EastEnders, a popular British soap opera will introduce a storyline that will involve a gay Muslim character.
According to an al-Arabiya report, the character will be struggling with his faith and sexuality. Putting the two at odds may not be the best way to handle this one but...
The character will then follow up on his feelings for an openly homosexual character and the two will share a passionate on-screen kiss defying his devout Muslim family and his mother's attempts to set him up with women from "good families."
News of the controversial plot comes just weeks after a Gallup poll revealed that British Muslims have zero tolerance for homosexuality as opposed to their non-Muslim counterparts.
Read the full report from al-Arabiya here.
Allen McDuffee is a political reporter, investigative journalist and blogger. From 2011 to 2013 he covered policy, politics, ideas and think tanks for The Washington Post and has also written for The Nation, The American Prospect, Huffington Post and New York Observer, among others.
