Posted on 07/18/2012 12:22:07 PM PDT by C19fan
Nisreen was young, brave and full of hope for the new Egypt she was in the process of creating.
It was 6 February 2011 and she, like hundreds of other women, was sleeping in Tahrir Square to physically protect it from the Mubarak-government forces trying to take it back.
Nisreen told me that day she believed that after the uprising things had changed for women in Egypt. She felt safe in the square she told me because "There is no harassment".
So she was ready to stay "one day, one week, one month, one year" to topple the regime. She didn't have to wait that long for President Hosni Mubarak to go.
His regime was already crumbling. But her hopes, shared by many others, that things had changed for women would be brutally disappointed.
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Wow—what a shock. [/s] The only group the Egyptian Spring is going to deliver for is the Mullahs.
Been a few years - but a while back some blogger (?) had gotten some pictures of Cairo University taken about 10 years apart.
You could see the slow transition to the veil.
Another series taken in Kabul, Afghanistan in the 1970s shows a very modern city.
What I find particularly sad is that aspects of this kind of thing are coming to the US. This spring there was a big flap in Virginia because in pursuit of the laudable goal of reducing the number of legal abortions, the state was trying to impose a VAGINALLY INVASIVE form of ultrasound to show women what their fetuses looked like. Before this I thought that ultrasounds were performed on the exterior of the belly. Who knew? Sounds a lot like the Egyptian military/security forces administering Virginity Tests. At any rate the outrage of Virginia women of both parties got that aspect of the provision killed.
Sharia’s bad for women? Who knew?
Typical Islamic taqiyya bait-and-switch. Just wait until the stadium executions start.
To cheering crowds.
Was she a blond??
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