Ghetto Bully
Description
In the low-income housing blocks of the Paris suburbs, many residents are Muslim immigrants from Sharia-dominated societies, and their children struggle to find a balance between traditional and Western attitudes. In October of 2002, a local teenager named Sohane was attacked and set on fire, soon dying from her injuries. Her killer's motive? Sohane had spurned his advances, breaking one of the community's unwritten rules - women have no right to their own choices and must be "submissive." With that tragedy as a starting point, this film examines issues of gender equality, human rights, religious freedom, and cultural assimilation in the context of Europe's rapidly growing Muslim populations. Viewers meet a wide range of young French Muslims, both male and female, with equally wide-ranging attitudes - but a thug-like superiority disguised as religious devotion reigns among the teenage men. The work of Ni Putes Ni Soumises ("Neither Whores nor Submissives"), a women's activist group formed in response to misogynist brutality, is also a major topic.
Runtime
51 min
Subjects
- Religious institutions (185)
- Women (809)
- Sex and law (30)
- Equality (339)
- Interpersonal relations (422)
- Families (556)
- Social movements (245)
- Islam (232)
- Women's rights (215)
- Family violence (79)
- Sexism (149)
- Religion and sociology (173)
- Collective behavior (206)
- Religions (331)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2010
Database
Films on Demand
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