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The guitar-smashing episode occurred in 2007 after a crowd of Muslim punks were thrown out of the Islamic Society of North America's open-mike night. They had shocked attendants at the meeting - North America's largest annual Muslim gathering - not just by cranking up their amps, swearing and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muslim Punk Rock: A Mashup of Piety and Politics | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

For Knight, punk's rebellious ethos echoes the rebellious spirit of Islam, which, when it began in 7th century Arabia, directly challenged everything from the Meccan economic power structures of the day to the prevailing tribal views on women. Knight's novel opens with a poem, which Poursalehi set to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muslim Punk Rock: A Mashup of Piety and Politics | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Movie phenomena are supposed to occur once in a blue moon, or a new one. Yet for the past couple of weeks, two films, released the same day, targeting similar demographics, have had folks cheering and sobbing and clogging the plexes. Everyone expected The Twilight Saga: New Moon to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Side: What's All the Cheering About? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

What Leigh Anne sees in Michael is a gentle stillness - he's like a Buddha statue transplanted to Tennessee - and she has just the energy to push this soft boulder up the hill of achievement. Checking his school records, she sees he got a 98 in "protective instincts." Why not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Side: What's All the Cheering About? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

Reviewing the movie for Slant, Aaron Cutler goes further: "The ultimate NFL destination renders the whole thing benevolently sadistic: A white community first removes Michael from other black people, then trains him to beat them up on the field." Well, The Blind Side isn't exactly Gladiator. Oher is being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Side: What's All the Cheering About? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

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