I don't think either one of us are familiar with that way of life, and especially how it would have been when the movie sets it. While things are changing over there with women's rights, the view on the veil and stuff is still mixed between some traditionalists(which include women) and the next generation of women there. Things are changing. It's not the way of life you or I have grown up with or been around though, so I know I can't speak about it with full knowledge and information.

I just don't see Kristin taking a role she doesn't believe in or take it just because she wants to get paid. That's not how she works, and given her track record seems fairly clear that's how it is with her.

Whatever your perception of Muslims and Islam, Kristin took this part because she loved the script, believed in the project and story, and to challenge herself. She didn't lower herself in any way to me. Reread her Diary entry on the Partition site, she puts it's better than I can.