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Subject: makes no difference
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urvoice1 5.09.12 - 06:51pm
Campaigners in Egypt say the problem of sexual harassment is reaching epidemic proportions, with a rise in such incidents over the past three months. For many Egyptian women, sexual harassment - which sometimes turns into violent mob-style attacks - is a daily fact of life, reports the BBC's Bethany Bell in Cairo. Marwa, not her real name, says she worries about being groped or verbally harassed whenever she goes downtown. She says it makes her afraid. * +
urvoice1 5.09.12 - 06:51pm
This is something that scares me, as a girl. When I want to go out, walking the street and someone harasses or annoys me, it makes me afraid. This stops me from going out. I try to be excessively cautious in the way I dress so I avoid wearing things that attract people. * +
urvoice1 5.09.12 - 06:52pm
Statistics say that most of the women or girls who have been sexually harassed have been veiled or completely covered up with the niqab. * +
urvoice1 5.09.12 - 06:52pm
Said Sadek, a sociologist from the American University in Cairo, says that the problem is deeply rooted in Egyptian society: a mixture of what he calls increasing Islamic conservatism, on the rise since the late 1960s, and old patriarchal attitudes. * +
urvoice1 5.09.12 - 06:54pm
yet on here, the likes of aijaz claims muslim women who wear the niqab are safer ? I guess not all muslims hold that view * +
bozzalad 5.09.12 - 07:03pm
Sounds like handsworth * +
irnbrux 5.09.12 - 07:12pm
poor girls * +
ladibud 5.09.12 - 07:15pm
it comes down to a total disrespect of and for women. * +
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