[Will88]

‘For many young American Muslims, stigmatized by their peers after the Sept. 11 attacks but repelled by both the Bush administration’s reaction to the attacks and the rigid conservatism of many Muslim leaders, the novel became a blueprint for their lives.”

Might be the beginning of a movement, or just a bunch of kids doing their rebellion thing. But Islam cannot be reformed. It’s just too rigid. They’ll have to scrap big chunks of it and then pretend that it’s still Islam for the sake of cultural pride.

[visualops]

I don't think this is the kind of movement we want...

The novel’s Muslim characters include Rabeya, a riot girl(sic) who plays guitar onstage wearing a burqa...
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Told that no such bands existed, some of them created their own, with names like Vote Hezbollah and Secret Trial Five.
One band, the Kominas, wrote a song called “Suicide Bomb the Gap,” which became Muslim punk rock’s first anthem.

[weegee]

What is it that makes someone convert from Catholicism to Islam and then become “disillusioned” with what became of Islam after Mohammed?