Michael Muhammad Knight in B&N Review

Some of the housemates hew closely to a Muslim interpretation of
"straightedge," the subset of hardcore punk culture that looks down on
drinking, drugs, and promiscuous sex (of one, Knight writes,
“Straight-edge offered Umar not only an endorsement of Muslim
abstinence, but also the heroic stand-tall roughness that he personally
craved”). Others maintain that prohibitions on alcohol don’t extend to
other intoxicants not explicitly banned by the Qur’an. Still others
happily swill beer and also pray five times a day (sometimes on pizza
box prayer mats, always toward Mecca, which in the house is designated
by a hole in the wall). Most interesting — and transgressive — of all
is the house’s only woman, Rabeya, who wears a full burqa covered with
punk patches, self-publishes a 'zine called Ayesha’s Hymen, sings in a band, and leads men and women in prayer.

The novel itself has a pretty punk rock history:
Knight self-published it in 2003; that same year, it was picked up by
the publishing wing of Alternative Tentacles, the label run by former
Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra since 1979, followed the next year
by a stint at anarchist press Autonomedia. This year, Brooklyn’s Soft
Skull press reissued the novel, along with Impossible Man and three other books by Knight to be released in the coming months.