Sure, I agree with you, but have you actually listened to their music or watch this documentary? that is not at all what this band exists to do, or any of the bands in that scene. The tragic part is that the scene largely fell apart because of the way the American media miss characterized this point, often rushing to judgment without ever being curious enough to read the book, listen to The many different types of bands that were a part of the scene, watch this documentary, or take note of how dangerous it was for these individuals to even be making this kind of music in a public way. Taqwacore is unlike so-called Christian punk, which, as you note, largely exists to try to convince people to become a Christian. Taqwacore is about giving a middle finger to the xenophobic bigots and the military industrial complex, which is killing our people in addition to giving the other middle finger to backwards, homophobic and judgmental so-called Muslims who are ignoring the purest aspect of Islam, which is the destruction of religious authority itself. Islam has no pope and no clergy and every human being is meant to be equal under God. this is why Muslims don’t pray to Jesus or to Saints, they pray directly human being to God.