his brothers allowed their families to watch un-Islamic movies and comedies on their TVs.
Islamic comedies follow the tried and true trope of a n ugly woman borrowing the burka of an attractive woman, and the comedy of errors and misidentification this causes. Eventually, the enamored and ensnared man catches a glimpse of a thick ankle, but by then he has realized that a woman's true beauty is inside, just as Allah intended, and that a surely as the burka of cloth hides the flesh beneath, a burka of flesh hides that inner beauty.
It was an extension, of sorts, of the time-word adage: never judge a woman's ankle by the cloth of her veil.
