Stereotyping the followers of
Stereotyping the followers ofStereotyping the Followers of Islam
The movie, Not Without My Daughter, begins when the family of Mahmoody, Mahtob, and Betty were visiting with the grandparents of Mahtob. Mahmoody, who is Muslim, decides to take his young family to Iran. He swears on the sacred Coran that nothing bad will happen to them. As it turns out, Iran had just finished their revolution and had gone back to the old ways, when women have minimal rights. Mahmoody decides to stay in Iran with his family and Betty can't do anything about it, but Betty and her daughter Mahtob manage to get back to America.
Stereotyping: A minor fault of all people today. What is it? It is the common mistake all people make when they think that a certain minority is all the same just because they may have seen one of the members. One example of this is the movie, Not Without My Daughter. This movie has a repetitive tendency to portray all male Iranians as wife beaters. This may seem pretty blunt, but in a way, it pretty much summarizes the antagonist of the plot.
The video I compared to this is called Islam in America. It showed almost all aspects of the Muslim religion in America today. The differences between the two may be because of the seperate countries, and after viewing Islam in America, I think that some of the instances in Not Without My Daughter were a bit exaggerated.
One part of the movie that set me off, was when Betty was doing something that Moody didn't like. He slapped her because she had disobeyed him. Is this realistic in the Muslim religion? Probably not. It might be in Iran, but probably not in the religion itself. One of the ideals of the Muslim religion...
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