Talk:Aki Nawaz

Latest comment: 15 years ago by Dom Kaos in topic Controversy around All is War

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Nawaz's music is also influential because he is able to relate to the Muslim youth living in Britain. His music allowed the Muslim youth culture to take pride in their religious beliefs at a time when many of their British counterparts would discriminate against them for their practices. As Swedenberg notes, "Fun-Da-Mental's expressions of pride in Islam appealed to Muslim youth who had been raised on British popular culture yet also felt wounded by British Islamophobia and the racist overtones of the Salman Rushdie affair." [3] In addition to further enabling Muslim youth to accept their place in Europe as people who practice Islam and are a part of British culture,

These sentances have a biased ring to them, and need a look over, I'm removing them from the article until somebody (maybe me later) can work them over. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.224.63.34 (talk) 01:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Controversy around All is War

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I've done a bit of a tidying up of the whole article, especially the paragraph about the disagreement between Beggars Banquet and Nation Records. I haven't intended to change any of the facts, but as it's unsourced and I don't know anything about the case, I may have inadvertently got something wrong - if so my apologies, and please feel free to correct it Dom Kaos (talk) 12:20, 16 June 2009 (UTC)Reply