Posted on 08/23/2009 2:23:24 PM PDT by Borges
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian Bozorg Mahmoody, whose American ex-wife portrayed him as abusive in a controversial best-seller after escaping Iran with their daughter, died Saturday, official IRNA news agency reported.
Mahmoody, a US-educated doctor, "died in a Tehran hospital this morning because of kidney problems and other complications," his nephew Majid Ghodsi told IRNA. He was 70.
His ex-wife Betty Mahmoody portrayed him as abusive and domineering in the controversial best-seller "Not Without My Daughter" which she penned after fleeing Iran with the couple's daughter Mahtob in 1984.
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How odd; it is on the tube right now.
The movie portrayed a country run by Islamic nutjobs. Sounds pretty accurate to me.
Gulbuth awaits.
Exactly. She wrote a follow-up book about her experiences after joining an organization that helps other women and children in similar situations...all over the Middle East. Her experience was not a one-off by any means.
Ol’ Bozorg was just trying to out wait Obamacare.
I thought it was an EXCELLENT book.
More young people (girls) need to read such true stories before they marry people of other cultures with ties to their homelands.
The key was that on their plane trip to “visit” his homeland, Mahmoody confiscated his wife’s and daughter’s passports. It was all over after that.
While there is a happy ending, she went through hell and high water to get herself and her daughter out of the country. The US State Dept could do very little for her and nothing for her daughter.
PLEASE go out and get this page turner for your teenaged daughters. I too speak somewhat from experience, as this book came out AFTER I had already gone to live in my then-husband’s country. Nothing that horrible happened to me, but just buy this book for your girls...
I just watched that movie again the other night.
>> PLEASE go out and get this page turner for your teenaged daughters.
And point them to this website too:
Excellent Movie
Liberals learn the hard way.
I have been affiliated with the Iranian community for many years and can attest that the cultural underpinnings are designed to create an image over substance. There is a word in Arabic “ta’aruf” which means, “behavior that is appropriate and customary,” the concepts in side of this word are much more, that any action which does not comply or please everyone or demonstrates that you are well trained or educated is considered low class. In fact women will allow some of these men to abuse their families so that they are not abandoned or shunned by the community or family members just to save face or maintain title. Mothers will even allow predators to assault their children, daughters or other family so not to be labeled as related to the individual associated with the offense; no matter what it is.
It should be required reading by all grade 6 and 7 students, girls especially, before they start dating, and get sucked in by some Muslim exchange student shopping for a gullible American girl to bring home for a slave, and elevate his status in nutso-land.
Young American girls are sooo stupid; once prince charming has her in his power, there is no telling her what danger she is putting herself into. And once she goes for a holiday visit to prince charming's homeland, There is a 95% chance she is never coming back, and will never see her family again.
I thought it was one of the most frightening movies I’ve ever seen.
It makes me wonder why in the hell any American girl would find herself getting involved with a muslim man.
Especially in a muslim country where women basically have no rights of any kind.
Schadenfreude. I read this book twenty years ago, at which time I began to develop an antipathy toward islamics. To date they’ve done nothing to dispel that antipathy; rather, their behavior has reinforced my prejudice.
Prayers for a misguided soul.
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