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		<title>SURPRISE KOMINAS SHOW AFTER BOSTON PREMIERE AT IFFBOSTON</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam is having its Boston Premiere tomorrow night at the IFFBOSTON (Independent Film Festival of Boston).  It&#8217;s playing at the Somerville 4 theatre in Somerville, MA at 7:15 followed by a Q&#38;A with The Kominas, Michael Muhammad Knight, and myself (the filmmaker).
And after that &#8211; the KOMINAS bring the noise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOTE KOMINAS!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Message from The Kominas (straight from the mothership&#8230;):
In case you haven&#8217;t heard the news yet&#8230;We have been nominated by the Boston Phoenix as Boston&#8217;s best punk band, so we&#8217;re asking you guys to support us during the online ballot this month. The winner gets some really great Boston shows and other goodies, so we&#8217;d really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INFLUENCES&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out My Film Blog on:
http://taqwacore.myfilmblog.com/index.php
Where I&#8217;m posting about the various influences that went into making TAQWACORE: The Birth of Punk Islam.

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		<title>MY FILM BLOG</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve taken the invitation to join the bloggers over at Lorber Films on the My Film Blog website.  I will be posting my filmmakers blog through My Film Blog and will be posting announcements and aggragating other relevant Taqwacore news here.  Please feel free to check out my first entry on highlights from our showcase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAQWACORE PUNKS BRING KHALIFA TO KHANADA</title>
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Message from Basim Usmani:


The banks of Lake Ontario will turn red on March 11th. The Kominas return to the Great White North for Canadian Music Week 2010.  They&#8217;d previously annexed the T-Dot at the El Mocambo following the premiere of the documentary   TAQWACORE: The Birth of Punk Islam (taqwacore.com) last November.  These Boston-based taqwa-punks sliced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIG IN SWEDEN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So very very cool.  The SENSURROUND Music Film Festival is Malmoe, Sweden is having a screening of TAQWACORE: The Birth of Punk Islam.  Two graffiti artists, Joakim Starkenberg and Osian Theselius, have transfered the wall of a parking lot into a piece of Taqwa-Art promoting the screening on the 25th of feb at Inkonst in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HARSH WORDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first six months that TAQWACORE: The Birth of Punk Islam has played in theatres and festivals across the globe, people are dying to ask me the same question.  It either takes the form of &#8220;Have you gotten any death threats?&#8221;  or &#8220;Have you received a fatwa?&#8221; or &#8220;What do Muslims think of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPIN MAGAZINE CHOOSES TAQWACORE AS BEST MUSIC DOC OF 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2009 draws to a close, and everyone is making frantic year-end lists, I&#8217;m pleased as punch to see TAQWACORE: The Birth of Punk Islam make it onto Spin&#8217;s Best Music Doc List for 2009.  Check out the link below:
http://spinearth.tv/report/2009s-best-music-documentaries


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		<title>SHOUT OUT TO EYAD ZAHRA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congrats to Eyad Zahra on his fictional film adaptation of Michael Muhammad Knight&#8217;s novel THE TAQWACORES getting into Sundance 2010.  I&#8217;m lucky to be among the few who&#8217;ve seen this film, it&#8217;s an excellent adaptation, and is going to have an amazing impact on the culture and direction of Taqwacore in general.  I urge everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAQWACORE IN AMSTERDAM &#8212; PART TWO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amsterdam had many powerful moments.  There was smoking a cigarrette with punk director Julien Temple and talking about the Detroit auto industry (subject of his next project), and then having my film play before his excellent doc Oil City Confidential in the ROCUMENTARIES program.  There were the sold-out screenings, and the various parties on the EyeSteelFilm houseboat, and the ready-to-order hash joints and all that fun stuff.

But what has been sticking with me is an encounter a had with a young Muslim man I met during a screening. ]]></description>
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