Baroness Warsi slams Bodyguard for stereotypical portrayal of Muslim women
The ex-cabinet minister has blasted the BBC1 drama for its 'downtrodden' and 'terrorist' representation of Muslim women through the character of Nadia Ali
EX-CABINET minister Baroness Warsi has slammed hit drama Bodyguard for its stereotypical portrayal of Muslim women as either “downtrodden or a terrorist”.
The former Minister without Portfolio under David Cameron was speaking about central character, Nadia, who was a suicide bomber in the BBC1 thriller, which also starred Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes.
Baroness Warsi, 47, told the Radio Times: “Everybody said: ‘Oh, it was such an amazing series’. I thought, ‘Well, it was, except for the Muslim woman, who’s painted in exactly the same stereotypical way that we always paint Muslim women.
“Either she’s downtrodden and needs to be saved, or she’s a terrorist and we need to be saved from her. In Bodyguard, we think she’s one and she turns out to be the other.”
She was speaking as she was preparing her Radio 4 programme How to Be a (Muslim) Woman.
Baroness Warsi added: “‘I’m a Muslim and female and I just feel that the narrative around my skin is so one-dimensional.’”
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