Here's a series of words one never thought would be strung together in one sentence!

Five years ago, Irish Catholic born/Muslim convert, Micheal Muhammad Knight, of upstate New York, wrote "The Taqwacores" as his way of mending "the rift between being an observant Muslim and an angry American youth".

The book, which is populated with characters like Rabeya, a girl who plays guitar onstage wearing a burqa, Fasiq a pot-smoker and Jehangir, a drunk, has struck a chord with disenfranchised Arab-American youth who have been feeling stigmatized since the Sept. 11 attacks.

To read more about "The Taqwacores" and the movie based on the book, check out the article in the New York Times.