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...Arabic for "higher consciousness," and core, from hardcore.) He then received an e-mail from a 16-year-old Texan Muslim, Kourosh Poursalehi, who was in a band called Vote Hezbollah, asking how he could get in touch with the mohawked Sufis, skater punks, burqa-wearing riot grrrls and skinhead Shi'ites in the book. When Knight told him it was fiction, Poursalehi responded, "Well, then I'll make it real." With Knight's help, he began contacting like-minded Muslim musicians on the Internet. Soon, Muslim bands from across the U.S. and Canada decided to put together a tour...
...Polls suggest the far-right NPD party could maintain the foothold in Saxony's state parliament that they gained in 2004 and win seats in the state of Thuringia in elections this summer. In December, the police chief of the Bavarian city Passau survived a knife attack by a skinhead, thought to be a Neo-Nazi...
...Islamists and attack religion for its lack of reason. Does that sound angry? Terry Eagleton, an English philosopher, declared that Amis’s writings read like those of a “BNP thug”—or, to put it in American, a Neo-Nazi skinhead. “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics And The Cult of Personality” by Jerome Corsi: It’s no exaggeration to call this extra-long political pamphlet a labor of pure hate. It was born out of one purpose: to sink the ship of Obama like...
Earlier gang cultures defined themselves by clothing, musical taste or - in the case of some skinhead groups - right-wing politics. Today's gangs aren't even that discriminating, determining fitness for membership by nothing more meaningful than postal codes. Hanad Ahmed and Tashan Edwards, both 14, live in east London. "I can't bring friends around my area because I'm putting them in danger, as well as myself," says Ahmed, who lives in a different district from his school. "If they don't live in the same postcode, there's a chance they'll get robbed...
...Throughout the film Meadows deals deftly with the cultural confusions of the skinhead movement, whose members' bedrooms - replete with vintage posters of blaxploitation flicks and ska-music icons - attest to the influence of foreigners, and of Jamaicans in particular...