The hit television show Bodyguard swapped one stereotype of Muslim women for another, an Islamic feminist scholar has said.
“There is a stereotypical view of Muslim women as passive, as lacking in autonomy, and Muslim men are brutes,” she said.
“Why we had to make this woman Nadia, who is so timid and everything, which was a stereotype of Muslim women, and then suddenly she became a stereotype of another Muslim woman, one that is a jihadist,” she said while speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
At the same time you face resistance from those Muslim women who see arguments for equality and justice within Islam as a betrayal.