This is so great: now we have two Muslim comic book superheroines, Qahera and Kamala. Clearly some Muslims in the media business realize that Islam has a serious image problem; what they don’t realize is that comic book heroines fighting against “Islamophobia” won’t solve it. When will we get a Muslim comic book superheroine who fights against the “extremists” who have “hijacked” Islam? Or is it only the perceptions of non-Muslims that have to be adjusted, so that as soon as we all come to love jihad, all will be well? The panels showing Qahera growing enraged by the Western feminists discussing how Muslim women need to be “rescued” are bitterly ironic, given that Western feminists generally make excuses for Sharia oppression of women, rather than speak out against it. What’s more, the Muslim women who really need to be “rescued” are not those who wear the hijab, but — in all too many Muslim countries — those who dare not to wear it.
“Introducing Egypt’s new superhero: Qahera, fighting everything from misogyny to Islamophobia,” by Shounaz Meky for Al Arabiya via Al Bawaba, February 2 (thanks to Maxwell):
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Qahera, a new web-based comic heroine who fights social problems affecting women in Egypt.
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