By contrast, Minaret's conclusion is communalist in that Najwa chooses to valorize one particular group—the Islamicly devout and observant—against a distinct other group—the profane and the unbelievers—rather than to recycle humanism's usual accommodation with a bigger imaginative universe populated by those who are broadly sympathetic to an inclusive set of moral abstractions. To that extent, the novel feels dogmatic, not, as is the case in most literary fiction, pragmatic.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 506