THE MAKING OF THE FUNDAMENTALIST SELF: AN EXISTENTIAL-POLITICAL READING OF MARGINALIZED MUSLIMS IN IRANIAN NIGHT BY TARIQ ALI

Abstract

Marginalization and barring Muslims from Western countries have been prevalent since 9/11. Muslims are beaten, subjugated, marginalized, and discriminated against due to Islamophobia. In the drama Iranian Night by Tariq Ali, a Son character is beaten and stripped naked in the street by a group of people and is stereotyped with a title such as circumcised pig. He came back to his own native country and became a fundamentalist. He started a revolt against the white class people in general and, in particular, Muslims. He wanted to change the world to Islam. The researcher has to focus on the exploitation and its effect due to the ill-treatment by the West. The researcher uses Sartre's Existentialism is Humanism and Razack's Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics (2008) as a theoretical framework to analyze such data. This study is qualitative in nature and uses the close reading technique as a method. The main aim of the study is to create awareness about the exploitation of Muslims in Western society and their response to it.