Yeah, that’s it. Any time a man harrasses a woman, it’s HER fault for daring to expose her hair, face, arms, etc…
CAIRO — Egypt has finally decided to fight the rising phenomenon of sexual harassment on its streets, choosing mosques as the launching pad of its war against stalkers.
“Harassment has reached very dangerous levels,” Sheikh Saad al-Takky, a senior Ministry of Religious Endowments official, told IslamOnline.net.
“There must be some serious action to curb it and our ministry has decided to take this action.”
The Ministry, which is responsible for mosques and places of prayer, has distributed a booklet about sexual harassment in what appears to be a new bid to curb sexual harassment which continues to claim new victims on the crowded streets of Egypt.
The 35-page booklet contains important definitions about harassment and an analysis of the reasons why this phenomenon has risen in the largely conservative Egyptian society.
Among many other things, the authors blame unemployment and provoking clothes worn by some women for the increase in the number of harassment cases.
“Clothes are important for man in general, but they are more important for women because they protect them against molestation,” it says.
The booklet urges women to wear the headscarf and be fully covered so that stalkers would not be tempted to approach them.
In 2005, officials at the Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights – a local organization that gives legal aid to women – were showered by complaints from women who experienced harassment on the streets.
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Apparently the average Egyptian male has no more self control than a dog in heat, according to some Egyptian clerics. That’s right, blame the victim, how dare a woman provoke a man by not completely covering her hair. I wonder what that says about the women who get decked out like ninjas and STILL get harrassed…
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