Young Muslims born and residing in the US are taking conventional humor to counter false American stereotypes of Islam and Muslims. Calgary, Canada born Obaida Abdul-Rahim, who lives in Gainesville, Florida, runs one of several Middle-Eastern themed t-shirt business that have sprung up to retort anti-Muslim sentiment. Such slogans printed on the t-shirts include “100 percent Randomly Searched at the Following Airports” and “Allah’s Little Angel.” The target audience of the t-shirts are diverse; “I’d like Muslims to know that it’s okay to laugh, and non-Muslims to know that we have a sense of humor,” says Abdul-Rahim. Shabbir Chaudury, a student at Fordham University of Law of Bangladeshi descent began creating shirts with a badge that said “Salam, My Name is, not that hard to pronounce” — borrowing from the common Hello, my name is […] stickers. These shirts demonstrate that Muslims are assimilating into the Western culture and are embracing it as their own, despite popular belief, said Shabbir.