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* [[Ear Worm]]: I wanna handjoooob, whoa-oh.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Jehangir and ... everyone.

* [[Humans Are White]]: Averted, which is good if you've been recommending the movie to people who want to know what those scary Muslims are *really* thinking - it tries to show the true diversity of the Muslim world in many different ways, one of which is that there are plenty of white, black, and Asian Muslims hanging around as well as your standard Southeast Asian and Middle Easterns.

* [[Humans Are White]]: Averted, which is good if you've been recommending the movie to people who want to know what those scary Muslims are ''really'' thinking - it tries to show the true diversity of the Muslim world in many different ways, one of which is that there are plenty of white, black, and Asian Muslims hanging around as well as your standard Southeast Asian and Middle Easterns.

* [[The Faceless]]: Rabeya, who wears a full burqa. (Also in the book [[Ambiguously Brown]], there's some discussion in the book about whether she's black or Iraqi or what). Stoner Fasiq is incessantly fascinated with why she does so, especially since she's a feminist.

* [[Fan Service]]: Amazing Ayyub is just too [[Crazy Awesome]] for clothes.

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: In [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Osama Van Halen]], {{spoiler|[[Action Girl|Rabeya]] beheads the [[Author Avatar]] in the parking lot of Bridges TV, the first American Muslim TV network to broadcast entirely in English. (It's a very meta book.)}} Unfortunately, the building recently became the scene of a murder by the CEO (Muzzammil Hassan) who went [[Ax Crazy]] and beheaded his wife. The author added a note explaining that the tragedy hadn't happened yet when he wrote it, the similarity was completely unintentional and that he wrote {{spoiler|his own beheading}} as a symbolic, feminist act.

* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: In ''[[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Osama Van Halen]]'', {{spoiler|[[Action Girl|Rabeya]] beheads the [[Author Avatar]] in the parking lot of Bridges TV, the first American Muslim TV network to broadcast entirely in English. (It's a very meta book.)}} Unfortunately, the building recently became the scene of a murder by the CEO (Muzzammil Hassan) who went [[Ax Crazy]] and beheaded his wife. The author added a note explaining that the tragedy hadn't happened yet when he wrote it, the similarity was completely unintentional and that he wrote {{spoiler|his own beheading}} as a symbolic, feminist act.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: The movie cuts down on a lot of the philosophical discussion of Islam that would either kinda be boring considering the pace of the film, or would just confuse a wider audience - for instance, Rabeya gives a khutbah about the Virgin Mary being a Prophet instead of a story about the intelligent and strong-willed Aisha (RAA).

** Averted in that the characters talk just like real life Muslims do, throwing out an inshAllah or such and such here and there without any explanation. (inshAllah: if God wills it, typically said whenever there's an intention to do something, such as "I'm gonna go take a leak, inshAllah.")