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I’ll second that question: only two-thirds?

Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country, and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey showed Thursday.

The forms of harassment reported by Egyptian men, whose country attracts millions of foreign tourists each year, include touching or ogling women, shouting sexually explicit remarks, and exposing their genitals to women. “Sexual harassment has become an overwhelming and very real problem experienced by all women in Egyptian society, often on a daily basis,” said the report by the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights.

Egyptian women and female visitors frequently complain of persistent sexual harassment on Egyptian streets, despite the socially conservative nature of this traditional Muslim society.

Just disgusting.

And so the trend continues: wherever Islam becomes the religion of the majority, the rights of women are diminished and women themselves come to be seen as little more than mere chattel, existing solely for the gratification of men. In this way, I suppose, an Islamic world might be indistinguishable from a wholly secular world…but I digress.

I wonder what ol’ Shaukat Khawja would have to say about this latest turn of events, given his previous assertion that Islam upholds women’s rights much better than do Western states?

~ by Kenneth on July 22, 2008.