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Egyptian Women Fighting Harassment - Muslim Brotherhood Blames Islamophobia

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2013 · People & Blogs

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The Egyptian women fighting harassment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22367447
"The issue of sexual harassment against women has been in the headlines again in Egypt after derogatory remarks were made to a female reporter by the country's Information Minister, Salah Abdul Maksoud. A recent UN survey said that 99.3% of Egyptian women reported facing sexual harassment, with 60% said they had been touched inappropriately. It is a problem that has increased over the years..." BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports from Cairo.

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Jihad Movement leader calls for applying Sharia (egyptindependent, Apr 14, 2013)
http://bit.ly/ZksGnA
"Circumstances in Egypt will not improve unless Sharia is applied, Jihad Movement Mufti Sayed Imam said. Imam said the Afghanistan's Taliban model and Somali Islamic rule are the best systems and most able to protect society from "thuggery" and rape..."

Egypt: activist Ziada, sad to say things better under Mubarak (ansamed, April 6, 2013)
http://bit.ly/Z9miMF
"... The activist, who was awarded a prize in 2010 by the Anna Lindh Foundation, told ANSAmed that 'it is sad to say that the situation for women was much better during the Mubarak era'. 'It was not the best possible but it was still better than today because there was a state which supported women's rights', she noted..."

Women violated in the cradle of Egypt's revolution, activists say (NBC, March 23, 2013)
http://nbcnews.to/11vo2pN
"Cairo's Tahrir Square, once the staging ground for the massive uprising that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, is quickly becoming notorious for something very different: an organized campaign of sexual assaults, activists say. The past year has seen an increase in attacks against women at demonstrations, but recently they have been particularly rampant -- and, according to witnesses and activists, they have been following similar patterns..."

Shura Council committee says female protesters should take responsibility, if harassed (egyptindependent, Feb 11, 2013)
http://bit.ly/U88DIa
"... 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 ..."

Group says sexual assaults on the rise in Tahrir Square (CNN, Jan 29, 2013)
http://bit.ly/Zm1oOt
"Sexual violence against female protestors at Cairo's Tahrir Square appears to be increasing, an activist group devoted to end such assaults said Tuesday. Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault said it intervened in 15 of 19 reported sexual assaults on Friday when 10,000 people gathered in the square on the two-year anniversary of the start of the revolution that ousted President Mubarak..."

It happens at night: Genital mutilation in Egypt (DW, Nov 22, 2012)
http://bit.ly/ThKXzJ
"Despite being legally banned, female genital mutilation in Egypt is on the rise, causing lifelong pains, health problems and even death for the women who undergo it. Islamists are pushing to legalize the procedure again ... Omayma Idris, a Cairo-based gynaecologist, says that more than 90 percent of all married Egyptians today are thought to have undergone mutilation. After the prohibition, she says, one could see a decline, "but since the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists are in power in Egypt, the numbers are on the rise again; they encourage families to do it again." 

Egypt's sexual harassment of women 'epidemic' (BBC, Sep 3, 2012)
http://bbc.in/RCRv6o
"Campaigners in Egypt say the problem of sexual harassment is reaching epidemic proportions, with a rise in such incidents over the past three months. For many Egyptian women, sexual harassment - which sometimes turns into violent mob-style attacks - is a daily fact of life, reports the BBC's Bethany Bell in Cairo ... Said Sadek, a sociologist from the American University in Cairo, says that the problem is deeply rooted in Egyptian society: a mixture of what he calls increasing Islamic conservatism, on the rise since the late 1960s, and old patriarchal attitudes."

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