It’s time for the entertainment industry to evolve beyond Princess Jasmine. For the longest time, Disney’s “Aladdin” icon was the only representation many Muslim women had, allowi…
,” a show centered around a Muslim girl rock band, it seems like Muslim women are ready to exit the wings from muted background characters and onto the main stage. And still, the challenge is a shocking one: the on-screen test states that a recent study found that more than three-quarters of all Muslim characters are men.
Muslim women sit at a gendered intersection of representation, often defining the public’s gateway into a culture as a whole. One trope that has reigned supreme is that Muslim women are oppressed and need to be saved from Muslim men. The test cites existing research that “media often pit Western values against Islam, with Muslims shown as enemies instead of partners, and as a separate community instead of integrated with other communities.
That’s not to say that stories of oppression and adversity don’t exist, but when they make up the majority of the already-scarce representation that Muslim women are given and is all that we see of ourselves, then the trope dehumanizes the entire collective. And if the argument is that all execs really care about is making money, then the sooner the industry wakes up to the mosaic of Muslim narratives, the better off we’ll all be. Research from UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers found that “big-budget films lacking in diversity make about $27 million less on their opening weekend, with a potential loss of $130 million in total.
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