We hear from women in Egypt about the continuous sexual harassment by muslim men. These women are many times not wear makeup, tight clothing or doing anything to attract attention. The men call them whores and prostitutes. They grab their asses and breasts. They gang up on them and they intimidate them. This happens in the street, right out in the open.
I thought that islam treats women with respect? They claim that women have equal rights. Yet these muslim men don't seem to know about their religion.
Noha Wagih says "Once I was out driving with my brother when he stopped at a supermarket and I waited for him outside. Two guys got out of a car and walked towards me in an intimidating way. They started commenting on the way I look and the way I'm dressed.
I usually don't answer back, but this time I said: 'I'm not here to get picked up, you know.' This was too much for one of them who started shouting that I was crazy. I replied that even if I were a prostitute, I wouldn't give him a second glance.
This made him mad. He came right up to me, shouting that he was a policeman and he would 'show me'. In no time three more cars pulled up, and a group of men got out and started yelling at me and my brother.
I wrote down the number of the first car saying I was going to report him. He got so angry I thought he was going to beat me, so I slapped his face and started shouting 'Rape!' They all ran away, and I was left alone with my brother shaking with fear.
After this experience I want to make a programme for TV about sexual harassment."
Read it all at:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7593765.stm
10 years ago
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