1 Immigrant Literature Immigrant literature by Wail S. Hassan in Leila Aboulela and the Ideology of Muslims expounds on the challenges, opportunities, and experiences people who have moved from their motherland face in the new lands. This is expounded in the scholarly article by Wail S Hassan by evaluating multiple fictions on the implications of immigration to the victim's cultural heritage, the assimilation process, and the challenges of adaptations and the corresponding need to suspend one cultural heritage. Hassan cites immigrant literature illuminating the minority's challenges in the new lands. The author notes Aboulelas’s fiction, confirming that Muslim minorities face several predicaments in Britain that stem from religion. The author cites incidents of harassment and discrimination of Muslim women wearing hijabs. The Museum by Leila Aboulela complements the insights regarding the predicaments of immigration and cultural integration. Through the lens of Shadia, the main protagonist in the story, the author brings to light the challenges of suspending one's own cultural identity and adopting the cultural dynamics of a foreign land in the face of immigration. I agree with Hassan that immigrant literature about minority populations shows they face several challenges ranging from religious discrimination to the need to uphold their cultural heritage. In The Museum, Shadia also struggles to keep her heritage and adapt to Western culture.
Hassan synthesizes Aboulela's fiction on how Muslim women living in Britain are discriminated against on a religious basis. He cites the multiple incidents of racism and harassment of Muslims, particularly Muslim women wearing hijab, which are depicted in most of Abou Lela’s texts, but so is the unconscious racism of liberals and multiculturalists ( page 306). Such fiction represents the unsuspected gaps in Britain that had barely existed before the wave of immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Aboulel's fiction also illuminates the challenges and persecutions of the surge of the Islamic region that characterized the migrations between