Is Punk Islam Dead?

I hated the Taqwacores, yet I liked it. M. Knight is a great writer, but a lot of it was hard to digest. I wanted to burn the book, several times while reading it. 

I went through a mini-punk phase, where I’d call myself straight-edge, blah blah blah, because it’s easy to embrace that ideology within an Islamic context. But I was not a “Muslim Punk”. Nowhere near it. And punk is so hard to define. And I don’t care enough about it, especially when people look for every opportunity to call you out. I also am really materialistic and shallow, so I can’t be punk. Does not compute.

I think Taqwacores has been adapted by people as an excuse for every criticism they have to offer for Islam. And you can’t do that. You simply can’t. You need to study, and read, and educate yourself, and then formulate your opinion. Dissenting opinions offer a lively discussion, but you can’t say some things in Islam are illogical, just to assuage your guilt. You can’t. You have no credibility to say “I don’t think weed should be haram. I don’t think premarital sex should be haram” Why? You have no basis to say that, only your selfish desires fueling your dissonance which cause you to make stupid statements. Islam is a foundation, and you cannot chip away at some part because YOU feel that it doesn’t fit your ideals. 

I’m rambling on. But it goes along with how disenchanted even M. Knight is with the Taqwacore movement. It’s dead. 

Also, Umar was my favorite character in the book. Goes to show.

Lynn was the most useless. And her arguments for praying in shorts was dumb. Really, frustatingly, mind-bendingly, dumb.

I know a girl who dresses EXACTLY like her in the movie. It only works if you look like Winona Ryder. Chuh.

I know a girl who dresses EXACTLY like her in the movie. It only works if you look like Winona Ryder. Chuh.

Wino Profile Appreciation

Wino Profile Appreciation

The Curse of the Reality Bites DVD

So, I got Reality Bites from Netflix in March. When I was younger I thought it was Reality Bytes. Ben Stiller directed it.

I ordered it because I thought it would get me out of my post-grad slump. Like these are people my age, and I will take notes on what they do.

Well, it didn’t. The only person I found myself relating to was Ben Stiller. Which says a lot about me. 

And I guess Winona Ryder when she becomes bitchy and says nasty things to Vicky and chain smokes all day. 

I wanted to punch Ethan Hawke for being so delusional, and poetic, and pretty. For not selling out to the man. For stealing a fucking candy bar. And working in a newspaper stand. So fucking irritating.

It was the 90s. I should be forgiving. I should also return the fucking movie and not watch it every chance I get. 

The only thing I got from that movie was Wino’s makeup. I got lipstick similar to the shade she wore. 

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my life goals too

my life goals too

kindelling: The Afghan girls who live as boys For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys. When Azita Rafhat, a former member of the Afghan parliament, gets her daughters ready for school, she dresses one of the girls differently. Three of her daughters are clothed in white garments and their heads covered with white scarves, but a fourth girl, Mehrnoush, is dressed in a suit and tie. When they get outside, Mehrnoush is no longer a girl but a boy named Mehran. Azita Rafhat didn’t have a son, and to fill the gap and avoid people’s taunts for not having a son, she opted for this radical decision. It was very simple, thanks to a haircut and some boyish clothes. … Girls brought up as boys do not stay like this all their lives. When they turn 17 or 18 they live life as a girl once again - but the change is not so simple. Elaha lives in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan. She lived as a boy for 20 years because her family didn’t have a son and reverted only two years ago when she had to go to university. However, she does not feel fully female: she says her habits are not girlish and she does not want to get married. “When I was a kid my parents disguised me as a boy because I didn’t have a brother. Until very recently, as a boy, I would go out, play with other boys and have more freedom.” She has returned reluctantly to her gender and says she has done it only because of the social traditions. “If my parents force me to get married, I will compensate for the sorrows of Afghan women and beat my husband so badly that he will take me to court every day.”

kindelling:

The Afghan girls who live as boys

For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys.

When Azita Rafhat, a former member of the Afghan parliament, gets her daughters ready for school, she dresses one of the girls differently.

Three of her daughters are clothed in white garments and their heads covered with white scarves, but a fourth girl, Mehrnoush, is dressed in a suit and tie. When they get outside, Mehrnoush is no longer a girl but a boy named Mehran.

Azita Rafhat didn’t have a son, and to fill the gap and avoid people’s taunts for not having a son, she opted for this radical decision. It was very simple, thanks to a haircut and some boyish clothes.

…

Girls brought up as boys do not stay like this all their lives. When they turn 17 or 18 they live life as a girl once again - but the change is not so simple.

Elaha lives in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan. She lived as a boy for 20 years because her family didn’t have a son and reverted only two years ago when she had to go to university.

However, she does not feel fully female: she says her habits are not girlish and she does not want to get married.

“When I was a kid my parents disguised me as a boy because I didn’t have a brother. Until very recently, as a boy, I would go out, play with other boys and have more freedom.”

She has returned reluctantly to her gender and says she has done it only because of the social traditions.

“If my parents force me to get married, I will compensate for the sorrows of Afghan women and beat my husband so badly that he will take me to court every day.”

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I don’t get how Richard Armitage, Guy of Gisbourne, will be playing Thorin Oakenshield.

I mean, obviously, he is playing him…but the guy is like 6 feet tall.

Does not compute.

God, that show was good. I loved Jonas Armstrong. And the brown chick.

Technically, you could sing “now you’re just somebody that i used to blow”

right?

Inappropriate?

It’s really fucking scary how EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE in Chicago.

I should rejoice and revel in my anonymity. And remember to keep my mouth shut. You don’t know who’s watching. xoxo you know you love me gossip girl

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