Hospitality toward suspected radicals can be framed as Islamic charity in fiction

Evidence

Issa’s flight from Russia has taken him through Turkey, Sweden, and Denmark and finally to the house of Melik, a young Turkish boxing champion, and Melik’s mother, Leyla, who embrace the Islamic injunction to charity by taking in the damaged fugitive. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 327

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Contrasts with Naqvi’s Home Boy where similar welcoming gestures get destroyed by securitized suspicion — a useful counterpoint reading.