Reporter who was sexually assaulted in Egypt uprising to speak on 60 minutes Sunday night
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................I lived in Egypt for almost 2 years. I saw absolutely nothing which would lead me to believe that rape is a part of the culture.
Anyone who would insinuate that it is a feeble-minded brainwashed idiot or a liar, in my opinion.
Ok, your unwarranted personal attack aside, how would you explain hundreds of men simultaneously sexually molesting/raping one woman, if it were not culturally acceptable among them at some level? Or, are you suggesting that none of these men were Egyptian?
The despicable Muslim treatment of women is one of the great incompatibilities between their culture and ours. Tolerance of slavery is another. In my view they will have treat women as equals and eliminate slavery before they should be considered anything but inimical to human freedom. Until them I consider them to be pests.
are you suggesting that none of these men were Egyptian?
No.
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Ok, your unwarranted personal attack aside,
It was no personal attack. It was my opinion. However, if you felt that it described you...
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how would you explain hundreds of men simultaneously sexually molesting/raping one woman, if it were not culturally acceptable among them at some level?
Egypt was scandalised last summer when an 11-year-old girl named Hend Farghali was allegedly raped by a 21-year-old man. Petrified, the girl did not tell anyone until she was five months pregnant.
Such extreme cases involving children may be beginning to change attitudes to rape in general which, though illegal, has traditionally been seen as more of a family misfortune rather than a crime.
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Hend is one of 20,000 women or girls raped every year, according to Egypt’s Interior Ministry, a figure which implies that an average of about 55 women are raped every day. However, owing to the fear of social disgrace, victims are reluctant to report cases, and experts say the number may be much higher.
“If the Ministry of the Interior gets 20,000 then you should multiply it by 10,” said Engy Ghozlan of the Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights (ECWR) anti-harassment campaign. It’s hard to tell [exactly how many women are raped] because there aren’t a lot of statistics. Most people won’t come out and say it happened because culturally it is not accepted.”
Rape statistics are notoriously problematic, partly because there is no precise, universally agreed definition of the crime of rape. In Egypt, for example, spousal rape is not illegal. “The law prohibits non-spousal rape and punishment ranges from three years to life imprisonment; however, spousal rape is not illegal,” says a US State Department country report for Egypt dated March 2006.
Don't send women to cover stories where they are in danger.
Rocket science, not.
Next?
It's not rocket science to google how many journalists have been injured and died ....there are many men....so using YOUR "rocket science" NO reporter or journalists should ever go where it's dangerous( where the STORY is )...right?
Between women getting raped in muslim Egypt, and little boys getting molested in Catholic churches, this just gives further credence that belief in organized religion is a mental disorder.
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