We never see London schoolgirl Fatima, whose decision to start wearing a hijab veil at the start of an academic year throws her 17-year-old classmates into confusion.
Baring all, with a bit of bad language: The youthful cast of What Fatima Did
Given the subject matter, her invisibility is a neat theatrical device.
Former good-time girl ‘Fatty’ has suddenly become teetotal and remote.
Fatima’s white boyfriend George (Gethin Anthony) is particularly uneasy about her veil and is soon in trouble for ripping it off her head.
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But her mother (Shobu Kapoor) is furious with the child. She argues that Asian women struggled against the oppression of the veil, only for Western Muslims to readopt it in the mistaken belief that it establishes their identity. ‘I’d rather you were a one-legged prostitute than a hijab wearer,’ she cries.
See the full article from “Daily Mail”
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