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For example, the Kominas, a Punjabi taqwacore punk band, sport mohawks and tattoos as they thrash on stage singing Suicide Bomb the Gap.
Wajahat Ali: The Redefining of Muslim Art by The Obama Generation 2009
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Update: The Kominas at a house party in Somerville yay!
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2008
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The bands vary in sound, polish and success: the Kominas 'funk-infused Bollywood songs have been on rotation on the BBC, while sounds of explosions and gunfire punctuate Arabic chanting on the MySpace page of Al-Thawra.
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Movements such as Taqwacore, a burgeoning Islamic punk-rock scene, and music groups such as the Kominas challenge both radical Islam and post-9/11 religious profiling with in-your-face lyrics, hard guitar riffs and screeching vocals.
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Movements such as Taqwacore, a burgeoning Islamic punk-rock scene, and music groups such as the Kominas challenge both radical Islam and post-9/11 religious profiling with in-your-face lyrics, hard guitar riffs and screeching vocals.
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Malik from the Kominas understands it as the idea of a complicated Islam.
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"There never really was a scene," says Imran Malik, of the Kominas, a so-called Taqwacore band from New Jersey, whose music features prominently on the movie soundtrack.
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In "Mapping The Translocal Taqwacore Social Networks to Digital Humanities," Wendy Hsu found out where all the My Space friends of American Islamic ska-punk-Bollywood band The Kominas (who sound really good) are clustered; bringing up the crazy question of when your fanbase is mostly not anywhere near where you live (hello, Kultur Shock!).
The KEXP Blog Chris Estey 2010
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In "Mapping The Translocal Taqwacore Social Networks to Digital Humanities," Wendy Hsu found out where all the My Space friends of American Islamic ska-punk-Bollywood band The Kominas (who sound really good) are clustered; bringing up the crazy question of when your fanbase is mostly not anywhere near where you live (hello, Kultur Shock!).
The KEXP Blog Chris Estey 2010
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I couldn't do it alone - The Kominas (www. komin.as) are my camera crew.
WN.com - Articles related to Bollywood star bites back with satire 2010
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