Amazing Ayyub, an Iranian Shi'ite skinhead, and Rabeya, a burqa-wearing punk, have kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage. They demand that Hollywood depict Muslims in a positive light-"just one movie where we're not these two-dimensional...
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Amazing Ayyub, an Iranian Shi'ite skinhead, and Rabeya, a burqa-wearing punk, have kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage. They demand that Hollywood depict Muslims in a positive light-"just one movie where we're not these two-dimensional al Qaeda stereotypes." But Damon's concerned they're playing into that same terrorist paradigm, thereby furthering the neoconservative perception of Islam. Meanwhile, Ayyub embarks on a mission to rid the taqwacore scene of a Muslim pop-punk band called Shah 79. Along the way, he makes himself invisible, escapes punk-eating zombies in a mosque off t
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CONTENTS; PROGRESSIVE ISLAM VS. THE DOUBLE-DONG BROTHERS; RABEYA VS. MATT DAMON; THE KOMINAS VS. PUNK-EATING ZOMBIES; AMAZING AYYUB VS. THE PSYCHOBILLY JINNS; INTERMISSION: BOMBAY UNGER AND YUSUF ISLAM START A TAQWACORE BAND; TAQWACORES VS. THE ISLAMIC SOCIETYOF NORTH AMERICA; F. SCOTT FITZGERALD VS. FIVE DESI GIRLS; THE MAIN EVENT; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;
