show like the young-Johnny-Depp-21-Jumpstreet it would be fucking viral I just know it. Like it would be so fucking popular and I am so bummed that that didn’t happen actually

[punkerplusone]

Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay - The Kominas

[emma-dennehy-presents]

Getting disgustingly obsessed with the band Voice of Baceprot. Its an Indonesian trio from West Java. Their song School Revolution has been on my radar for a good bit, but only recently started getting to know the bands broader discography after bumping into more songs on a Taqwacore playlist (though i'd personally put them more on the punk influenced metal end of things than straight islamic punk). The work they have put out the last couple years absolutely deserves to be lauded.

Here's two of their older videos, too that I think are def worth the watch

[whatevergreen]

The Taqwacores (2010)

A film based on a novel about a fictionalised Muslim punk scene in the New York area.

Muslim punk apparently dates back to 1979 at least, and is sometimes referred to Taqwacore.

[voidingintotheshout]

Lol, I can’t even be mad, it does totally look like the eye of Sauron. The Saudi government makes me as a Muslim so sad they have destroyed so many historic religious structures to make way for tourism crap. The Saudi government are just a bunch of anti-intellectual buffoons. The house of the Prophet Muhammad’s first wife Khadija bint Khuwaylid was actually preserved until the early 20th century when the spot was ordered to be bulldozed by the Saudi government (an untrue rumor says that some public toilets were built on the spot, but this is not true) some people wanted to preserve it, but the government was worried that this would become a “place of pilgrimage“ and they couldn’t have this so the entire site was leveled, and a school was built on top of it. They can’t have anything be important that isn’t about their control over the space. That clock tower I’m pretty sure is one of the top 20 tallest buildings in the world. I’m pretty sure it was only built so that they could one up Dubai and the Burj Khalifa tower. It is wild to build a tourist attraction in a city where non-Muslims aren’t allowed to be. 

In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s that clock tower which my favorite Muslim punk band The Kominas was singing about in their song “Wal-Qaeda Superstore”

“Muhammad’s home ain’t half as fun

as some ten-story Hilton with a killer view.

Stand at the top you’ll see the Kabba’s

become a Gap Kids and lines of Starbucks

to help make the Hajj a lucrative venture too!”

I love this album.

[punkrocktapedeck]

[[ I WANT A HAND JOB - THE KOMINAS - 2010 ]]

[eurevision]

TAQWACORE SOLICITATION POST

You can also submit taqwacore songs through HERE.

Taqwacore, broadly, is Islamic punk music. If you have a more in-depth description, add it here and I'll credit you. Eurevision defers to musical experts. You will have until 7 PM Central time tomorrow to submit songs. We will run no more than 10 songs against each other.

Please include a link to your song.

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

hi all so I don’t think I told you, but I’ve had the Taqwacore book for like a week now and anyway I just finished it.

excuse me while I crawl under a rock and cry for 13-28 business days before dying of dehydration.

[crockettmarcel]

[warningsine]

For people that genuinely enjoy Lady Parts' music, consider checking out the following bands:

The Kominas

2. Secret Trial Five

3. Vote Hezbollah

("The band name comes from the book ['Taqwacores'] and in no way represents terrorism. Vote Hezbollah does not promote violence or support any violent organizations. Peace, unity, and truth are our only strengths.")

4. Alien Kulture

5. Taqbir, a post punk band "who encourage and empower North African women to be themselves. As members of a society that teaches women to stay silent, obedient, and essentially powerless, Taqbir use their music to create a space for people like themselves to freely express their anger."

"This song is dedicated to my queer people in Morocco."

6. Diacritical

[wilhelm--fink]

Books wishlist

A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher

The Art of Drag

The Art of Invisibility - Kevin Mitnick

Ballet de Sangre - Luis I. Rodríguez

Die Blechtrommel - Günter Grass

Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Los Carpinchos - Alfredo Soderguit

Cicada - Shaun Tan

Confessions of a crap artist - Philip K. Dick

Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of Aides - William Masters

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

Cuando Moctezuma conoció a Cortés - Matthew Restall

La Dame au petit chien - Anton Tchekhov

Designing graphic props for filmmaking - Annie Atkins

El día que los crayones renunciaron - Oliver Jeffers

Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe

Ducks - Kate Beaton

The Ear - Piret Raud

First we read, then we write - Robert D Richardson

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock - Clinton Heylin

Genderqueer: A Memoir - Maia Kobabe

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence - Gavin de Becker

He forgot to say goodbye - Benjamin Alire Saenz

Horns - Joe Hill

How Music Works - David Byrne

Illustrators In & Out

Is there a fish in your ear? - David Bellos

I Want You - Lisa Hanawalt

Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind

Mendel el de los libros - Stefan Zweig

Mirages - Laurent Durieux

Miseria - Suzanne Heller

Pink Lemonade - Nick Cagnetti

Professor Astro Cat's Human Body Odyssey - Dominic Walliman

The Question of German Guilt - Karl Jaspers

Russian Olive to Red King - Kathryn Immonen

Saga - Brain K Vaugn

The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustrarion - Richard Barnett

Something is Killing the Children

The Taqwacores - Michael Muhammad Knight

Tokio ya no nos quiere - Ray Loriga

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There - Eric LaRocca

Us - Sara Soler

Venus in Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

La vida secreta de los mocos - Mariona Tolosa Sisteré

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction - Neil Gaiman

What Moves the Dead - T. Kingfisher

X-Ray Me! - Felicitas Horstschäferyo

You too can have a body like mine - Alexandra Kleeman

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

@saturn-sends-hugs @phantom-of-the-501st tagging y’all on a gif of one of Muzzamil’s lines because they throw in so many good lines on queer subcultures and I low-key (lol actually high-key) need y’all to see this movie

[violentviolette]

Thank you for the insight, you've cleared a lot up for me. The reaction is understandable—I phrased that last ask pretty poorly. You're right that punk being political is neither good nor bad, simply a fact. I don't really have any more direct questions to ask, but was curious about how one would go about being anti-establishment? I'd assume it would vary from person-to-person: some may DIY whilst others may support more smaller, family owned businesses (correct me if I'm wrong). That's something I'd like to learn about more as a lot of things in the world are centred around main/big establishments and corporations, specially when it comes to basic necessities. Overall, if you have sources you'd recommend reading/watching to learn more about the subculture, that'd be great ! Blogs are also fine with me if there are any you'd suggest.

yea, it definitly does vary from person to person but ur right that it's about shifting ur focus away from large corperations and big businesses and putting the power back in the hands of individuals and building community around that. so supporting local places, doing things yourself, volunteering and involving urself directly with ur community, building space for peoples independence and fighting for personal agency and freedom, ect. what that looks like for everyone is different depending on unique factors but the goal is always to be headed in those directions im by no means someone with comprehensive knowledge of things but some of my favorite recommendations that have really stuck with me over the years would be documentaries: the blank generation, the punk rock movie, taqwacore, a band called death, 1991 the year that punk broke movies: SLC Punk, Trainspotting, Suburbia (1983) for reading zines are where its really at. zines have always been a huge part of punk because if their diy self publish nature. tons and tons info, ideas, and the foundations of what punk is and means were created inside the pages of zines and handed out and passed around. it's a huge part of the culture. upthewitchypunx here on tumblr has some amazing stuff and is a great resource to get started with, they've been making zines since 1997 and have so many great resources and zines to get started with archive's are also a great way to find old zines things like the dc punk archive, the punk planet archive, MSU's history of the punk rock movement, and tons of others

as for books, u'll almost definitly come across ppl recommend the anarchist cookbook, which isnt a terrible read but a lot of whats in there is inaccurate except for the sections on explosives hilariously enough lol but so i'd recommend instead recipes for disaster: an anarchist cookbook which is written by an actual long standing anarchist collective and contains a lot more useable info