Last night I read an angry email arrived to Wael Abbas that he decided to share with his Yahoo group , they were two emails in one , testimonies of sexual harassments that happened in the feast on last Tuesday Downtown Cairo and in Alexandria , the two girls are foreigners and not Muslims
The first girl who was a victim from the victims of Downtown opened her fire on Egypt, Egyptians and Islam in a disgusting way , all her words in curses and insults of "fucks" and "walad Kalab,son of bitches" to the rest of this angry dirty vocabulary
Look I understand her anger , it is hard to be harassed in a foreign country despite the fact that being a foreigner in this country "Egypt" is like an immunity and protection to you , it is true if you got another passport ,you can simply go to your embassy ,apply a complain and your Embassy will help you to get your rights back . Anyway as I said I understand her anger
but we must here think logically ,
- Do all Egyptians approve on this shameful act?
No ,they don't ,in fact the majority is against it and they are shocked to know that this is happening on this scale
- Does the Islam encourage this kind of behavior and call for it ?
No, for sure ,it is against it totally, in fact it punishes those who committed in the most toughest ways
- Is Egypt the only country that suffer from this problem?
No,it is not for sure , sexual harassment is from the old diseases of human society just like theft and murder and it happens everywhere on this planet from East to West ,for God Sake at least our president is not followed by sexual harassments and rape suits like in other neighbor countries
- Is the Islam the only religion in the world whose some of its believers attack in this shameful way?
No , it is not the only religion , in fact it is silly to categorize those guys as Muslims ,because simply they don't act according to Islam anymore , it is very naive thinking , I can't say that Christianity is bad or evil and call it names because some catholic priests turned to be very sick persons who use their religious position to rape boys , for God sake Foley turned to be a victim of some priest !!
Look this is a social disease ,it was there all the time there since the wife of Egypt's minister or vizier Zalikah tried to sexually harassed prophet Joseph "PBUH", but because of the communication revolution and the world that turned into village and the sex revolution that happened in the last century we feel that it is something new !!!
It was all the time in our society , but on a a very narrow scale , the step father who sexually harassed his step children ,it is all communities and societies across this wide civilized world , the rich boy who is sexually harassing his maids, in fact I look to the Egyptian society and arts ,I will find with my all respect that we were in Egypt the first to discuss it in Arts whether in Films and in literature , there are many black and white movies discussing this taboos since Anwar Wagdy and Aziza Amir movies , in literature you got the masterpiece of Taha Hussein "The Nightingale prayer" which also was presented in cinema
In fact because Egypt didn't know this kind of shameful acts on a wide scale like what happened on Tuesday , we are in Blogsphere making this noise ,to return back our dear honorable Egypt as we can
It is not a opportunity for Egypt and Egyptians' haters to join the carven
a perfect blog, & bth i want to mention sth, the foreigners are not (katakeet) with egyptian girls
ReplyDeleteBravo, well said.
ReplyDeleteThis event has torn me in so many directions. As someone who loves Egypt deeply, I am angry and hurt and confused and sorrowful. Also, I'm happy (that's the wrong word, but the right direction) about your efforts to end the silence.
Then, as someone who lives in America and has a blue passport and, yes, all the immunity that provides (I have never been sexually assaulted in Cairo)...I almost want the silence, or I don't want the American mainstream to know about this, I don't want them to take this event and put it on their stupid racist flags and wave it around.
For God's sake sexual assault does happen everywhere (I have been groped/assaulted in the U.S.), and why can't Egypt be a real place--with good and bad--without the racists and fearmongers taking up every negative thing and waving it around like maniacs?
Anyhow, I applaud you and wish I had your moral courage.
@anonymous , I don't classify harassers with nationality , I don't care if this was an Egyptian or this is foreigner ,in both cases they need to be punished
ReplyDelete@Marcia , thanks for you great words,It is great that Egypt that has friends like , and my dear friend unfortunately the price we have to pay to make our government do something instead of denial and accusing us with defaming our country is to expose it in front of the all the world and that means dealing with all these rubbish racist comments from people who hate Egypt and find this as an opportunity
yet the Arabic proverb it says ,the Carven passes and the dogs screams , let them scream but most important the Carven goes safely
Thank Marcia and I am sorry for what happened to you in the United States