Since the “Arab Spring” came to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood assumed power, sexual harassment, abuse, and rape of women has skyrocketed. This graph, which shows an enormous jump in sexual harassment beginning around January 2011, when the Tahrir revolts began, certainly demonstrates as much. Its findings are supported by any number of reports appearing in both Arabic and Western media, and from both Egyptian and foreign women.
Hundreds of Egyptian women recently took to the streets of Tahrir Square to protest the nonstop harassment they must endure whenever they emerge from their homes and onto the streets. They held slogans like “Silence is unacceptable, my anger will be heard,” and “A safe square for all; Down with sexual harassment.” “Marchers also shouted chants against President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails,” wrote Al Ahram Online
The response? More sexual harassment and rapes.
One woman recently appeared on Egyptian TV recounting her horrific experiences. On the program, she appeared shaded, to conceal her identity—less because she felt personal shame or guilt at what happened and more to protect her and her family from further abuses. She recounted how she saw a Facebook notice that Egyptian women were going to protest the unsafe conditions for women on the Egyptian street and decided to join them on their scheduled march in Tahrir Square on January 25, the anniversary of the revolution. “I did not realize I would become the victim,” she lamented. When it started to get dark, her group heard that “strange looking men” were appearing and that it was best to leave the area.
During some chaos she was lost from her group. One man told her “this way,” pretending to help her to safety—“I was so naïve to believe him!”—only to lead her to a large group of men, she estimated around 50, who proceeded to encircle and rape her. “This was the first time someone touched me” quietly recounted the former virgin: “Each one of them attacked a part of my body.” Several pinned her down while others pulled off her pants and stripped her naked, gang-raping her for approximately 20 minutes. She explained how she truly thought she was going to die, and kept screaming “I’m dying!” In response, one of her rapists whispered in her ears: “Don’t worry. Take it,” even as the rest called her derogatory names she would not recite on the air.
Considering that in late November last year, when many Egyptians were protesting President Morsi’s Sharia-heavy constitution and the Muslim Brotherhood responded by paying gangs and thugs to rape protesting women in the streets, anecdotes like the above are becoming commonplace. Indeed, to appreciate the regularization of sexual harassment and rape in Egypt, consider the words of popular Salafi preacher Abu Islam, who openly, and very sarcastically, blamed the victims:
“They tell you women are a red line. They tell you that naked women—who are going to Tahrir Square because they want to be raped—are a red line! And they ask Mursi and the Brotherhood to leave power!” Abu Islam added that these women activists are going to Tahrir Square not to protest but to be sexually abused because they had wanted to be raped. “They have no shame, no fear and not even feminism. Practice your feminism, sheikha! It is a legitimate right for you to be a woman,” he said. “And by the way, 90 percent of them are crusaders [i.e. Christian Copts] and the remaining 10 percent are widows who have no one to control them. You see women talking like monsters,” he added.
No doubt some will argue that Abu Islam is just a “radical” who speaks for himself. Yet many more formal bodies made similar observations, including the new Egyptian parliament’s Shura Council’s “human rights committee,” whose members said
that women taking part in protests bear the responsibility of being sexually harassed, describing what happens in some demonstrators’ tents as “prostitution.” Major General Adel Afify, member of the committee representing the Salafi Asala Party, criticized female protesters, saying that they “know they are among thugs. They should protect themselves before requesting that the Interior Ministry does so. By getting herself involved in such circumstances, the woman has 100 percent responsibility.”
These sentiments are widely shared in Egypt. A study by the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights said that 98% of foreign female visitors and 83% of Egyptian women have experienced sexual harassment. Sixty-two percent of men admitted to harassing women, while 53% blame women for “bringing it on.”
Even non-Egyptian women are becoming increasingly familiar with this phenomenon. After describing her own personal experiences with sexual harassment in Egypt, Sarah A. Topol asserts that “Sexual harassment — actually, let’s call it what it is: assault — in Egypt is not just common. It’s an epidemic. It inhabits every space in this society, from back alleys to the birthplace of the newest chapter of Egyptian history.… For the 18 days of protest last year, for me, Tahrir Square was a harassment-free zone. I noticed it, everyone did. But as soon as President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, the unity ended and the harassment returned.”
Journalists Sophia Jones and Erin Banco also elaborated on the epidemic of sexual harassment in Egypt:
It’s difficult to write about sexual harassment and assault in Egypt without sounding like Angry White Girls. But as journalists, it is not merely our job to report in such an environment, it is an everyday psychological and sometimes even physical battle. We open our closets in the morning and debate what to wear to lessen the harassment—as if this would help. Even fully veiled women are harassed on Cairo’s streets. As one young Cairo-based female reporter recently remarked, “it’s a f–ked-up reality that we will be touched.”…. Like hundreds of other countries around the world, sexual harassment and assault happens everyday in Egypt. It happens to both Egyptian women, and to foreign women. It happens at all times of the day, despite what some may think, at the hands of men—young boys, grown men, police officers, military officers, and almost everyone in between.
The journalists then offer an all too familiar story:
Nor is this merely limited to sexual harassment, but it often, under the right circumstances—few witnesses, the availability of dark allies—culminates into fullblown gangrape. For example, Natasha Smith a young British journalist covering Tahrir Square, was dragged from her male companion into a frenzied mob in the hundreds. “Men began to rip off my clothes,” she wrote on her blog. They “pulled my limbs apart and threw me around. They were scratching and clenching my breasts and forcing their fingers inside me in every possible way … All I could see was leering faces, more and more faces sneering and jeering as I was tossed around like fresh meat among starving lions.”
All this is yet one more example of the true nature of the Obama-supported “Arab Spring.”
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The entire "Arab Spring" has been proven to be a horrific nightmare, yet Obama and surrogates will never admit it, including many Repubs. This is a tragedy and a travesty.
Consider: http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/27/northeast-int…
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/29/republican-na…
Besides, it is too late to put the Islamic nightmare back in the bottle. More nightmares are sure to unfold.
Adina Kutnicki, Israel – http://adinakutnicki.com/about/
God in heaven has warned us for many years, if you turn from me, I will turn from you. Let us turn back to God and ask for His forgiveness through the precious blood of Jesus Christ our KING.
The god of Islam is a war god known as well as the Moon god. There is no spiritual power in the beast it is for evil only. Islam is pure evil. The spiritual battle rages on, and only repenting to the Son for forgiveness will allow you the safety of salvation from no other than Jesus our Lord. Canada, wake up, God is calling.
Very well said, Mark. Allah is the Beast of Rev. and Mohammed is the False Prophet . The comming muslim Mahdi is the Anti-Christ. They all make up the Diabolical Trinity.
Thank-you Raymond!!!
The stupidity of this administration in initiating and encouraging the rise of radical Islam beggars belief. And who suffers? For sure, it is not those self satisfied dolts in WDC. But then, maybe it was not stupidity but a deliberate act while fully understanding the probable outcome?
It is not Stupidity, it is their, Obama's PLAN. Obama is a Muslim, check out his Muslim Faith Ring, he wears it 24/7 and has since 1981. He used it as his wedding ring when he Sham Married Michelle.
As usual the Liberal feminists are quiet on this issue. They want to live in the illusion that the Arab Spring was a success and Egypt is now a democracy. Egypt needs a different kind of revolution, one in which the women are both educated and armed.
Oh the liberal feminists have been very silent to offer any support to women oppressed under Islam and all Islamic countries. For them "political correctness" trumps everything in life!
Sounds like a ready market for a bunch of Pepper Spray!
REALLY???? maybe you aren't reading the articles that would prove you wrong, and choosing how you source your information. Plenty of women are concerned about this and all cultures of rape, regardless of who is in power in any nation.
http://jezebel.com/5990651/i-was-raped-in-tahrir-…
Where is the outrage from the feminist organizations? I guess they can only be bothered with the fictitious "war on women" and not with real abuse.
The feminists are a bunch of commie front groups and they're in cahoots with both the Muslims and the eco-radicals. It was never about making life better for women – only about political and economic power for the "movement" leaders.
your problem is that you havent grasped the fact that "womens rights" groups limit their venom to white men. any depredation upon women that is not performed by white men is of no concern to them. they view other organizations that hate white men as allies, and will continue to consider islam a friend until they have castrated the last white man. then, reality may start to set in.
Can someone answer two questions:
1. Did we give money to Egypt to support the 'arab spring'?
2. What part did 'hellary' clinton have in arab spring?
Well there is a war on women and this takes place under the government of Morsi,anointed by Benghazi Barack.So deafining silence from the "great man"!
That's what you get when you vote out of guilt for centuries of abuse of US Blacks; you end up with a simulated Black, an amateur gone wild, and Chicago thuggery all rolled into one. His wife might have done a better job. I recently retired abroad and the picture of the US has become frightening to me.
Free countries would do well by stopping the imigration of Islamic men. These men have no self-control when women or girls are involved. Women should be given every opportunity to leave Islamic countries.
See my post below…..
Require that they publicly apostasize from Islam – both by voice and in writing – before letting them in.
And have them eat a large ham sandwich washed down with a beer served by a woman visited by aunt flo.
my sympathy for the abused muslim woman is limited. the muslim woman is a willing accomplice to the evil of islam, and in my admittedly unhumble opinion, should stay in her islamic paradise and continue to enjoy all the benefits of islam until she is ready to destroy it. every islamic monster had a muslim mother who did not properly instruct him in basic humanity in his formative years. instead, he got a steady diet of islamic inhumanity. we do not need muslim men in the west, nor do we need muslim women.
Kas, keep banging your head on the floor 5 times a day and forced to learn a book by rote front to back….brainwashed. Mind you the anointed one did that for most of his youth….where do you think his loyalties lie? Arab Spring comes to mind….
Flee Islam, embrace Christianity where husbands are to love their wives sacrificially.
A better idea would be if women would get together and leave Egypt. Then Islam in Egypt would collapse; because there would be no one for the Islamists to blame their failings on. The Jews are gone from Egypt, the Copts are an endangered and shrinking minority; thus if women leave Egypt, who will these troglodytes have to blame?
Dear God! How insane does the world have to get before our blindness turns into sight? Sophia Jones' account was a scene from Hell itself. If one can't see either the need for redemption or for judgment–"choose this day"–then one is tightly holding their eyes closed.
Who in and from the West (except the pathological and the insane), which has been fundamentally influenced by Jesus Christ, could or would try to excuse any of this?!
Places in the west like Steubenville, Ohio. Don't fool yourself that America's patriarchal Christian football culture is any better than this.
We might need to look at what is going on in Egypt and elsewhere in the ME as terror attacks on women rather than sexual acts by men who cannot control themselves. This is far from the reality. Rather it is part of the process to get these women back under control as laid out in the Koran and as interpreted by Mullah's. For example, 60 years ago in Saudi Arabia women did not have to dress in Black head to foot. In Iran pre 1979 women could dress as they pleased. In Egypt, pre-Arab Spring women could dress as they pleased. These rapes and attacks on women are not spontaneous. They are deliberate, intended to terrorize to the point that women are covered head to foot, are escorted by male and that they stay at home like a well trained Dog. Welcome to the reality as this is about the Islamization of a people and Democracy is not what the MB want. Hence the post Arab Spring attacks on Copt's, Christians, Jews and not least terrorist attacks on emancipated females.
The Religion of Peace, What a Lie, just like their Prophet. They should all be hunted down, exterminated and eliminated like cockroaches. They are EVIL, their Prophet is Evil, their God, Allah is EVIL. everything about Islam is evil.
Right on, Willy.
>"All this is yet one more example of the true nature of the Obama-supported “Arab Spring.”<
No! I would say this the true nature of Islam and Muslims!!
Islam turns humans into moral savages!
Obama is not stupid, eberything that has happened is part of his Plan, the Saudi Plan, the Wahabbi Plan, George Soros plan. They are very powerful, wealthy and EVIL. And their plan is proceeding as designed. Nothing that happens is an Accident. But the two Seals that fought to save Chris Stevens at Benghazi was not in their plans. It could if followed to the End, END the Obama's Communist/Muslim Overthrow of the USA's Government.
Women rise up to the occasion. Watch out for each other. Be proficient in weaponry and self defense.
If authorities disregard your fundamental Rights, they don’t deserve your respect.
No Rapist deserves to live. Eliminate them all.
And that is why there are constant protests in Egypt.
I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT WHEN THE CNN GIRL GOT RAPED AND THEY ALMOST RAPED THE ANDERSON GUY. RAPE IS THE MOST INHUMAN FORM OF INTIMIDATION. SADAAM HUSSEIN ROUNDED UP KUWAITI MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS AND SENT THEM TO THE KUWAIT ZOO TO BE RAPED BY HIS TROOPS POURING INTO KUWAIT. IT IS A WAR TACTIC. IT IS PART OF THE HUMILIATION PROCESS. THE AMERICAN CREED THAT WE AS AMERICANS MUST ASPIRE TO IS THE STRONG MUST ALWAYS PROTECT THE WEAK IN CLUDING THE UNBORN. http://WWW.SPIRITOFAMERICAPARTYRADIOSHOW.COM
if American woman do not get wise to this Islam, then it will happen to them. Our government is infiltrated with muslims that want Islam to be the one and only religion in America and our POTUS does nothing,because he is a muslim and followed Islam. The women of America will be the ones that will be effected by this infection called Islam.
American comedian Dennis Miller had the right idea – drop the 'big Portobello' on them.
For anyone out there who wants to moan about innocents – an innocent person, particularly the women would probably prefer to be vaporized over living in the hell of sharia law.
Dennis Miller is an insecure average talent.
….. with an avarage intellect whom owns a thesaurus.
Dennis Miller is full of himself…he is much as YOU, – "Lady Doctor"
Dennis Miller exploits the Right.
What?…explain yourself….your sounding like a numb nut. Educate us please.
This is Islam. What do you think of it now, Naomi Wolfe?
Why do we here nothing or next to nothing about this from Western feminists, from "progressives" and "liberals" in the U.S. and certainly nothing from the U.S. government/ The West must break the silence. You don't have to hate every Muslim as some of the commentators on this site unfortunately do in order to speak out against these horrific attacks on women. The policy of the U.S. government in demanding that Mubarak had to step down was the beginning of the end of any hope for democracy in Egypt. Unfortunately, in Egypt the vast majority of people is ignorant and uneducated and also it should be added taught to hate by equally ignorant clerics. Mubarak it also should be noted, while keeping the lid on the boiling pot helped to spread hatred toward Jews in the media and did nothing to educate the majority of Muslim men that they have no right to believe in male supremacy and that attacks on women are wrong. It is also true that the Muslim Brotherhood is directly responsible for these barbaric acts against women and their aim is total subjugation of women.
There can be no compromise with Muslims. To respect them is to disrespect oneself. To offer them friendship is to be the enemy of every decent human being.
They're not allowed friends with non muslims anyhow.
Surah 9, it's the gift that keeps explaining all this islamic insanity.
9:23 O ye who believe! Choose not your fathers nor your brethren for friends if they take pleasure in disbelief rather than faith. Whoso of you taketh them for friends, such are wrong-doers.
About a year or so ago a popular Egyptian woman journalist went on Egyptian television and advocated that Arab men should sexually harrass Israeli women. Hmmmm….be careful what you advocate for others my dear Egyptian sisters– you just might become the recipients of all that you wish on others. As for the female foreign journalists: your plight does not stir my sympathy. For years and even now you demonize Israel, a country where women can walk freely, join the army, carry a weapon, serve in the government, and which has the highest number of female entreneurs in the world. Israel is the only country in the Middle East where female genital mutilation is illegal and where honor killings and forced marriages are illegal. Yet it is Israel in your minds which is brutal. May every day you spend in Egypt and in any other Arab country be one long be one long group grope.
Perhaps, similar to capturing and sterilizing feral animals we should start capturing rape squad koranimals and relieve them of their weapons. Dress them in burkas before throwing them back in the midst of their own kind, and let's see how they like their own medicine.
Relieve them of their weapons? Lorena Bobbit style?
A belated, but nevertheless resounding affirmative!
It would have been thought some macabre story of serial insanity in which men become
evil beasts and change to demons with murderous intent of self and others for vile and
incomprehensible ends. Evil itself is against man and all of creation per the oldest of
Biblical literature in which everyone is warned to carry themselves in certain demeanor
but having changed from the standards and accepting devolvement a line has been
crossed and the slippery slope is a place where we see the cascading of human life
into hell. It is the advent of Islamic ruin spreading into the World. Thus it is
understood why the West fought so hard and ruthlessly to stop and destroy it, earlier
generations knew what they were doing and today this evil is accelerating with no real
opposition though there is plain and clear evidence of the eminent destruction ahead……….William
The "story of serial insanity" you speak of is known as Islam, a.k.a. The religion of peace as developed by an illiterate camelherd possessed by demons and known as Mohammed, (piss be upon him).
I'm really sad to the increasing rate of crimes against the woman peoples, brutal rapes are increasing day by day and it’s high time to take proper actions or it’s questioning about the current law and justice system. We need an effective and systemic solution for preventing this type of ruthless crime or government should allow a gun for each woman in the country for self saving. In fact, the criminals must be punished with a death penalty to reduce rape and other crimes with women. Some days ago in Delhi, the capital of India had an incident in the same type of brutal gang rape in the running bus. Really very sad that she died from her injuries thirteen days later while undergoing emergency treatment in Singapore for brain and gastrointestinal damage. So, all of these stories tells the false and unsafe protection policies of government. The government should take immediate action and high security for ensuring the safety of woman because so many women’s would like to visit India to explore their tours and vacations. So, without a proper safety to walk in street how can they live in this world?
I wish so many of those who place comments that demonize all Muslims in Egypt would use their brains. Yes, the barbaric acts of Egyptian men must be condemned but to say that every Muslim man is a rapist is just not true or to demand that every Muslim embrace Christ does not help the situation!!!!! There are educated Christian and Muslim Egyptians including men who oppose the barbarism endemic in Egyptian society. The Muslim Brotherhood which is a cynical group of fascists approves of rape of women whether they be Egyptian or Western women. They wish to subjugate women in Egypt totally. They hate America and the openly say that the Jews everywhere are descended from apes and pigs. Their views unfortunately are the views of the ignorant Arab "street." They unfortunately were the people who elected the Muslim Brotherhood to rule Egypt. America must make it clear that we regard the Muslim Brotherhood as fascists who are our enemies. All U.S. government aid to Egypt must be stopped. The U.S. should work with those in the Egyptian military who are pro-American at least and liberal Muslim and Christian Egyptian women and men to topple the Muslim Brotherhood regime if that is possible and impose the rule of law and end the barbarism, and impose equality of women and the rights of people to live freely. Everything short of free elections must be imposed because Egypt is not mature enough for elections. If we decide not to follow that path then we must boycott Egypt and arm her enemy, Israel so that Egypt can't attack Israel. The fall of Mubarak which was encouraged be CNN and most of Western media and by President Obama ended the hope of Egypt slowly evolving into a liberal democracy. Mubarak understood Egypt but he stubbornly failed to reform his rule. The U.S. should have pushed him harder to make reforms or have military aid cut. No U.S. government pursued that policy. Republican Presidents and Democratic Presidents saw Mubarak as our ally and told him he must liberalize but no U.S government backed up threats with cuts in military aid to Egypt. Obama made the house of cards collapse when he demanded that Mubarak step down. The result: elections that brought to power an anti-American, woman hating, Jew hating, Christian hating government that is our enemy. Now intelligent minds will have to find a way forward. As with Humpty Dumpty the pieces cannot be put together again.
RE: "The ‘Epidemic’ of Sexual Harassment—and Rape—in Morsi’s Egypt »"
OH! ~ I thought You meant the American Taxpayer! ……carry on.
In the book FOR GOD OR FOR TYRANNY written by a former Muslim on page 270 reads "The hatred of women in an Islamic society is so immense that even if a women is raped, she is stoned to death." In Islam there is no limit to just how unfair, unjust and heinous things can be. Furthermore, It is not only very wrong to blame the female who was raped and not the rapist but it's also outragous and absurd.
Moreover, the Bible teaches "Acquitting the guilty and condemming the innocent – the Lord detest the both." Proverbs 17;15. [NIV]
This is Obama's fault. We had a stable ally in Mubarek. Obama wanted the muslim brother hood and he knew they would allow this.
Obama, why not send your wife and daughters to visit Egypt without protection and see how you like barbarism up close? Oh, you only want consequences for everyone else.
By definition Obama is evil and has blood on his hands.
This is why we have the 2nd Amendment.
If only Obama would close Guantanamo, and the Israelis stop building apartments, the rapes would stop.
At least that's what leftists believe.
What difference, at this point, does it make? – Hillary Clinton
The very term "Arab Spring" is Western media propaganda.
In Moslem countries it's called the Islamist Awakening. And that's all it is.
And Obama knows it. But don't blame Obama, this administration is the product
of three generations of leftist stupidity. Even Bill Ayers was lefty moron because
that's what he was exposed to in University.
The very term "Arab Spring" is Western media propaganda.
In Moslem countries it's called the Islamist Awakening. And that's all it is.
And Obama knows it. But don't blame Obama, this administration is the product
of three generations of leftist stupidity. Even Bill Ayers was lefty moron because
that's what he was exposed to in University.
You cant unring that bell….Insipid evil.
While I agree with Mark that not all Muslim men are bad or not all Muslims are evil,but I've got a question for them. Where were those people when all those terrorist attacks have been going on for decades? I heard no condemation of this stuff from the Muslim world at ANY time. The majority of Muslims celebrated the mass murder of three thousand Americans on 9/11. How did you think that made US feel. These people lost my sympathy a long time ago.
Just because the cameras weren't on Egypt doesn't mean that it didn't happen before
you people are seeing what you want to see, suddenly there is a Muslim movement and everybody is all eyes open- cameras rolling i mean come on there are rapes everywhere in the world you don't cry about them do you?
I've just come back from a month long holiday in Luxor. To read a survey which says 98 percent of tourists were sexually harassed surprises me – I can't understand why it isn't 100percent. If I was shopping and not interested in buying the sales pitch often turned to a blunt request for sex, if you continue not to buy anything the seller might follow you mouthing filth. It was exhausting! Most of the time I was covered neck to toe with a scarf over my head. It didn't help.
On the other hand there were many nice Egyptian men and boys who didn't seem to be completely ruined by that society. I gave one of my young male friends a hug goodbye and he got a massive erection, to be honest I just felt sorry for him. In a 'normal' western society a guy his age would be dating girls, experimenting with sex and possibly have his own car. In Egypt he's hardly ever even spoken to a woman before, let alone kissed one. You can't blame him for being confused. This confusion is of course no excuse for rape or harassment… but it doesn't help.
If you want the rapes to stop in Egypt women need to be treated as humans, not commodities. 95 percent of Egyptian women have had there clitorises and inner labia removed with intent to control their sexual desire and therefore make them docile. You hardly ever see them outside or working, and never at cafes and leisure places which are just occupied by men. Woman are treated as a possession… first by their families and later by their husbands. There needs to be a major attitude change here, and it is more than just religion, politics and education…. there needs to be a complete re-writting of all these things…. but the women themselves need to rise up and fight… I think that is the only way.