Stereotyping the Followers of Islam

Stereotyping 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. …

…this comparison is that the two videos are of different countries, so it is hard to say if one was stereotyping the followers of Islam. From this comparison it is easy to see that the laws greatly effect what people perceive the laws of a religion to be. In conclusion, I believe that in order to end stereotyping, we must first accept other people for who they are and not by what their culture portrays.