Osama Van Halen

Amazing Ayyub an Iranian Shiite skinhead and Rabeya a burqawearing punkhave kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage. They demand thatHollywood depict M... » 

Amazing Ayyub an Iranian Shiite skinhead and Rabeya a burqawearing punkhave kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage. They demand thatHollywood depict Muslims in a positive lightjust one movie where were notthese twodimensional al Qaeda stereotypes. But Damons concerned theyreplaying into that same terrorist paradigm thereby furthering theneoconservative perception of Islam. Meanwhile Ayyub embarks on a mission torid the taqwacore scene of a Muslim poppunk band called Shah 79. Along theway he makes himself invisible escapes punkeating zombies in a mosque offthe desert highway and runs into some psychobilly jinns. Things turnexistential when Ayyub finds himself facetoface with his creatorno notAllah but the author. This riotous journey of enlightenment reads like areligious service for teenagers on Halloween. But it isnt all raucous funwritten into his own novel the author finds he is at the mercy of hiscreation. «