我要让他拿起自己的祷告毯，滚出我的房子。

当帕尔维兹的儿子阿里开始清理自己的卧室时，帕尔维兹以为他在吸毒，他要卖掉自己的财物去购买毒品。他的出租车司机同事都洋洋得意：他们知道出问题了。帕尔维兹（Bertina）经常开车送回家的妓女贝蒂娜（Bettina）告诉他应该注意什么迹象。

但是除了阿里在长胡子——每天祈祷五次外，阿里的身体没有什么不同。他谴责父亲喝酒和吃熏肉，并向他保证伊斯兰法将统治世界。

I'm going to tell him to pick up his prayer mat and get out of my house.

When Parvez's son Ali starts clearing out his bedroom, Parvez assumes he's taking drugs and selling his possessions to pay for them. His fellow taxi drivers are triumphant: they knew something was wrong. Bettina, the prostitute Parvez regularly drives home, tells him what signs to look out for.

But nothing is physically different about Ali except that he is growing a beard - and praying five times a day. He condemns his father for drinking alcohol and eating bacon, and assures him that the Law of Islam will rule the world.

First published in March 1994, Hanif Kureishi's comedy of assimilation is both uproariously funny and so prescient it's barely funny at all.