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Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement
AP ^ | January 2, 2010 | RUSSELL CONTRERAS

Posted on 01/02/2010 10:30:43 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

WAYLAND, Mass. (AP) -- A small but growing South Asian and Middle Eastern punk rock movement is attracting children of Muslim and Hindu immigrants and sparking new bands across America.

Bands like The Kominas (kuh-MEE'-nahs), based in Wayland, Mass., are trying to use their music to explore their identities as Americans and fight stereotypes about South Asian immigrants.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: culturewar; fashionstatement; hindus; islamicpunk; islaminamerica; music; muslims; napl; punkrock
Maybe they cover the Ramones' "We Want the Airwaves."
1 posted on 01/02/2010 10:30:43 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
I can imagine some of their songs:

"My Schwarma"

"Shaheed is a Punk Rocker"

"I Wanna Be Detonated"

"Jihad Thing"

"Allah My Love"


2 posted on 01/02/2010 10:47:03 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: Slings and Arrows

There has to be a variation of “God Save the Queen.”


3 posted on 01/02/2010 10:55:15 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama lies, Freedom dies)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Is there a group called the “Sex Suicide Belts?”


4 posted on 01/02/2010 10:57:11 AM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I Kill You is an upcoming band!!!


5 posted on 01/02/2010 11:20:19 AM PST by mmanager (It is time to prune the tree.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

"Suicide bomb the GAP"

After listening to this song I'm beginning to understand the  suicide thing

6 posted on 01/02/2010 11:56:09 AM PST by grjr21
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To: Slings and Arrows

Their cover of Rock the Casbah is, well, explosive.


7 posted on 01/02/2010 12:40:13 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: grjr21
After listening to this song I'm beginning to understand the suicide thing

It's one way to end the pain, certainly.

8 posted on 01/02/2010 1:05:16 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: martin_fierro
Their cover of Rock the Casbah is, well, explosive.

Number One with a bullet (and several grenades).

9 posted on 01/02/2010 1:12:22 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Don’t forget the newest... “Jihadi in the UK”

Right! NOW! ha ha ha ha ha

I am an anti-christ
I am a jihadist
Don’t know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos I

I wanna BE jihadi!
No dogs body!

Jihadi for the U.K it’s coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line
your future dream is a shopping scheme

cos I, I wanna BE jihadi!
In the city

How many ways to get what you want
I use the best I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use jihadi cos I

I wanna BE jihadi!
THE ONLY WAY TO BE!

Is this the C.A.I.R
Or is this the U.C.L.A
Or is this the P.L.A
I thought it was the U.K or just
another country
another council tenancy

I wanna be jihadi
and I wanna be jihadi
Know what I mean
And I wanna be jihadi!
Get PISSED DESTROY !

Disclaimer: Autumnraine holds no copyright to this fine piece of music set to the tune of Anarchy in the UK.


10 posted on 01/02/2010 1:48:28 PM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

LOL! Allah My Love.
Great stuff!


11 posted on 01/02/2010 2:26:39 PM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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To: Slings and Arrows

The Dead Khomenis

The Circle Jihadis

Green Flag

Really Bad Religion


12 posted on 01/02/2010 2:29:40 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: paulycy

Major Threat

Dirty Rotten Infidels

Millions of Dead Coptics


13 posted on 01/02/2010 2:38:02 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Rome2000; FreedomOfExpression

The Koranimals

The Burqa Jerks

The Car(bomb)s


14 posted on 01/02/2010 3:20:11 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("The solution to every ill is a cat." --TheOldLady)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Bin Laden Youth

The Ululators

Mecca Commandos


15 posted on 01/02/2010 3:37:36 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I wonder how long that will last. I want to see a fight break out on stage


16 posted on 01/02/2010 8:35:59 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one.""-Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: ConservativeStatement

American Pravda is lying by omission again.

There is reportedly a Hindu man in the band in “next time” he’ll get to sing a song in Hindi. No mention whether he ever gets to reference his OWN faith in the songs.

And the American who founded the movement was another lefty who converted to Islam. So post-modern. Just like the American Taliban who came to Islam through hip hop.


18 posted on 01/05/2010 10:21:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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To: ConservativeStatement; 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; ...
Usmani said he grew up as a "nonreligious" Muslim-American so his journey into punk caused few problems, although he admits his family doesn't like the drinking and smoking that pervade the music scene. Khan and Kominas drummer Imran Malik, 25, also said they aren't as observant as their families might like.

"I mean, if you put a sword to us," said Usmani, "one of us might pray."

A GENUINE punk band would write songs ABOUT how the Islamic use of the sword to FORCE persons to submit to theocratic tyranny in WRONG.

That they find outrage over "Gaza" and not Nick Berg or the torching on Hindu temples, Christian churches, and the destruction of ancient Buddhist statues shows all I need to know. They are another supremacist movement. like skinhead hardcore oi.

They are trying to make "sense" of the confusion between eastern "so called" conservativism and Western values. There is no contradiction. Cast off your chains. You are in America now and do not submit to a warlord's deathcult.

19 posted on 01/05/2010 10:28:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Beware the Green Menace, the socialists warning you of global warming under your bed are hysteric.)
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