'When people in my [Islamic] community are the subject of TV and film, it is almost always in a way that obscures the multifaceted nuances of our beliefs and cultures, and this always does irreparable damage.' |✍️ Nadeine Asbali writes for MetroOpinion
I remember sneakily watchingWhen the character of Shabnam Masood would whip her hijab off at the turn of her parents’ back and go clubbing – seeking liberation in the touch of white men and at the bottom of a bottle – that cemented in not just my young mind, but also the public’s collective imagination, that Islam is repressive and that women are desperate to escape its confines.
Without knowing it, I have been consuming derogatory stereotypes about my own community since I was a young child.I remember sneakily watching EastEnders through a crack in the front room door as a child for their racist depictions of people of colour, including a story in which a princess is chased by a group of angry, violent men swathed in Muslim-looking clothing.
Across 200 TV series examined as part of the study, only 12 featured a regular Muslim character and seven of these were either perpetrators or victims of physical violence. Muslim characters are overwhelmingly shown as male, speaking little or ‘foreign’ accented English and associated with acts of aggression, while Muslim women onscreen adhere to the damaging cliche of being ‘fearful and endangered’ victims in need of saving.
I forced myself to sit through a few episodes of Channel 4’s The Undeclared War but unsurprisingly, it was as laden with damaging stereotypes as ever
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