#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.

[crockettmarcel]

[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

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

For the character ask: seeing as you were just talking about him Jesse or (idk how much you're still into this film but I think it would he fun) your favourite Taqwacores character

Both? Both is good.

Jesse:

favorite thing about them

my love for Jesse is mainly a vibes thing? like he lives in fanon for me. he just seems like a good bro. good bear hugs probably. i also see him being the guy that curses the most

least favorite thing about them

NOT ENOUGH SCREENTIME (also something something o66 but we don’t subscribe to that trope on this blog actually)

favorite line

“No recon? No air-support? We don’t know what we’re up against!” —> because i love him rising up against krell (also everything else he said in the umbara arc)

Honourable mention: “Where there’s a farm, there’s usually a farmer.”

brOTP

KIX

ОТР

i love him being a whore actually. i need him and kix to be with a different person every night. they are both bi. or pan. whatever. if it’s consenting they are fucking it.

nOTP

any clone honestly, im not a clone shipper. generally, i don’t ship him with any canon characters

Random headcanon

he’s the type of guy that cusses, drinks, smokes, fucks, but also sweet as shit, will give you his coat and know when you need a hug or a coffee. just,, good bro. in a modern au he’d be punk.

unpopular opinion

i don’t think i have one? like i said, im just here for his vibe lol

song i associate with them

Jessie’s Girl hahahahahaha

favorite picture of them

Jehangir:

favorite thing about them

his dichotomy. this is even more evident in the book, from Yusuf’s point of view. Yusuf glorifies Jehangir, seeing him as this vision, this enigma, the one guy who might actually have it all figured out. this goal that seems unreachable. but then he gets incoherently drunk, or has a bunch of one night stands and both Yusuf and Jehangir question how good of a person he actually is

that perfect imperfection does it for me. he tries to figure it out, to do good, but he’s so human in the midst of it all

least favorite thing about them

his dichotomy. (see above ☝️)

favorite line

i lent the book to a friend of mine, but once i have it back i will reblog this with about 20 quotes lololol

brOTP

Yusuf!!

ОТР

rabeya (I guess?)

nOTP

fatima

random headcanon

don’t know if this is a headcanon or just canon, but he has a super sick style and is really fucking hot, but he doesn’t believe that himself (actually i think it’s canon, yea, lololol)

unpopular opinion

again, idk, there isn’t really a fandom for this i feel? so it’s hard to have an unpopular opinion. but generally, Jehangir is like the embodiment of punk, and part of the point of punk is to get people angry, so just liking Jehangir as a character could be seen as like a negative?? idk?

song i associate with them

anything punk, really. mainly, “bad reputation”, “american idiot”, “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and a bunch of other stuff. I also sometimes think of him when listening to maneskin

favorite picture of them

(i lov him hihi <3)

[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

[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

[inkstainedhandswithrings]

(@saturn-sends-hugs @phantom-of-the-501st in reference to the previous post)

so you understand what I mean when I say THE WARDROBE??? my alternative kinda emo, kinda punk, kinda won’t fit just one demographic style is SO IMPORTANT to me and such a big part of my heart and seeing one of my FAVOURITE ACTORS in these kinda clothes???

and then his character is just so true to the alt scene and the movies is SO GOOD and some of these liiiiinnnnnneeeessss brooooo!!!

“I’m too wrapped up in my mismatching of disenfranchised subcultures.” - Dominic Rains as Jehangir

LIKE WHAT BRO THAT GOES SO HARD

Bobby Naderi as Yusef

Dominic Rains as Jehangir 

Nav Mann as Umar

Volkan Eryman as Amazing Ayyub

Ian Tran as Fasiq

Tony Yalda as Muzzamil

Noureen DeWulf as Rabeya 

Rasika Mathur as Fatima

THE TAQWACORES 2010