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Post by Ginger on Jan 5, 2016 16:32:25 GMT -4
But it's a hell of a lot easier to demonize Iranian muslims than Monegasques. I feel the need to commend you for the use of "Monegasques." Well done! And thanks to our sophisticated board's spell checker, I got the spelling right too.
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Post by chonies on Jan 5, 2016 16:54:37 GMT -4
Sidebar: thanks for the tip about the documentary, Ginger. I remember the reviews of the movie at the time as fairly scathing, so this is an interesting detail.
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Post by Witchie on Jan 5, 2016 18:15:56 GMT -4
I don't think she learned a damn thing. She's hoping they don't hate her once they learn the truth. What truth? Not the real truth, but her truth, which will make it seem as if Daniel was actively trying to keep her from them when that wasn't the case at all.
Her case wasn't all that different than many parental alienation custody cases. She tried to turn it into an international abduction case, when nothing was further from the truth.
Well, I suppose she's really happy now that she has a cover.
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Post by Ginger on Jan 5, 2016 19:44:09 GMT -4
Sidebar: thanks for the tip about the documentary, Ginger. I remember the reviews of the movie at the time as fairly scathing, so this is an interesting detail. The Without My Daughter documentary (which is on youtube) is pretty ridiculous - it's a lot of the father putting on Kelly Rutherford-style theatrics for the cameras. At one point he calls his adult daughter on the phone (who does not speak to him) and does some wailing and pleading on her answering machine for an uncomfortably long period of time. The images of Iran I have seen my whole life on the news made the Not Without My Daughter lady's descriptions of Tehran as a backwards place full of scary Islamic fundamentalists who never bathe and who smell underneath their unwashed hijab seem only slightly exaggerated. The documentary made me realize that Tehran is a very sophisticated city, that the husband is a shmuck but not a scary one, that her American friend in Iran who she portrayed as an abused prisoner seems like a normal lady who is happy with her life. People better educated than me about Iran might not need this counterpoint.
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Post by LurkerNan on Jan 6, 2016 15:31:51 GMT -4
I notice that Kelly said in the article that she remembered her childhood as recalling "her own parents' divorce and how she realized if her mother was happy, everything was okay in the world."
So her kids will be fine as long as Kelly gets what she wants and is happy? Allrighty then...
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Post by cubanitafresca on Jan 6, 2016 18:46:08 GMT -4
I notice that Kelly said in the article that she remembered her childhood as recalling "her own parents' divorce and how she realized if her mother was happy, everything was okay in the world." So her kids will be fine as long as Kelly gets what she wants and is happy? Allrighty then... Just like your typical narcissist ... it's all about her!
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garnet927
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Post by garnet927 on Jan 6, 2016 20:24:14 GMT -4
Sidebar: thanks for the tip about the documentary, Ginger. I remember the reviews of the movie at the time as fairly scathing, so this is an interesting detail. The Without My Daughter documentary (which is on youtube) is pretty ridiculous - it's a lot of the father putting on Kelly Rutherford-style theatrics for the cameras. At one point he calls his adult daughter on the phone (who does not speak to him) and does some wailing and pleading on her answering machine for an uncomfortably long period of time. The images of Iran I have seen my whole life on the news made the Not Without My Daughter lady's descriptions of Tehran as a backwards place full of scary Islamic fundamentalists who never bathe and who smell underneath their unwashed hijab seem only slightly exaggerated. The documentary made me realize that Tehran is a very sophisticated city, that the husband is a shmuck but not a scary one, that her American friend in Iran who she portrayed as an abused prisoner seems like a normal lady who is happy with her life. People better educated than me about Iran might not need this counterpoint. I was shopping at Barnes & Noble a week ago, and I saw that Mahtob Mahmoody has come out with her autobiography.
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Post by chonies on Feb 15, 2016 11:50:27 GMT -4
When I was reading up on Betty Mahmoody, I learned she had a few kids from her first marriage--what happened to them while she was in Iran? I read that they lived with their father, but I wonder how this affected their lives. Reality show pitch: Siblings of the Rich and Famous and/or infamous.
Anyway, this morning I encountered a student named Hermes (with a Greek surname) and I thought of this thread. That is all.
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boxofrocks
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Post by boxofrocks on Mar 29, 2016 0:33:19 GMT -4
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Post by Auroranorth on Mar 29, 2016 17:51:49 GMT -4
I read Mahtob Mahmoody's autobiography a week or so ago and it was really interesting. To the end of his life her father blamed everyone but himself for what went wrong. There was an email exchange in the book between her father and an old friend and the guy really called Mahmoody out, but he wasn't willing to admit to even the slightest mistake.
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