[lbo-talk] Muslim lady sues Kominas, American Muslim punk band, for "defamation"

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 25 08:06:04 PDT 2007


[Ah, The Kominas again! The lady who's suing the band, Asma Gull Hasan -- her family are Bush supporters, in fact members of "Muslims for Bush" (not a joke) and her Muslim family "are [also] Bush Pioneers. Pioneers are those people who pledge to raise at least $100,000 for Bush’s re-election, with the expectation that they will reap benefits from this (of the 246 Pioneers in 2000, 104 of them ended up with Federal appointments.)" according to: http://www.sunnisisters.com/?p=174

Info on band's MySpace, etc., below this piece. -B]

http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7262553

Local author says Muslim writer, band defamed her By Arthur Kane The Denver Post

Article Last Updated: 10/24/2007 04:14:21 AM MDT

A Denver lawyer and writer is suing an East Coast Muslim writer and a Muslim punk band, charging they defamed her in a song.

Asma Gull Hasan claims Michael Muhammad Knight wrote an unflattering portrayal of her in his book "Blue- Eyed Devil" and influenced The Kominas to write defamatory lyrics describing her performing a sex act.

"The purpose ... of these highly offensive, denigrating and defamatory lyrics (written and performed by The Kominas with Knight's knowledge, encouragement and support) was to mock, deride and ridicule Hasan," Hasan's attorney wrote in the lawsuit, filed Friday in Denver.

Knight, who met Hasan while interviewing other Muslims in America, said he never defamed her in his book and did not influence The Kominas' music. "You can't defeat writers by censoring or punishing them, you only defeat writers by outwriting them," Knight wrote in an e-mail response to The Denver Post. "And she can't do that, so she has to resort to this."

Hasan, who has supported the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, is the author of "American Muslims: The New Generation" and "Why I Am a Muslim: An American Odyssey" and has written opinion columns for The Post. She claims Knight's book portrays her falsely as "wealthy, self-absorbed, insensitive and acutely uninformed."

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THE KOMINAS ON MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/thekominas

I like the song "Blow Shit Up." The Kominas hate Bush, btw. :)

Blog entry about this lawsuit is here, tagged under "Romance and Relationships" - haha: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=7697126&blogID=322181237&indicate=1



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