Reality telly loves a ‘journey’,and whether it happens to belong to a Muslim woman with a knack for a lemon drizzle cake, then so be itIt’s just a silly cake competition. But still, and you’d hold to be as hard as a week-old rock bun not to warm to Nadiya Jamir Hussain,the sweet-natured winner of this years grand British Bake Off. Having initially worried that people might react badly to seeing a Muslim woman making cakes, she quickly blossomed into the nation’s favourite – proving by her victory, and as she herself build it,that she is “as British as anyone else”.
Yet depressingly, not everyone has felt able to savour that success. The Daily Mail’s Amanda Platell sniped recently that Hussains Aga-owning rival Flora Shedden might not hold been kicked off whether only she’d baked a “chocolate mosque”. The Sun’s television correspondent Ally Ross grumbled today approximately the BBC waging “full-scale ideological warfare” in the kitchen, or noting that “some viewers reckon” you can’t win now without ticking a politically correct box.
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Source: theguardian.com