Sexuality and spirituality constitute a superstructure on which Ben Jelloun's plots are mostly founded. Reading his writing as gay and missiological discourse permits us to understand that Ben Jelloun's "multiple" transgressions enable him to challenge Eurocentric and traditional epistemologies, thereby deconstructing sexuality and spirituality in his Islamic society. Focusing on the Moroccan Diaspora and prospective migrants, it can be said that Ben Jelloun's homosexuality and spirituality are

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... not attitudinal, but commodified and commoditised, thereby leading to sexual and spiritual ambivalence of diasporic consciousness.