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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The twist of the book: [[spoiler: A U.S. serviceman in Iraq discovered a bottle containing a Djinn and wished that the entire Iraqi war had never happened. The Djin interpreted his wish to remake the entire world into one where the UAS dominates and the United States is a third world country. The soldier lampshades how he should have been a lot more specific in what he meant.]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The twist of the book: [[spoiler: A U.S. [[spoiler:an American serviceman in Iraq discovered a bottle containing a Djinn and wished that the entire Iraqi war had never happened. The Djin Djinn interpreted his wish to remake the entire world into one where the UAS dominates and the United States is a third world country. The soldier (who still remembers the original world) lampshades how he should have been a lot more specific in what he meant.]]
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* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The Christian States of America is made up of 18 states along the east coast, as well as Alabama and Mississippi. Texas is an Evangelical Republic with claims over Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Coahuila, though the residents there would disagree. Missouri, rather than Utah, is a Mormon State. The Pentecostal Gilead heartland borders the CSA and Great Lakes. A Rocky Mountain nation controls, more in theory than fact, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas. It's split up between many tribal factions.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The twist of the book: [[spoiler: A U.S. serviceman in Iraq discovered a bottle containing a Djin Djinn and wished that the entire Iraqi war had never happened. The Djin interpeted interpreted his wish to remake the entire world into one where the UAS dominates and the United States is a third world country. The soldier lampshades how he should have been a lot more specific in what he meant.]]
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* PolyAmory: Mustafa was married to two women at the same time. [[WhatTheHellHero He gets criticised plenty for it.]]
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* PolyAmory: {{Polyamory}}: Mustafa was married to two women at the same time. [[WhatTheHellHero He gets criticised plenty for it.]]]]
* NukeEm: In addition to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo to end World War II.
* NukeEm: In addition to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo to end World War II.
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** A punk rock group called [[Music/GreenDay Green Desert]] has an anti-war anthem named "[[Music/AmericanIdiot Arabian Idiot]]".
** While unnamed, the governor of Lebanon is mentionned as having previously been an action-movie superstar, [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger just like a certain someone]]. He is even nicknamed "the Governator"!
** Instead of UPS, the postal service is called APS, with the slogan "What can Al Arabi do for you?"
** While unnamed, the governor of Lebanon is mentionned as having previously been an action-movie superstar, [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger just like a certain someone]]. He is even nicknamed "the Governator"!
** Instead of UPS, the postal service is called APS, with the slogan "What can Al Arabi do for you?"
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** A briefly referenced children's program is called ''Open Sesame!'' , obviously being an alternate SesameStreet.
** ''24/7 Jihad'' is TwentyFour, with the protagonist sharing the same initials as Jack Bauer, Jafar Bashir.
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* MirrorUniverse: The novel explores a mirror version of TheWaronTerror; a liberated, cosmopolitan United Arab States is attacked by fundamentalist Christian Americans and ends up invading them in retaliation. Unlike a lot of examples, the fact that this world is such a funhouse mirror version of our own is actually key to the plot.
* PolyAmory: Mustafa was married to two women at the same time. [[WhatTheHellHero He gets critisized plenty for it.]]
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* MirrorUniverse: The novel explores a mirror version of TheWaronTerror; TheWarOnTerror; a liberated, cosmopolitan United Arab States is attacked by fundamentalist Christian Americans and ends up invading them in retaliation. Unlike a lot of examples, the fact that this world is such a funhouse mirror version of our own is actually key to the plot.
* PolyAmory: Mustafa was married to two women at the same time. [[WhatTheHellHero He getscritisized criticised plenty for it.]]
* PolyAmory: Mustafa was married to two women at the same time. [[WhatTheHellHero He gets
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* {{Eurabia}}: In this history, the Arab world became united into a powerful block that has enabled them to pull ahead of the West.
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* DrivingQuestion: What is the Mirage?
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* FictionalCounterpart: The Library of Alexandria is obviously one of TheOtherWiki.
** [=EBazaar=] is [=Ebay=].
** [=EBazaar=] is [=Ebay=].
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* GenieInABottle: [[spoiler: A Djinn was the one to create this world, who is later captured by Saddam Hussein. After the Djinn is killed, it's implied that the world returns to normal.]]
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Considering this is a MirrorUniverse revolving around TheWarOnTerror, there are plenty.
** The United Arab States is obviously the USA.
** The CSA is Iraq, the United Kingdom is Iran, the Rocky Mountain Territories are Afghanistan, Louisiana is Kuwait, and Texas is Saudi Arabia.
** The Library of Alexandria mentions the Orthodox Union, likely a theocratic version of the USSR.
** The United Arab States is obviously the USA.
** The CSA is Iraq, the United Kingdom is Iran, the Rocky Mountain Territories are Afghanistan, Louisiana is Kuwait, and Texas is Saudi Arabia.
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* AlternateHistory: The original 13 United Arab States broke away from the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century, later expanding to include the entire Arab world. According to the Library of Alexandria website, the second world war was ended when a third atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, Hitler didn't commit suicide and was instead beheaded at Nuremberg, there was a Mexican gulf war fought over the Kingdom of Louisiana, and it's implied that the UAS landed men on the moon and underwent an equivalent to the civil rights movement. And, of course, Christian fundamentalist terrorists attacked and destroyed the Tigris and Euphrates world trade center towers on November 9th, 2001, prompting a war on terror and invasion of the Christian States of America.
* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: While it initially seems to be a III or IV, it becomes AlienSpaceBats when [[spoiler: it's revealed history was changed by a wish made to a Djinn.]]
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* WretchedHive: The Christian states of America is
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* BalkanizeMe: After World War II, Germany was divided into two states: one Christian and one Jewish.
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* BuryYourGays: Unfortunately for [[spoiler:Samir]], this is true for the Islamic society of the UAS.
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* TheRapture: What militant Christians believe in.
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* TheMenInBlack: Al Quaeda.
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The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee—a war hero named Osama bin Laden—will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems.
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!!This book provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Amal.
* AffablyEvil: Saddam Hussein.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Abounds.
* GuileHero: Amal's mother.
* MagnificentBastard: Bin Laden.
* PolyArmory: Mustafa was married to two women at the same time.
* ToThePain: Idris' penchant.
* VillainsOutShopping: Saddam, who does it on EBazaar.
!!This book provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Amal.
* AffablyEvil: Saddam Hussein.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Abounds.
* GuileHero: Amal's mother.
* MagnificentBastard: Bin Laden.
* PolyArmory: Mustafa was married to two women at the same time.
* ToThePain: Idris' penchant.
* VillainsOutShopping: Saddam, who does it on EBazaar.
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An AlternateHistory novel by MattRuff, published in 2012.
11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers.
The United Arab States declares a WarOnTerror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . . .
Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage—in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of The New York Times, dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party.
The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee—a war hero named Osama bin Laden—will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems.
11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers.
The United Arab States declares a WarOnTerror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the Eastern Seaboard and establish a Green Zone in Washington, D.C. . . .
Summer, 2009: Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi interrogates a captured suicide bomber. The prisoner claims that the world they are living in is a mirage—in the real world, America is a superpower, and the Arab states are just a collection of "backward third-world countries." A search of the bomber's apartment turns up a copy of The New York Times, dated September 12, 2001, that appears to support his claim. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa soon discovers he's not the only interested party.
The gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee—a war hero named Osama bin Laden—will stop at nothing to hide the truth. As Mustafa and his colleagues venture deeper into the unsettling world of terrorism, politics, and espionage, they are confronted with questions without any rational answers, and the terrifying possibility that their world is not what it seems.
