This documentary made me again think that there is such a wide variety of ideologies between people who believe in Islam. The narrative of the film started by showing how banning hijab in France in public school has had deep effects on Muslim women. A relatively large group of women became deprived of the right of getting an education because this policy. Even though in some interviews with the French authorities they claimed that this law will prevent Muslim woman from being dominated, it did the exact opposite of making them more suppressed.

After interviewing Muslim women in France (which is secular country) who thought their freedom was taken away from them by the ban, they showed an interview with a Muslim woman from Iran (which is a theocracy) who thought that being enforced to comply with the society’s Islamic values had taken away her freedom. These two interviews had a lot of contradictions in their scenarios and what I thought was that it is not a good way of thinking, comparing these two. These two people were from completely different Islamic backgrounds and that was one of the reasons they had different experiences with Islam: one was a Sunni Muslim from Syria (Being Sunni was obvious from the way she was praying) and the other was a Shia from Iran (majority of population is Shia). These people did not have the same the same historical backgrounds and they did not live in the same societies. The problem is that our understanding of the world is relative and we learn in context. As a person who has lived in Iran before I thought I would relate to the second person better. Despite that I thought that I must try to understand the first person’s issues from her own perspective. After watching this film, I wished that we could have better understandings of people’s ideologies.