Comparing Disney's Magic Carpet Ride: Aladdin And Women In Islam

Disney’s magic carpet ride: Aladdin and women in Islam is about how the Disney version of Aladdin portrays the women and men in Islam. I agree on a lot of the points in this article and disagree with only a few. This article talks mainly about how Disney could have done a better job with portraying Islam culture. The author of this article Christiane Staninger uses a lot of other authors from different papers to back up certain arguments that are being made about this Disney movie, and this movie has actually become the biggest money maker for Disney since the founding of a company. That raises a lot of questions like if they added more Islamic culture into it and made the characters more Islamic would it have still become one of Disney’s biggest …show more content…
The movies opening song “oh I come from a land / from a faraway place where the caravan camels roam. / where they cut off your ear / if they don’t like your face. / its barbaric, but hey, its home”. In the begging of the song it says I come from a place where the camels roam describing what it’s like there because they would mainly travel by camel but then its says a place where they will cut of your ear it’s kind of dark but that stuff actually happens there. In the Disney movie when jasmine breaks out of the palace and roams the street she steals an apple to give to some kids but the owner did not like that and the punishment four thieves it said was to cut off your hand which luckily for here Aladdin stopped him from doing so.
A big part of this article that I agree with is that Disney did not care about showing the true characteristics of a middle eastern woman. They are not giving as much credit as they deserve, many still think that the middle eastern woman is submissive, passive and quiet and were usually thought to be ruled by men at least that was the case back then but not anymore. They have actually been more powerful since the age of