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...first articulated a vision for a Muslim punk scene in 2002, when he wrote a novel about it called The Taqwacores. (The title combines the words taqwa, Arabic for "higher consciousness," and core, from hardcore.) He then received an e-mail from a 16-year-old Texan Muslim, Kourosh Poursalehi, who was in a band called Vote Hezbollah, asking how he could get in touch with the mohawked Sufis, skater punks, burqa-wearing riot grrrls and skinhead Shi'ites in the book. When Knight told him it was fiction, Poursalehi responded, "Well, then I'll make it real." With Knight...
...wait until a massive terrorist attack exacts a greater toll? Have we not learned the lessons of our tolerance for evil ideologies such as communism and Nazism? Let us learn from history and prevent disaster rather than try to deal with it after it has been brought upon us. KOUROSH AZADI Calabasas, Calif...
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