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I’m a poser: A thesis statement
Im an absolute fucking wannabe, I want to make that clear. Like I listen to punk music, but I listen to every music and if I hung around the DIY scene and shit it was as the mostly normy friend who hung out in a corner couldn’t understand the band and drank jack and cokes while the real punks slammed and shook and rattled in the pit. I was there when shit got thrown at cops, or gas stations got trashed, but I was the dude driving the car and telling everyone to chill and that we have to get out of here or we’ll get in trouble. I didn’t even get addicted in a cool way, more of a strung out alchy no one wanted to be around them a cool fun party dude.
I tried to get married and settle down and the most punk thing about me is that when it blew up in my face I got some tattoos and put together a battle vest to wear my heart on my sleeve because the last time I had my own personality those are the things I wanted to do. I go around in safety pinned patches and ripped up band tees and faded jeans now but I’m going grey dude, I’m not fooling anyone but who the fuck cares? I like the look, it feels like me. Fuck you I don’t gotta justify myself, but I don’t want anyone to think I’m deluded either. I’m a poser, whatever I’m still happy to be here
I’m a wannabe Muslim too, like the total cliche where I read The Taqwacores and some Rumi and House of Birds, watched a few YouTube videos, and took my Shahada. Now I’m a white boy walking around in a Kufi, and when I manage to pray it’s alongside the same two rakat YouTube video I found after googling “how to pray salat”. I ended up cooking myself spam and eggs this morning because “Eh I gotta get it out of the kitchen” and I’m a fag who lives with his boyfriend and has no intention of going celibate.
But I guess here’s the thing, I love *being* Muslim. When I took the Shahada and a whole room of complete strangers rushed in to hug me like I didn’t look like a bum who wandered in off the street, when I read the Quran and say my prayers I feel right. And I’m an addict, I know when I’m just chasing dopamine. This feels like love, and the real kinda love I didn’t know till I met my boyfriend. And so what if I’m lousy, maybe I’ll get better? Maybe I don’t have to? I haven’t figured it out yet. But I keep reading the same bit of the second Surah 2:62:
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَٱلَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟ وَٱلنَّصَـٰرَىٰ وَٱلصَّـٰبِـِٔينَ مَنْ ءَامَنَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ وَعَمِلَ صَـٰلِحًا فَلَهُمْ أَجْرُهُمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ وَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ Indeed, the believers, Jews, Christians, and Sabians1—whoever ˹truly˺ believes in Allah and the Last Day and does good will have their reward with their Lord. And there will be no fear for them, nor will they grieve.2
I dunno it just seems like maybe Allah in his own way loves posers too. So yeah I’m posting this and pinning this because I want to make clear to anyone who finds this blog that I’m not claiming to be anything cool, or pious. I’m some dude aping Michael Muhammad Knight who’s never gonna be a badass punk or manage strict religious living. I’m a bum who does Dhikr and reads beat poetry and sufi poetry with the same reverence. Who’s trying to pray five times a day and doing okay at it. Who’s trying to figure out what punk means when you’re 31 and the whole world seems like it’s coming apart and I’ve decided to write about it sometimes.
I think thesis statements are important and I think the Quran has the best one. Maybe we begin by praising Allah in their mercy because in the end even the Wahabis and the Twelvers are posers. Maybe the strict Imam at your Masjid telling you to get rid of your dog is a wannabe. Maybe Allah knows we’re all kinda cringe and gave us the Fatiha to remember that they love us anyway.
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Shout out to all the punk hijabis out there, yall cool 🤘🏽‼️
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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.
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Dominic Rains as Jehangir Tabari in The Taqwacores film (2010) dir. Eyad Zahra
#The Taqwacores#thetaqwacoresedit#Taqwacore#Punk#punkedit#Islam#Muslim#muslimedit#islamedit#filmedit#tvandfilm#dailyfilmgifs#Goth#Muslim Punk#Alternative#Allah#My Gif#Jehangir Tabari#Dominic Rains#pocedit#Mohawk#Persian#Arabic#userstream#userbbelcher#chewieblog#throwbackblr#usermichi#This scene was so powerful I loved it
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Attempted to draw an undead punk hijabi :P
Just named her Samira cuz that used to be my number 1 fake name for when annoying people asked for it XD
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#eid mubarak#punk#eid#muslim#islam#islamic#eid ul fitr#taqwacore#muslims#ramadan mubarak#ramadhan#ramzan#eid 2024#eid al fitr#punk rock#punk music#punk aesthetic#punk muslim#muslim punk#eid mubarak wishes#ramdan#ramadan 2024#ameen#my post#Spotify
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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.
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Here's two of their older videos, too that I think are def worth the watch
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#voice of baceprot#VOB#taqwacore#Youtube#islamic metal#muslim metal#islamic punk#muslim punk#metal music#heavy metal#punk music#punk
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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.
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[[ I WANT A HAND JOB - THE KOMINAS - 2010 ]]
#the kominas#the taqwacores#ugh this song goes hard#despite its chill ass ska beat. er. because of?? anyway ANYWAY ANYWAY.#punk#2010#Youtube
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kominas shilling is working one of my irls is a fan and he even watched the taqwacores (i havent even done that!)
you, too, can listen to the kominas. lemme make it easy for you
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How’s my pride month going? Well I was considering just not going to any events this year because I can’t afford Plate Carriers for my partner and I. He talked me down from my paranoia though, I’ll settle for a full IFAK two C-A-Ts and chest seals. Haha my goodness being Queer in the 21st century is expensive isn’t it? And this will be my first pride as a Muslim, I’m sure the lgbtq+ community is going to be really welcoming and friendly 😅
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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
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
Designing graphic props for filmmaking - Annie Atkins
Die Blechtrommel - Günter Grass
Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Ducks - Kate Beaton
El día que los crayones renunciaron - Oliver Jeffers
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
La Dame au petit chien - Anton Tchekhov
La vida secreta de los mocos - Mariona Tolosa Sisteré
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
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
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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.
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I just found out about taqwacore and islamic punk revolution
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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
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