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Russell Contreras, an Associated Press reporter, wrote a piece (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34667129) on a punk rock revolutionary movement, which I might add looks to be using music maybe to grow an anti-establishment Muslim-Hindu subculture to contend with their brand of bunker mentality “Trust Your Neighbors But Brand Your Stock.”
Contreras contends that this anti-establishment subculture is “borne of religiously conservative communities.”
I ask you then. . . Is flower power, originating in Berkley California, re-emerging from the basement of a middle class home “deep in the woods” of the colonial town of Wayland, Massachusetts?
Could it be that these artists, similarly to Ginsberg’s essay in November 1965, How To Make a March/Spectacle are advocating protesters be provided with their flava “masses of flowers” to turn anti-war rallies into another version of “street theater”? I hope so because I am not sure how the hafiz with their madrasah are winning the hearts and minds with explosive vests and suicide bombers?
Contreras reports that these artists want to “reconcile issues such as life in America, women’s rights and homosexuality with Islam and old East vs. West cultural clashes.”
“This is one way to deal with my identity as an Arab-American,” said Marwan Kamel, the 24-year-old lead guitarist in Chicago-based Al-Thawra. “With this music, I can express this confusion.”
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