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Muhammad Entering From the Rear: A review of Osama Van Halen

Perspective

If punk rock songs are short, loud, offensive, and give a big F.U. to the mainstream, then Michael Muhammad Knight’s new novel, Osama Van Halen (Soft Skull Press) is very punk rock.

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A is for Allah

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While browsing YouTube, I came across this beautiful song Yusuf Islam wrote for his baby daughter to teach her the Arabic alphabet. Enjoy.

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All hail the Unicorn!

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This is a music video beyond description. It may be religious…er cultish. Mythic for sure.

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Christian comic Tim Hawkins “Chic-fil-A”

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Christian comedy isn’t all about family, Christmas, and church.

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The ghost of Daniel Johnston

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If Daniel Johnston were born in a different time and place, he might have been burned as a heretic or confined forever to an insane asylum. But in this age, the self-taught singer-songwriter, given to paranoid delusions about Satan and violent outbursts, has become a revered figure in the underground art and music world.

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Heavy metal monk

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Music has been a part of the worship of monks for hundreds of years. Chant is usually the preferred genre. But Cesar Bonizzi, an Italian monk, prefers his music a bit more extreme. He fronts the metal band Fratello Metal (Metal Brother).

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When religion and advertising don’t mix

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It’s the 20th anniversary of the release of Madonna’s religious imagery infused “Like a Prayer” video and doomed Pepsi campaign this month.

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Cows and Christian music

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I don’t like Christian music, but I do dig this song by Nathan Schneider from Killing the Buddha. Probably because it’s not Christian music.

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Mega selling monks are no boy band

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When the monks of Heilegendreuz Abbey in Austria signed a recording contract with Universal Records, many had concerns about how their sacred chants would be marketed. Some of the younger men of the abbey worried that they would be portrayed as a “boy group”.
A boy group?
Yeah a boy group.
While the monks say Universal was [...]

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