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Muslim Punk Rock, or What Fiction Can Do   3 comments

This just in from the New York Times. Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a book about Muslim-Americans forming a punk band in Buffalo New York. From the article by Christopher Maag, “Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book“: Five years ago, young Muslims across the United States began reading and passing along a blurry, [...]

Fiction Can Change the World   6 comments

It’s the subtlety of fiction that sneaks up on you and changes your mind.  No one has to argue in front of a court of law, no one has to hit you over the head, or point to a passage of scripture.  Fiction gives you a person.  And you learn about this person, what it [...]

Posted August 11, 2008 by jstueart in Mishmash

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