release of just two songs

In 2005, with the release of just two songs on the internet website MySpace , The Kominas, which is Urdu for “scoundrel” found themselves subjects of national news pieces and film and radio documentaries. Initially self-labeled as Bollywood Punk, and “post-colonial-punk” the band adopted the label ” Taqwacore “, in reference to a book called The Taqwacores by American novelist Michael Muhammad Knight , which imagines what a would-be American Muslim Punk scene would look like. This connection quickly fascinated American and International Media, which led to much being written about this unique example of life-imitating-art, and many international tours with the author. Many fans of this phenomenon felt that this was a necessary complicating counter-narrative to a simplistic and largely Islamophobic post-9/11 American media landscape.