When Melody Moezzi was looking for a publisher for her first book — a look at the lives of young American Muslims — two companies offered her the same deal:

Find and interview a terrorist, and we’ll give you an advance.

That’s .00001 percent of our population, and that’s all anybody gets to see on the news or gets to read about.”

That is, indeed, the entire point of the book she was trying to get published. “War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims” (University of Arkansas Press, $18.95) is a collection of profiles of young Muslims, as wide-ranging as they are peaceful: a feminist Muslim, a gay Muslim, a rapper, a convert from Catholicism, a buff Muslim with tattoos and one who sounds like a surfer when he tells her, “Dude, I think I’m like one of the worst Muslims I know.”

Moezzi, who lives in a condo near Emory University with her husband Matthew Lenard, two cats (Olyan and Talula) and a great many books, is an Iranian-American, the daughter of two physicians who came to this country after the Iranian revolution. She’s an attorney who doesn’t practice law at the moment, a self-described activist, a devout Muslim whose Apple laptop sports a large bumper sticker that reads, in Arabic, “All praise is due to God.”

And finally, without interviewing any terrorists, she is a published author. “I wrote this book because I was sick of how the media was portraying something that was incredibly important to me,” she says. “My faith. Most of us are no different from any other people of faith. We want to do right by God.”

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Note: The book includes life of a “gay” Muslim. I beleive homosexuality is strictly prohibited in Islam and whoever claims that it is allowed in Islam is only trying to mislead Muslim brothers and sisters.