... favoring a return to strong patriarchal authority and national pride, while the narrative of the triumph of political Islam is frequently interpreted as a thinly veiled act of Islamophobia. This ideological interpretation is, however, complicated by the bad faith of the novel’s unreliable narrator...

... in the United States created similar controversy when a University of San Diego professor and her students protested against discrimination toward Muslims by wearing the yellow star. A statement by the university clarified that the professor’s aim was “to raise awareness of Islamophobia and was not intended...