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Women harassed, attacked in Tahrir Square (Muslim Jeffersonian Democracy)
Hot Air ^ | Allahpundit

Posted on 03/08/2011 3:50:27 PM PST by GOPGuide

This wasn’t the only ominous confrontation today in Egypt: Crowds of Muslims and Coptic Christians ended up throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at each other after a protest over a church-burning over the weekend. I want to focus on the women’s protest, though, partly because of the location, partly because it’s International Women’s Day, and partly because I got to “watch” it happen, sort of, in real time this morning. (More on that below.) CNN is reporting what happened as a case of “shouting matches” between women in the Square demanding equal rights and men opposed to them, but things went waaaay beyond that.

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The AP, acknowledging that sexual harassment is widespread in Egypt, says what started with heckling ended with shoving, groping, and even beatings. And, as with the attack on Lara Logan, it didn’t stop until the Egyptian army intervened. Quoth one woman protester: “I thought we were going to be celebrated as women of the revolution because we were present during the days of Tahrir. Unless women are included now, we are going to be oppressed.” Foreign Policy editor Blake Hounshell started retweeting reports from English-speaking Egyptian women in the Square while this was all going on, which is how I came to follow the story. Here’s a selection of them from his Twitter feed; it’s in reverse sequence, so read from the bottom up to see how it unfolded. Hounshell’s verdict, delivered amidst these reports: “What’s going on in Tahrir Square right now is a national tragedy for Egypt.”

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The turnout against Mubarak in Tahrir Square was on the order of hundreds of thousands; the turnout today for women’s rights, less than a month after revolutionary brotherhood swept the old bastard from power, was by some estimates less than 100. Quote: “‘I’ve never been as afraid as I am now in all my years in Egypt,’ she said, watching men deride women standing nearby and yell: ‘The people want to bring women down!’” So there’s where things stand today in the heart of the new Middle East. For an equally pessimistic take, read Hitchens’s new piece in Vanity Fair explaining why he can’t get excited about the Egyptian revolution. And in case you’re wondering, no, there’s no coverage of this yet at Al Jazeera’s website that I’ve been able to find. There is, to their credit, this overview of sexual harassment and women’s rights in Egypt but nothing about the ugliness in Tahrir Square. That’s not the first time they’ve quietly overlooked a story about an attack on women that would reflect badly on the revolution. Probably won’t be the last.


TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democracy; egypt; islam; rop
Praise Allah! Mubarak is gone, democracy is here!
1 posted on 03/08/2011 3:50:33 PM PST by GOPGuide
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To: GOPGuide

to all you ululating muslim female university students in hijabs and headscarfs -

be careful what you ask for, you might get it


2 posted on 03/08/2011 3:58:30 PM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: GOPGuide
The US news media, suffering cognitive dissonance (again), shrugs and moves on to the next 'popular movement'.
3 posted on 03/08/2011 4:03:55 PM PST by skeeter
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To: GOPGuide

Democracy Whiskey Molesty


4 posted on 03/08/2011 4:18:30 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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I'm thinking that what's being described as harassed would be criminal in most of the west

5 posted on 03/08/2011 5:07:34 PM PST by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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To: skeeter

The BS media is too busy waving the Charlie Sheen debacle around as a distraction.

It’s a shame that this happened to those women today. Unless women work to change Islam from the inside, nothing will ever change. I was rooting for them today.


6 posted on 03/08/2011 5:10:54 PM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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Thanks GOPGuide.
Crowds of Muslims and Coptic Christians ended up throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at each other after a protest over a church-burning over the weekend. I want to focus on the women's protest, though, partly because of the location, partly because it's International Women's Day, and partly because I got to "watch" it happen, sort of, in real time this morning. (More on that below.) CNN is reporting what happened as a case of "shouting matches" between women in the Square demanding equal rights and men opposed to them, but things went waaaay beyond that.
Gosh, it's almost as if Islam is just medieval fascism, and the Koran a medieval Mein Kampf.


7 posted on 03/08/2011 6:10:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: silverleaf
to all you ululating muslim female university students in hijabs and headscarfs

be careful what you ask for, you might get it

Is that you, Marie?


8 posted on 03/08/2011 9:03:55 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Don't confuse Obama's evil for incompetence.)
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To: GOPGuide

“(Unless[deleted]) women (are included now,[deleted]) we are going to be oppressed.”

“Praise Allah! Mubarak is gone, democracy is here!”

Yes! Life, liberty and the pursuit of willing and/or unwilling poon! Milton! Thou shouldst be living in this day (so we could stone you to death)!


9 posted on 03/09/2011 12:43:43 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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