Wednesday
01Nov2006
Protest sexual assaults
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 12:46PM
Activists are organizing a sit in at the Press Syndicate, 12 noon, on 9 November, to protest the sexual assaults against women during Eid. The activists are demanding the resignation of General Habib el-Adly, the Interior Minister whose security forces stood by watching the assaults without intervention.





Reader Comments (70)
We became an unsecure country anymore!!! i am wondering what else is missing for this country to be the worst country EVER!!!!
نريد القصاص
اين الأزهر
الموضوع لازم يفضل كبير والمفروض الناس اللى قايمين على موضوع اقالة الوزير مايكسلوش ويكبروا الموضوع
ارجو الا نكتفى بجمع التوقيعات ولكن علينا جمع اكبر عدد من الشهادات فى محاولة لاجهاض المؤمرة التى تحاك للمدونين كخطوة اولى
ثم علينا تنظيم جهودنا فى حملة ضد التحرش والمتحرشين نناقش اسبابها ومن المسؤل الذى اوصلنا لهذه الحالة
اننا امام مجتمع يحتضر وانقاذه واجب علينا جميعا قبل ان يكون الحل اما الموت او الهروب
لازم يقال
أيوه يقال والله أعلم إنه إنه مسنوووووووووووووووووود
ولازم يقيلوه ويرموه في الزبالة
Hasbya Allah wa ne3ma alwakeel. If this outrageous disaster happened here in the UK, the prime minister and the whole cabinet would have resigned. If they cannot defend woman walking in main streets, why on earth are they rulling the country?
i read about this story in bbc.com today i found it quiet sad and oppersive if this happend in a westeren country you better believe these young men would be in jail.
العادلي هو الحجاج بن يوسف
هو السفياني الذي سيحارب المهدي المنتظر
هو هامانالذي باع دينه بدينا غيره
حقا اعجز ان اجد 11 فرقا بينه وبين المسيخ الدجال
العادلي هو ذلك الشخص الذي لايمكلك من اسمه شيئا ولو انصفو لسموه الظالمي
العادلس هو السبب في تفشي الرعب ف العشوائيات والمظاهرات واقسام الشرطة واخيرا في نص البلد
لا تكفوا بالاقالة ولكن حاكموا المجرم
نعم أقيلوه
ألا يكفيه ما حدث للمصريات
أم ينتظر أن ينتكهكن جميعا حتى يرضيه
this looks very much like when women were raped a few years back at the Puerto Rican Parade in nYc. to my knowledge there was a lot of media response to what happened so there HAD to be a legal one. that by no means suggests that everyone involved got in trouble for it...
a few thoughts: but the more Egyptians get "democratized" and "liberated" the more these things will occur. there is a larger spiritual crisis going on in the world and it manifests itself in many forms: from gang attacks in Egypt to child porn exploding in america...
its being lost in a colonised mentality...where you are always inferior if you are not using the west's model for everything...the muslim world will never beat the west at the wests game...militarily that's been proven true...economically that is true...and now socially
there is a difference between modernizing subtly meaning westerninzing, if they folks in Egypt were not so busy trying to act like the west, perhaps they could modernize in a unique and better way.
el3adly must be removed for a million reasons, this one is but the cherry on the top. elmohem eno we must not forget that the roots of these attacks on women reside elsewhere. the security forces did not defend the women who were being attacked. true. they screwed up bigtime. true. but the attackers and what/who they stand for should also be the issue in the protest. egyptian men need to be enlightened ba2a! kefaya 2araf! why should women endure the crappy treatment and the sexual objectification? why should we be weary of every stupid ass who brushes against us on the street or comes near our car window and wonder whether this time it would suffice to curse him, kick him in the nuts, walla ne3mel fedee7a w nelem 3aleh midan el ta7rir kollo? 3ala amal eno yeb2a 3ebra le man ya3taber??
we demonstrated against so much unfairness fel balad w barraha. i guess it's about time we tackled the unfairness caused by our brave men, el masreyeen, el 2osood, el .... lamo2akhza... walla balash..
i have no comment that would usefull for anyone in that matter than i am really ashamed of being egyption and i want someone to tell me how can i get the israelian nationality
اقتلوا هذا الخادم للكلب مبارك وبالنسبة لمبارك فيكفي ان يعلق رأسة في ميدان التحرير بيكون عبرة لمن يعتبر
من غير كلام كفاية كده اوي عليه و كفاية اللي عمله في المصريين هو و رجالته و الله حرام يقضل قاعد و لغاية امتي كفاية بقة كفااااااااااااية
I am a regular visitor to Egypt since 1997 mainly on holiday and to say I AM SHOCKED is putting it mildly. I am a woman from the UK, Manchester, and this has really left me stunned. I was so in awe of the way Egypt behaved towards its women and I have always felt safe. all the men I have met have been very respectful. NOW I will have to think again - I was just about to book my next holiday BUT I will have to give it some thought.
Di blad weskha fe kol 7aga
أقيلوا العميل الخائن مصيرة مثل صدام و شارون صفيحة الزبالة و آخرتة سودة انشاء الله اين مبارك مما يحدث اهو نائم ام بيستهبل لانة كلبة المخلص الأمين حسبي الله و نعم الوكيل.
Well, sad to say, I am not surprised. We all know how frustrated men are in Egypt, a walk in any public place can reveal how lost the youth are. Walking around with no purpose except to bother young women, veiled and unveiled, because there is no respect for women and no self-respect either. It is definitely a sign that our society is in a huge azma, if you haven't noticed.
I wouldn't even have counted on the police anyway. What police?? They would have said that the women were dressed too sexy and they provoked the men. That is our society. It's a shame. If I was the girl harrassed I would have made the biggest fedi7a, in fact I would have beat them all up because they are just a bunch of imbeciles.
But I'm sure the disbelief and utter shock of being attacked in such a way made these young women panic and try to just hide themselves. Why do women have to go through this shit?? Can't Egyptian men behave?? Yes of course these men are needy and frustrated and maybe poor and uneducated, but it's so bad that they feel it's okay to harm a human being just because she is a woman and "she'll get over it". No, it is a big deal, it must have been very scary and embarrassing for them and it should not go unpunished!!! I really hope the independant media makes a huge fuss about it, please people, let's keep making noise!!! And don't count on government newspapers to tell the truth, never.
Disgusted.
I see this as a symptom of the sexuality and sexual repression endemic in Islamic Society. If men and women were free to express themselves sexually without fear of punishment from the self appointed "moral guardians", they would probably have found themselves in relationships, or at least with acceptable outlets for their needs, both men and women. Sex is not bad, it is how society treats it that is harmful and causes the greatest problems. The disparity in power between men and women is also something that must be addressed. The women felt threatened, yet the supposed forces of law and order did not protect when she clearly needed it. Had she been consenting to the sexual attention then, there would have been no call for the police to intervene. These police have failed in their duty.
What reforms do we need? Liberalisation of attitudes towards sexual beaviour for a start. "Honour" is not something that can be taken away by sexual beaviour. People should be free to engage in consenting behaviour with whatever adult consents to that behaviour without fear of attack by a third party. Then society will be much healthier and we will be happier and safer. The police should learn that even if they look like they will be beaten up by a mob, it is their honour to defend the weak, who need their assistance.
As much as my heart is with the women who found themselves in such a situation, as much as I can empathise with how terrible it must have been for them, I think we need to put them aside to understand what happened. A coward finds courage in the group - and with endemic moral weakness it becomes easy to convince someone to give up moral conventions and do what they would have otherwise told you is wrong. I think we need a sexual revolution. We need to modify our beliefs to match reality. Marriage is not possible? Well, so be it, modify marriage, dont make it so demanding financially. WE HAVE TO CHANGE : BOTH MEN AND WOMEN> We all want the same things, we want fulfillment, sexual and spiritual, we want each other, and you can hold back the tide of life only for so long. It will eventually break and engulf you and everything with it. These women and these men are both victims: victims to a perpetual decay that has been gnawing at our society for at least 30 years. Its time for a radical change. Its time for revolt. Its time to turn the tables, burn the curtains, destroy the stage. Its time to stand up for ourselves - for history will not FORGIVE us.
I live in the UK and it saddens me to read this story. Isn't this against Islam? Isn't Egypt meant to be an Islamic state? What's the government doing about this? They should take firm action and lock up the guys doing this. Wastagfirulla
i swear.. no solution but leaving this country.. mafeesh fayda
اتمنى لو ان يتم اقالته و لكنى اعلم السيناريو سيتم تغيير وزارى محدود فيه حبيب العادلى و سيتم منحه وسام الطبقة الاولى كالعادة
لمجهوداته العظيمة و سلملى على الترماى
i guess this is the most right time to say
( get the fuck off our back )
to mr habeeb el 4adly ..... we shall remember u .. u know with what ???
with shame and disgust ..
viva EGYPT
الوزارة كلها لازم تتحل يا عرباوي
مش العدلي بس
لكن مبدئيا ده دورنا كمدونين اننا نفضل نفكر الناس
احنا اساسا شعب قصير الانفاس و ننسعى بمنتهى السهولة و السرعة
نقعد نصرخ و نلطم و نشجب و في الاخر نخرس
لأ المرة دي لأ
الناس كلها لازم تعرف اللي حصل و تتأكد انه مش اشاعات زي الحكومة ما بتروج
ولازم يفضلوا فاكرين
وفي الاخر باضم صوتي لصوتك
اقيلوا حبيب العادلي