The Kominas

Snapshots from the Muslim-Punk Underground

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This week on Studio 360, Nick Heling talks to Muslim punk rockers The Kominas about taqwacore, the movement inspired by novelist Michael Muhammad Knight’s 2002 novel The Taqwacores. Photographer Kim Badawi met Knight shortly after Taqwacores was published, and in 2006 began tagging along on tours with taqwa bands The Kominas and Secret Trial Five, […]

The Taqwacores

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The Kominas

Stereotypes — this Muslim punk band tries to break ’em and highlight ’em

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Global Hit: The Kominas

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