Just listened to the Disgraced (audiobook) by Ayad Akhtar. Feeling ambivalent about it’s treatment of Islam and Muslims. It’s a problem that non-Muslims are the only ones allowed to think positively of the religion and that too as art or tradition and not theology. 1/
Well, once the doctrinal gun of Islam permits wife beating had been brought on stage it had to go off, right? The point became about emphasizing the barbarism of Muslims that couldn’t be hidden by a $600 bespoke shirt.