Stereotypes In The Film Islamophobia

In the beginning of the film, we meet an 18 year old, French born Muslim girl. Her and her family live in the outskirts of France, which is home to many immigrants. Her parents came to France from Morocco. She is a top-achieving student at her school. She has been rigorously studying for her test she must take to attend upper level school. She is passionate about her studies, and plans to do great things with her education.
We begin to learn, in this film, that hate crimes against Muslims were on the rise. The term used to describe this hate is “Islamophobia.” Muslim is France’s second largest religion with Catholicism being number one. In September 2004, there was a ban placed on religious symbols being seen or worn at schools. This ban included the traditional, Muslim headscarf. This ban states “all religious symbols,” but it is understood that it is directed …show more content…
He is one of very few teachers who believe the ban on the scarf is discriminatory. The teacher choses to live and raise his family in the immigrant ghettos even though he can afford middle class housing. This raises many questions among his colleagues because the media reports the crimes, drugs, and violence among these ghettos. What the media does not show is that 30% of the Muslim people living in the ghettos are unemployed because they cannot get a stable job because of their name. French rap music expresses the frustration the people living in these ghettos feel about the violence.
The film shows an interview of four French Muslim men who are expressing their thoughts. They all agree to the fact that they do not “feel French.” They are treated like outcast because they are not French by blood. They feel as thought they have lost their identity because they have been stripped of their own heritage. Even if the men wanted to get back to their Muslim roots, they could not because they were deemed