The Marvel comic that does a disservice to Britain

Here are some pictures from the short-lived Captain Britain and MI-13 series from about 6 years ago, where the UK writer Paul Cornell introduced one of the most forced ideas for a co-star member to cast, that being Faiza Hussein, a woman of Pakistani background who's a Muslim, complete with burka, and got a superpower during Secret Invasion (one of the ickiest I've ever heard of, BTW):

As seen in this panel, the ghost of Merlin (?) puts a thought in her head encouraging her to pull the Excalibur out of the stone, which she succeeds in doing. Apparently, this was Cornell's way of saying that an Islamist is worthy of being the representative of Britain's best interests. But after the terrorist attack on July 7, 2005 and even now, after the violent murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, that Marvel would publish something like that was as disrespectful of every decent UK resident as it was of American victims of terrorism. Come to think of it, they're even being disrespectful to the character by portraying her the way they are.

The story as seen in the book had some peculiarities along these lines too:

In one picture, Faiza rolls up her sleeves during a cricket game, and in another, she rides with Black Knight Dane Whitman on horseback. If memory serves, she even took Dane or Capt. Britain himself to meet her parents, which is unrealistic since in real life, for a Muslim woman to have anything perceived as an affair with an "infidel" (non-Muslim), could easily result in violent reactions from the father (as in the case of an actress in the Harry Potter films), and there've been many Muslim women who fell victim to honor murders committed by relatives who refuse to recognize a woman's right to free choice. Similarly, even rolling up her sleeves could be considered haram (taboo) among hardcore Islamisogynists.

To make matters worse, even after the horrific bloodbath in Woolwich, the New Statesman fawned over this poorly thought out propaganda and said that it "shows the true face of Britain"! Correction: it represents the kind of PC nonsense the leftists of Britain have been busily shoving down the public's throats for years. They say at the end:

...the story of a Muslim woman of Pakistani heritage becoming the living embodiment of all that is British may not be a story which "matters" in the comic's world, but it's certainly one which matters in ours.

After all the terrible things the most rabid advocates of the Religion of Peace have done to this world? I don't think so. The stories were so biased in her favor based on her religion - right down to the recent one set in an alternate reality tied with Age of Ultron where Brian Braddock dubs her Captain Britain - that it's not too hard to see Cornell was forcing this upon the audience based upon what religion she adheres to, not that she's British-Pakistani per se.

Cornell may have defended this dishonest, superficial portrayal of Islam by saying she doesn't have to represent the Muslim world at all times. But unfortunately, if she's going to do things like wear a burka and even remotely adhere to a violent religion, then she is. Cornell even called her Britain's Kitty Pryde. Which would be fine if she wasn't an adherent to Islam. If that's how he's going to portray her, then I'm not sure he really liked his own creation.

I wish I could say it was good that a character written as an adherent to the Religion of Peace didn't actually become Captain Britain. But the Age of Ultron-connected story so obviously represents a wish by the writer for what he thinks is logical, and as a result, that too is galling in the extreme. What a pity Cornell didn't have much respect for his own creation. Otherwise, he wouldn't have made her a Muslim in the first place.