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Also I didn't commit much abt how his skin tone is very fair and his hair is blonde since it doesn't matter what race someone is since they can still be Muslim. But I see that it's very colorist and fetishized and the author picked and choose what she wanted from the Muslim community.
The problem is his attire is so closely pertaining to Islamic dressing for men. Also the word "sheik" or "sheikh" is a Muslim scholar or someone very knowledgeable abt Islam and they usually lead prayers at the mosque. It may be fictional but personally, I find it a little annoying with this lack of proper representation and lack of proper research towards the Muslim community. I'm not to sure since I find it a bit disrespectful that they worship the sun god when Islam strictly states that God is not something we can describe as the sun and is the reason we have everything in this universe. And the fact that he's wearing Islamic attire is just... (I'm not trying to disrespect anyone for believing or viewing god as the sun I'm just trying to say that there needs to be more awareness when you're portraying someone that obviously relates to Islam) it also stems from a lot of orientalism
A lot of Arabs and people from the Middle East are Muslim (not all). It's frustrating to see this stereotype, when Muslims aren't being portrayed as terrorists they are portrayed as these exotic and romanticized stories to feed into someone's fantasies or "aesthetic"
Just cuz you say "it's not related to the real world or events" does not mean it is not offensive.