I've spent a small amount of time in Muslim countries. Indonesia is due north, and Malaysia is a little bit further (Kuala Lumpar is a great city). Perhaps as a consequence I'm a little more aware that most of you (save perhaps for Son of Mxy) that the vast majority of Muslims have no interest in blowing up anything, nor care about what people do or don't wear. So, as you indulge in stereotypes, you perpetuate the stereotype of the ugly American. Dumbarses. (I should add that its part of the human condition to engage in stereotypes: most Indonesians and Malaysians think Australians are racists who oppress Aborigines - and indeed we do have racists who would like to oppress Aborigines, but they are a very slim majority).
Otherwise, dismounting from my soap box, I have no objection to a Muslim superhero. But like Simon Baz (who has an Arabic tattoo, which is contrary to Muslim tenets of not altering the human form - someone at DC didn't do their homework) this seems very gimmicky. Does someone's faith really need to be the showpiece of a title? When are the new titles Captain Star-of-David, Super-Buddhist, and The Spectacular Shinto-Man getting released?
And Klinton: you're dead wrong. Marvel are drunk or deluded if they think there is a target market within their existing pool of readers for a Muslim superhero - worse, a Muslim superheroine! Titles featuring female characters in the lead historically sink. If they want a new market, publish it in Arabic and change their distribution channels. Lothar is right on its duration. I give it 12 issues, because if a sack of shit title like Fearless Defenders can last 12 issues, then anything can.
