The Churails

All-girl taqwacore band in Kansas City, from the 2009 novel Osama van Halen by Michael Muhammad Knight.

Lineup:

• Bombay Unger, guitar
• Yusef Islam
• The Amazing Ayuub, drums

When Bombay Unger finally felt ready to do a show, Amazing Ayyub made a series of long-distance phone calls on Yusuf Islam's parents' phone and brought a handful of taqwacore bands to Kansas City. For a weekend they lived in the garage with Ayyub, drinking bhang lassi and making clumsy Fajr prayers. One band, the Churails, was all girls, with a bass player sporting a classic taqwacore burqa covered in band patches. The whole ...

The band's name is a play on real Canadian punk band Subhumans; mumin is an Arabic word that means "believer".

See also

• The Churails

External Links

• https://archive.org/details/osamavanhalen0000knig/