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Re: Moslem 'Sexual predators' prowl Egypt's streets - "In the sermons of wahhabi [ultra-conservative] preachers on satellite television, we hear the worst things about women, like the fact that they should not be on the street but at home ... th         

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Author: Yaako Warrior, slayer of shitskin moslems
Date: Nov 14, 2007 12:39

Gavin Chait - the Yaako Warrior from AUZ, China , Holland, Japan,
Singapore, RSA, USA, Sweden, Hong Kong, Canada, Russia, China, Denmark,
UK, .........., the slayer of shitskin moslems. wrote:
> Gavin Chait the Yaako Warrior from AUZ, China , Singapore, RSA, USA,
> Sweden, Hong Kong, Canada, Russia, China, Denmark, UK, .........., the
> slayer of shitskin moslems. wrote:
>> Gavin Chait the Yaako Warrior from AUZ, China , Singapore, RSA, USA,
>> Sweden, Hong Kong, Canada, Russia, China, Denmark, UK, .........., the
>> slayer of shitskin moslems. wrote:
>>> Moslem 'Sexual predators' prowl Egypt's streets
>>>
>>> From lewd looks to inappropriate touching, experts say Egypt's
>>> growing street harassment of women is a deep-rooted and largely
>>> ignored problem shackling the country's progress.
>>>
>>> Sexual harassment in public areas is not limited to a specific age
>>> category or social class, says the independent Egyptian Centre for
>>> Women's Rights (ECWR), which is spearheading a campaign against this
>>> "social cancer" in Egypt.
>>>
>>> Nor does an outward expression of piety protect from sexual
>>> harassment, generally defined as "all unwelcome behaviour of a sexual
>>> nature, making women feel uncomfortable and unsafe".
>>>
>>> "As soon as I step onto the street, I am surrounded by sexual
>>> predators," said Rasha Shaaban (23) from the Mediterranean city of
>>> Alexandria. "I don't feel safe, the problem is getting worse. It has
>>> become so bad that I want to leave Egypt."
>>>
>>> According to the state National Centre for Social and Criminal
>>> Research, sexual crimes are on the rise but while they give no
>>> official figures, ECWR says that two women are raped every hour in
>>> this country of 80-million and that 90%% of offenders are jobless men.
>>>
>>> There are many contributing factors to the increase in sexual
>>> harassment. Rising unemployment may push some men to display their
>>> machismo on the streets. The huge cost of marriage and the fact that
>>> sex outside marriage is forbidden may also explain the behaviour,
>>> experts say.
>>>
>>> "Men take out their frustration, not just sexual, against women,"
>>> said Engy Ghozlan, who runs the anti-harassment campaign at ECWR.
>>>
>>> But some men, who believe a woman's job is to look after the home,
>>> say that those out on the street are fair game.
>>>
>>> "When [a woman] walks out into the street in tight trousers and tight
>>> belts, she deserves what she gets," said Mohamed al-Sayyed (32) who
>>> works as an assistant at an upmarket hairdresser in Cairo.
>>>
>>> "The women who come here are different from the ones in my village,"
>>> he said.
>>>
>>> Sayyed grew up in a village near Menya, in the conservative Egyptian
>>> south. "My female relatives would never be seen swaying in the street
>>> like this," he said, defensively explaining the occasional wolf
>>> whistles "and more" he directs at Cairene women.
>>>
>>> One sociologist, Dalal al-Bizri, sees a strong link between growing
>>> religious conservatism and sexual harassment.
>>>
>>> She said that a puritan view of Islam brought over from religiously
>>> strict Saudi Arabia is partly responsible for the "culture of hate"
>>> against women.
>>>
>>> "In the sermons of wahhabi [ultra-conservative] preachers on
>>> satellite television, we hear the worst things about women, like the
>>> fact that they should not be on the street but at home ... that they
>>> have an inferior status," Bizri said.
>>>
>>> The damage is not only to women's psyche but to the whole country's
>>> economic development, according to ECWR.
>>>
>>> "There are women who stop going to work, or to university because of
>>> harassment," said Ghozlan. "How can the country develop if everyone
>>> doesn't mobilise against it?"
>>>
>>> "If the minister of tourism wants to keep his tourists, the security
>>> services should be stricter with people harassing women on the
>>> streets," she said. "If I went to a country where I wasn't respected,
>>> I wouldn't go back."
>>>
>>> However, one stumbling block is that authorities refuse to admit
>>> there is a problem, Ghozlan said. And when they do, it's a question
>>> of "OK, it exists, but it's very exaggerated in the media."
>>>
>>> According to her centre, of the 2 500 women who reported cases of
>>> sexual harassment to ECWR, only 12%% went to the police with their
>>> complaints.
>>>
>>> It is "a total lack of confidence in the police and judicial
>>> systems", she said.
>>>
>>> Following the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in 2006, women's rights
>>> activists angrily spoke out against what they called authorities'
>>> acceptance of sexual harassment against women, after a mob of men
>>> openly molested women in central Cairo.
>>>
>>> The incident was widely reported in the press, and some bloggers
>>> posted footage on their websites.
>>>
>>> "They were touching women all over, the veiled ones and the
>>> non-veiled ones," said Wael Abbas, an Egyptian blogger who witnessed
>>> the event.
>>>
>>> The Interior Ministry at the time denied any mass harassment took
>>> place, saying it had not received any formal complaints.
>>>
>>>
>>> HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, molest
>>> children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the time, never shower or
>>> bath, beat your wives, learn terrorist activities at a maddrassa,
>>> wipe your ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to a nearby
>>> village, marry a nine year-old , send your child off to an
>>> indoctrination camp, practice thighing with little kids,
>>> ............ Practice all those and you too could become a prophet !!
>> HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, molest
>> children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the time, never shower or bath,
>> beat your wives, learn terrorist activities at a maddrassa, wipe your
>> ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to a nearby village, marry
>> a nine year-old , send your child off to an indoctrination camp,
>> practice thighing with little kids, ............ Practice all those
>> and you too could become a prophet !!
> HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, molest
> children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the time, never shower or bath,
> beat your wives, learn terrorist activities at a maddrassa, wipe your
> ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to a nearby village, marry a
> nine year-old , send your child off to an indoctrination camp, practice
> thighing with little kids, ............ Practice all those and you too
> could become a prophet !!
HOW TO BECOME A SHITSKIN MOSLEM - this is how: fuck goats, molest
children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the time, never shower or bath,
beat your wives, learn terrorist activities at a maddrassa, wipe your
ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to a nearby village, marry a
nine year-old , send your child off to an indoctrination camp, practice
thighing with little kids, ............ Practice all those and you too
could become a prophet !!
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