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Taqwacores by Michael Muhammad Knight
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So tedious. I really couldn't wait for this book to end, but I am giving it 3 stars because it exposed me to ideas I hadn't run into before (punk Muslims) and I imagine that 14 year old me would have loved it. However, most of the characters feel more like ideas or sides of an argument than actual people. About 80% of the book is a conversation where someone says to the narrator "Have you ever heard of ..." The narrator says no and then there is pages of one character going on and on punctuated by the narrator saying "awesome" or "uh-huh" or "wow." Knight lets us know how great and likable the hero of the book is because we are constantly told how great and likable he is and the burka wearing feminist's act of ultimate punkrockedness was pretty ridiculous.
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February 18, 2009 – Shelved
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Sithara I completely agree with your assessment of the burka wearing feminist...actually, after that act, I can't even consider her a feminist...No feminist - Islamic or otherwise - would consider such a demeaning act as somehow empowering to women.


Sithara I completely agree with your assessment of the burka wearing feminist...actually, after that act, I can't even consider her a feminist...No feminist - Islamic or otherwise - would consider such a demeaning act as somehow empowering to women.


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