A Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York, inhabited by
burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked Sufis, straightedge
Sunnis, Shi’a skinheads, Indonesian skaters, Sudanese rude
boys, gay Muslims, drunk Muslims, and feminists. Their
living room hosts parties and prayers, with a hole smashed
in the wall to indicate the direction of Mecca. Their life
together mixes sex, dope, and religion in roughly equal
amounts, expressed in devotion to an Islamo-punk subculture,
“taqwacore,” named for taqwa, an Arabic term for
consciousness of the divine.
Originally self-published on photocopiers and spiralbound by
hand, The Taqwacores has now come to be read as a manifesto
for Muslim punk rockers and a “Catcher in the Rye for young
Muslims.”
There are three different cover colors; red, white, and blue.
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