The Independent
Tuesday October 2, 2012
BBC1’s Citizen Khan has received complaints not least for
suggesting that Pakistani households are headed by swindling, male
chauvinists who keep women under their yoke. But the production team hit
the nail on the head with personalities like Alia, played by Bhavna
Limbachia.
As a practising South Asian Muslim, I know many girls like her. The
scenes which show Alia pretending to be engrossed in the Quran’s recital
and covering her head with the hijab, just to keep up appearances in
front of her father, are indeed true to the behaviour of some young
Muslim women who scorn what they see as the hijab’s drab and frumpish
look.
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