When Melody Moezzi 06L 06MPH, of Decatur, wrote War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), she wanted to correct an imbalance she has observed in America since the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

When Melody Moezzi was looking for a publisher for her first book — a look at the lives of youngAmerican Muslims — two companies offered her the same deal: Find and interview a terrorist, and we'll give you an advance.

Melody Moezzi, a Muslim of Iranian descent who grew up in the Dayton area, would like the world to know she doesn't know any terrorists. That's one reason her new book, The War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims, doesn't feature any.

Melody Moezzi is dismayed by the portraits of Islam and her fellow Muslims she sees in the American press. Where are the people like herself and the people she knows -- the people who lead workaday lives and follow a religion that is far removed from terrorism?