Sexual harassment in Egypt commensurate with rise of Islamic influence
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The recent heinous event of CBS war correspondent Lara Logan’s beating and subsequent rape by a mad group of Egyptian soldiers has opened the debate of women and their plight in Egyptian society.
Women’s Lens has been following this plight as far back as 2008, and recommends the reading of the following articles to get a better understanding of the sexual harassment phenomenon in Cairo.
Chilling sexual harassment on tour of Egypt - sexual harassment is not limited to Egyptian women. (10/12//2008). As the editor, I penned the following note:
If the government and the Egyptians themselves don't realize that all of this, and more of what you'll read is proportionately a direct result of the islamization of the country, then they might as well bring down the curtain. All of this covering up, this return to a fundamentalism that was absent in the Egypt I grew up in is unhealthy. It matters little that it can be ascribed to dogma picked up in Saudi Arabia while Egyptians went there for work during shortages in Egypt. It should have been "nipped in the bud" as it started to rear its ugly head, and look where it has taken the country.. backwards.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: Sexual harassment in Egypt commensurate with rise of Islamic influence - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/sexual-harassment-egypt-comme...
Women’s Lens has been following this plight as far back as 2008, and recommends the reading of the following articles to get a better understanding of the sexual harassment phenomenon in Cairo.
Chilling sexual harassment on tour of Egypt - sexual harassment is not limited to Egyptian women. (10/12//2008). As the editor, I penned the following note:
If the government and the Egyptians themselves don't realize that all of this, and more of what you'll read is proportionately a direct result of the islamization of the country, then they might as well bring down the curtain. All of this covering up, this return to a fundamentalism that was absent in the Egypt I grew up in is unhealthy. It matters little that it can be ascribed to dogma picked up in Saudi Arabia while Egyptians went there for work during shortages in Egypt. It should have been "nipped in the bud" as it started to rear its ugly head, and look where it has taken the country.. backwards.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: Sexual harassment in Egypt commensurate with rise of Islamic influence - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/sexual-harassment-egypt-comme...
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