5.22.2009

QTV Interviews Mike Knight and Omar Majeed on "Taqwacore"

Only posted a week ago, this video features an interview of Mike Knight, the author of The Taqwacores, and Omar Majeed, the maker of a documentary film based on the lives of the taqwacore bands.

Knight and Majeed offer an insight on the state of taqwacore in reality and in principles. They talk about their personal experiences of soul-searching in pre- and post-911 as Muslim youth, wanting to find an "alternative Muslim voice." Their take-home message, I think, is that taqwacore is not a social movement. Instead it is a safe environment in which Muslims of diverse relationships to Islam can be themselves with personal and social integrity, a healthy context to reconcile differences such as rock music and Muslim parents. A couple of memorable quotes from the interview:

Mike Knight: “I realized that I’d rather be inside the mosque urinating out than to be outside the mosque urinating in.”

Omar Majeed: “There's a lot of attention on how should Islam be defined. Maybe the point is to undefined it.”

This 18-minute interview video is worth watching in its entirety. I'd be curious to know what individuals associated with the taqwacore label think about it.

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