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Article: Slam Dancing for Allah; Muslim punk rock--it's not as bizarre as it sounds.
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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Byline: Matthew Philips
It's near midnight in a small Fairfax, Va., bar, and Omar Waqar stands on a makeshift stage, brooding in a black tunic and brown cap. He stops playing his electric guitar long enough to survey the crowd--an odd mix of local punks and collared preps--before screaming into the microphone: "Stop the hate! Stop the hate!" Stopping hate is a fairly easy concept to get behind at a punk-rock show, and the crowd yells and pumps its fists right on cue. But it's safe to say that Waqar and his band, Diacritical, aren't shouting about the same kind of hate as the audience. Waqar wants to stop the kind that made people call him "sand flea" as a kid and ...
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Article: Punk rock en espanol.
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA);
January 23, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... music. Enter the generation of Spanish punk rock, a phase of punk that is Southern California to the core. Punk rock bands from Orange and Los Angeles counties ... But don't expect all of the Spanish punk rock bands to be carbon copies of each other ...
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