Michael Muhammad Knight

Michael Muhammad Knight

I never heard of Michael Muhammad Knight before june 2010.i got to know bout him by actually watching the trailer of taqwacores.my first reaction was that he is one of those salman rushdie kinda guys no offence to anyone.before i tell you more bout him let me tell yall something,me growing up as a muslim kid is hard see i love music and i wanna make music inshalla one day i wanna also write a comic book but according to Islam dictated by the Imams,Sheiks etc told all these things are haram and i felt like a bad muslim that time even though i prayed,read the quran,didn't drink,didn't eat pork and the whole deal.the i read Mike Knight's book the Taqwacores and there is a line in there it goes something like this-'My Allah is too big and too open for my Islam to be small and closed.'this line gave me goosebumps.

 Mike Knight wrote a lot of books one of them which is made into a movie.he is an author,punk,wrestler and a muslim in his own terms.lot of people have criticised his writings but they don't  realize his writings are mostly on Islam from a point of view of the rejects,freeks and the misunderstood,these are the people which mainstream Islam portrays as the "bad" muslims.he is a hero for the muslim youth and he is not trying to form a cult or whatever.what i think is he is just a person who is trying to express Islam in his own way.now does that make him a kafir?or a person who has balls to stand up for what he believes in!