The Taqwacores

The Taqwacores

<div>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, €œtaqwacore,€ named for taqwa, an Arabic term for consciousness of the divine.<br />Originally self-published on photocopiers and spiralbound by hand, <em>The Taqwacores</em> has now come to be read as a manifesto for Muslim punk rockers and a €œ<em>Catcher in the Rye</em> for young Muslims.€<br /><br /></div> There are three different cover colors; red, white, and blue.