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* [[Actual Pacifist]]: As part of the deconstruction of [[Acceptable Religious Targets]], Omar's fundamentalist Muslim brother Ahmed tries to talk him out of doing violence, which he rightly suspects he's planning. Naturally, the authorities see him as the terrorist mastermind behind it and are threatening him with torture at the end. Ahmed seems to be a more fundamentalist Muslim than Omar,ironically, refusing to enter the same room with Omar's wife and in Islamic garb everywhere he goes, whereas Omar wears Western-style clothes.
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* [[Played for Laughs]]: Stupid idiots killing themselves for a cause they don't understand? Innocent civilians being murdered? Cruelty to sheep? Check, check and check.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Jury is still out on whether they're more or less incompetent than the suicide bombers but {{spoiler|they attack and arrest Omar's peace-loving brother in the middle of a meeting with his Muslim friends whilst Omar is stuffing nitroglycerin into a Honey Monster outfit, they shoot an innocent marathon runner dressed as Chewbacca and after a naive negotiator completely flubs the Waj hostage situation, they break in and shoot his hostage.}}
* [[Quote Mine]]: Intentionally invoked and subverted with some of the movie posters. Instead of the usual three-word out-of-context reviews from each of the main national papers, they just show the word "[http://www.four-lions.co.uk/downloads/funny_poster.jpg Funny]{{Dead link}}" about <s>seven</s> fifteen times.
** A further subversion in the poster fine print: "If you're reading this, find out what's wrong with you."
* [[Shout-Out]]:
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