Comments on: Glee’s Principal Figgins aka Iqbal Theba

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:33:10 +0000

i was so disapointed today…there was a live chat with The director Ulrich on oxygen and i asked him the following question : Glee has been an advocate for Christianity and Judaism ,all the races , and even sexual orientations (mostly anything that could be discriminated against). Donâ€™t you think that Glee should present a Muslim character to help end the discrimination and the misunderstanding of the religion and help us to understand what’s moderate what’s not ? guess what ? i got ignored plus some gleeks started attacking me stating comments like :”that no muslim should be on the show” or “did ou forget 9/11 “or “i hope they block you” “nobody cares about your queston”"you are asking political question “–i mean what political about it will there be a muslim caracthr on the show or not ?simple question! …ect and to be fair a guy named jonah found the question interesting and said that wouldn’t be a bad idea and others thought that figgins was a muslim caracther which he’s not butthe question brought me here… anyway by watching glee every week i learned the acceptance even some things that weren’t discussed or looked at in my religions …the show opened my eyes to some realitites and fell in love with it but i was really disapointed with the fact that there are muslims in high schools getting bullied but glee hasn’t tought of adressing the subject? i personally felt cyber bullied just by being an hour on that chat…thanks for the interresting article…much love

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:32:15 +0000

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:31:52 +0000

i was so disapointed today…there was a live chat with The director Ulrich on oxygen and i asked him the following question : Glee has been an advocate for Christianity and Judaism ,all the races , and even sexual orientations (mostly anything that could be discriminated against). Donâ€™t you think that Glee should present a Muslim character to help end the discrimination and the misunderstanding of the religion and help us to understand what’s moderate what’s not ? guess what ? i got ignored plus some gleeks started attacking me stating comments like :”that no muslim should be on the show” or “did ou forget 9/11 “or “i hope they block you” “nobody cares about your queston”"you are asking political question “–i mean what political about it will there be a muslim caracthr on the show or not ?simpe question! …ect and to be fair a guy named jonah found the question interesting and said that wouldn’t be a bad idea and others thought that figgins was a muslim caracther which he’s not butthe question brought me here… anyway by watching glee every week i learned the acceptance even some things that weren’t discussed or looked at in my religions …the show opened my eyes to some realitites and fell in love with it but i was really disapointed with the fact that there are muslims in high schools getting bullied but glee hasn’t tought of adressing the subject? i personally felt cyber bullied just by being an hour on that chat…thanks for the interresting article…much love

By: Craigewey

Craigewey — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:13:09 +0000

Where is he??? My favorite GLEE character is missing, AGAIN! Sue needs to get out of that office! Is he coming back?????

By: Alena

Alena — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:29:46 +0000

IM A TOTAL GLEEK! yeah, Figgins might be from English descent. I’m indian, and Catholic…and sort of offended that you always think we’re either Hindu or Muslim. That’s stereotypical….We don’t ALWAYS have to follow those two religions. It depends on where you’re from in India. Both my parents are from south india..and Catholic. So yeah. Don’t ever assume we’re always Hindu or Muslim or something….we can be born in Christian families… it’s totally possible.

By: darrell

darrell — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:51:14 +0000

I guess Figgins is probably a south asian of european descent, aka “anglo indians”, “anglo pakistanis”. In short, we got some vanilla mixed with our chocolate. Proud to have someone like that representing my community .

By: akak

akak — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:36:23 +0000

I happpened here after watching a rerun of the “Intro to Film” episode of Community, in which Iqbal Theba features prominently. His character is an Arab… it’s refreshing to see an Arab character with a South Asian accent, rather than the lame Arab accents that most South Asian characters end up with!

I’ve met several Pakistani Christians, one of them, who was of Punjabi background was called ‘Aaliya Fancy’ — she’d laugh and say it’s Nancy, with an F, her husband, also Pakistani was named Philip.

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:41:53 +0000

Haha! I effin' love Mr.Figgins. Btw, I don't get the "gasp" in refrence to their bring Christians in Pakistan. There are churches,synagogues and temples in Pakistan.

Oh and btw? Jay Sean is Pakistani as well. His parents are from a town in Pakistan called Jhelum.

By: Rachel Peter

Rachel Peter — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:49:36 +0000

I’d jst like to say that it’s definitely possible to have a white name and be from Pakistan. I’m Christian and my family is from Karachi (my last name is Peter). But yea, i love love LOVE principal figgins!! he makes me proud to be a Paki haha and his one-liners are hilarious XD

By: Ghazal

Ghazal — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:51:50 +0000

okay i LOVED mr figgins, but i had no idea he was a karachiite!! he and dilshad vadsaria from greek officially make karachi proud haha. there are christians in pakistan but most are of goan or punjabi descent so they either have portuguese or punjabi (= very south asian sounding) names…maybe he’s supposed to be anglo-indian? i think they have british names. but yeah i wish desis on tv could be shown as ordinary Americans while having desi names, like other asians are, but either way, mr figgins is AWESOME!