Faces of Islam

The low-budget 'The Taqwacores' uses Muslims who are hard-core punk rockers to present compelling ideas of how modern Muslims worship in the U.S.They are, to be sure, ideas that go unexplored in the Koran: Is it a sin to slam dance? Can a person wear his hair in a mohawk, smoke weed like Snoop Dogg and still call himself a devout Muslim under the eyes of God? The micro-budgeted feature "The Taqwacores" — which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, opened in New York last week and...

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