Posted on 07/01/2013 7:34:43 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Egyptian media reported Sunday that a Dutch journalist was raped by several men in Cairo's Tahrir Square a few days ago.
Dina Zakaria, a journalist reporting for the "Egypt 25" news channel affiliated with the January 25 revolution, shared the incident on her Facebook page Sunday: "A Dutch journalist in Tahrir was raped by men who dub themselves revolutionists. Her condition is severe and she is hospitalized."
Meanwhile, a state hospital issued a statement that the journalist was admitted after being raped by five men several days ago. She underwent surgery and has been released. It was also reported that Egypt's Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah ordered his staff to go to the hospital to hear the woman's story and reveal the circumstances behind the violent attack.
Egyptian women face sexual harassment and assaults on a daily basis. During and after the revolution, there have been a number of case of foreign reporters who were sexually assaulted, such as Sonia Dridi and Lara Logan.
Sexual harassment is not new within the conservative Egyptian society, yet the extent of this phenomenon has grown and become more violent and visible. The Egyptian law defines assault as a crime, but not sexual assault.
The United Nations claimed last month that it holds some 25 sexual assault reports that occurred in Tahrir Square, the center of the protest, in one week in the beginning of the year. The organization dedicated to preventing sexual assaults, whose activists patrolled Tahrir Square, reported 19 assaults on January 25 alone – the second anniversary of the uprising against Hosni Mubarak. Among the reports was also a case of a girl who was raped by a sharp instrument.
According to a report by the UN, the Cairo Demographic Center and Egypt's Institute of National Planning, more than 99% of the hundreds of Egyptian women who participated in the study reported some kind of sexual harassment or assault, from verbal abuse to rape. The women came from seven of Egypt's 27 provinces.
Put yourself in harms way and sometimes you pay the price.
I read that this woman is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. With 46 sexual assaults reported just yesterday alone during these protests, you’d think females would get a clue.
When muslims have control rape is legal, for the rapist; but not for the rape victim. They have a strange definition of “civilization”.
Barbaric...
Under Islamic law, she must be rapidly tried, convicted and stoned to death.
She’ll be a Conservative by dawn...
(I know. Kinda mean, but some lessons are hard won!)
That was my thought as well.
I do feel bad for her though...
I’m not an unfeeling person - if this is what it takes to convert her to SANITY and leave her stupidity behind, so be it.
This is really great news, the leftist media ignores what the problem is at their own peril.
So it’s great when Karma comes home to those who are evil, the press.
“Sexual harassment is not new within the conservative Egyptian society, yet the extent of this phenomenon has grown and become more violent and visible.”
Somebody please explain for me, is Egypt conservative? What am I missing here?
What a load of crap. Conservatives want smaller Government and have the utmost respect for others' property and personal safety.
Those damn OWStreeters.
May I suggest you read my tagline.
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