Taqwacore: Islam punk

There's a new documentary out called Taqwacore that is about Islamic American punk (and hip hop and other things). Apparantly some dude wrote a fictional book that made connections between Islam's history and Punk's, which was then widelt read and lead to a real life movement of Islamic (I believe mostly North American Islamic) bands.

Has anyone heard any of them? The ones listed on the wikipedia include: The Kominas, Vote Hezbollah and the Sagg Taqwacore Syndicate, Diacritical, Secret Trial Five, and Fedayeen.

Trailer to the doc here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkaqHhmpws

Looks slightly like they're trying very hard to force some of the "badass"ness of the scene, although in my mind there is nothing wrong with and in fact something kind of awesome about a band of Muslim Americans singing a song that goes "I am the anti-christ! I am the anti-christ!" especially when you consider that the white kids in the neighborhood over are probably starting a crabcore band.

Has anyone seen/heard anything about the film yet?

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Hi!
Have not read the book or seen the film but the Al-Thawra album is the most interesting i've heard from the Taqwacore scene. The other bands i've heard sounded pretty mainstream punk but i've not really delved too deeply into it. Somebody should make a movie about the black metal scene in Iran.

Black metal in Iran? Can you recommend me some stuff?

I have this book but I haven't read it:

http://www.meaning.org/hmi/bookcover.jpg

Aras, Halla, Evoke Efrits have all done some pretty interesting stuff. All seem to be one man projects ala Xasthur and geared at blogs as the primary vehicle for spreading their stuff. There's been alot of these guys coming up over the last few years and some even make it to physical release stage but the guys in Iran seem to have a harder time getting stuff out (or even posted into the country after release, hence them being cool with 'blog releases').
Shaytan Productions is probably the best place to get actual releases from if you are in the states.
Getting a bit sidetracked here as metal is HUGE with kids in Islamic countries so could probably be here all day...
Have you heard any of the other Taqwacore stuff? I'm curious what other people think of it, as a Muslim myself I am a bit conflicted as to whether it serves a positive purpose or not - will have to wait until I see the movie before making too much of a judgement though I guess :)

That book looks interesting Reverend, let us know what it's like

This is very interesting. I'd like to hear more!

I've now seen the movie. Although the scene is an interesting one, the dude who wrote the book that was the catalyst for all of these bands (Michael Muhammad Knight) is a self-aggrandizing opportunist douche bag. The documentary really comes to life whenever he is off camera.

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Hey, wassup? This is Abu Taha, of Fedayeen. ( www.myspace.com/fedayeentaqwacore ) any questions on the Taqwacore scene, just hit me up on myspace. Our EP is out in 2 weeks, and it's free! Just message me on myspace with your address and we'll hook you up.
Salaams.