347: VEILS VROOM VICE WITH VIM NOT VIRTUE OR VICE VERSA – the Hijab and the Niqab are Camouflage – Phantom Costumes

20 August, 2008

VEILS VROOM VICE WITH VIM NOT VIRTUE OR VICE VERSA – the Hijab and the Niqab are Camouflage – Phantom Costumes

In Egypt, Some Women Say That Veils Increase Harassment

The Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday 17^th August 2008

CAIRO: in a Muslim country where the numbers of women and girls wearing the veil are rising, and so, by most accounts, are incidents of harassment – groping and catcalls – in the streets; the message in ads circulating anonymously in E-mails here in Egypt is clear.

One message warns: A veil to protect or eyes will molest!

The words appear over two illustrations; one comparing a veiled woman; her hair and neck covered in the manner known to Muslims as the hijab and niqab, to a wrapped lollipop, untouched and pure – JEEZ! The other picture shows an unveiled woman; hair flying wildly and hip jutting, next to a candy with its wrapper stripped off – covered with flies.

You cannot stop them, but you can protect yourself – warns another ad likening men to flies and women to sweets. Bloggers in Egypt have taken to calling such messages the veil-your-lollipop campaign.

No groups have asserted responsibility for the online ads, which so far have drawn little attention outside Egyptian blogs. But the campaign comes at a time of converging debates on two keenly felt issues in Egypt: the growing social pressure on Moslem women to veil themselves; and the rising incidence of sexual harassment by men because of the veil.

Daniel: A veil to protect or eyes will molest! HORSE-SHIT! Veils cannot protect; they can only cover or hide. And eyes cannot molest; they can only see. What they thought they meant to say but could not find or did not know the right words to say it was: Veils to protect or eyes will detect and hands will molest, but I say: Veils to hide from eyes that detect and hands that arrest. If I need to explain that to you then… Candy is also a street-word, street-slang, for heroin, cocaine, and other hard drugs or narcotics. Also, if men are flies then women are shits because flies usually hover over and squat on shit or carcasses or rubbish. Only houseflies hover over and squat on food and that is only because their favourite dishes or meals are not available in homes! BY GOD!

Surprisingly, some Egyptian women say that their veils do not protect them against harassment, as the lollipop ads argue or claim, but fuel it and make it worse. A survey released this summer supports the view.

In accord with her interpretation of Islamic law, which says women should dress modestly, a 20-year-old girl side-walk vendor in Cairo's Mohandisseen district wore a flowing black robe and a black veil – the hijab and the niqab. Together, they covered all but her hands and her pale face with its drawn-on, expressive eyebrows. Despite her modest attire, she said that she endured suggestive comments and remarks from male customers and fellow male-vendors.  She said that those guys were animals; if they saw a female dog, they would harass it. Daniel: Someone ought to inform her that animals or beasts do not act or behave in that way – only Man-the-Ape does!

She also said that a woman or girl who wore the hijab and the niqab could be more provocative; and that the more covered-up a girl or woman was, the more interesting she was to them. Daniel: Like, what’s she hiding? Is she a woman or a man? Who is she, where’s she going, and what’s she going to do? Is she someone we know – the wife, or mother, or sister, Etc, of someone we know – who is out on a spree?

A 60-year-old shopper in the same street said she had long ago stopped wearing the traditional Islamic coverings, in part for that reason; and a 41-year-old Egyptian social commentator who now lives in the United States said that, as a Moslem woman who had worn the hijab for nine years and had been harassed countless times in Egypt, she had concluded that the increase in veiling had somehow contributed to the increase in harassment. She had written, in an interview on one of the most popular websites, that the more women wore the veil, the more men behaved as indecent and uncivilized members of society; and the more women were harassed, the more they wore the veil thinking it would protect them. Daniel: What a cursed endless cycle of cause creating effect creating cause creating effect……Etc, and so forth and so on.

Female travellers-abroad consider Egypt one of the worst countries in the world for harassment on the streets – second only to Afghanistan, where the Taliban had forced all women behind the veil and into seclusion in their homes.

The United States and Britain both warn female visitors in travel advisories that they may face unwanted and unwarranted attention, or sexual attacks and/or harassment in Egypt. When Egyptian lawmakers objected to Britain's advisory this summer, calling it a slur, Britain responded by saying that more female British tourists had been harassed and assaulted, even raped, while in Egypt than in any other country.

A recent survey by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights makes harassment on the streets appear not as a risk, but as a virtual certainty. According to the center, 98% of foreign women and 83% of Egyptian women surveyed said they had been sexually harassed in the country. About half of the women, Egyptian and non-Egyptian, said they were harassed every day as they went about the streets. Foreign women identified Egyptian policemen and other security officials as the most frequent perpetrators.

Two-thirds of Egyptian men surveyed admitted to harassing women, in actions ranging from staring openly at their bodies, shouting explicit remarks, touching the women, or exposing themselves. In fact, the results of the survey proved contrary to the stereotype.

While both men and women surveyed said that short skirts and tight clothes triggered harassment, the survey found that women in the hijab were the most frequent targets of unwanted comments and touching on the street. 72% of those who described incidents of harassment said they were veiled at the time. Daniel: These assailants and molesters know perfectly well that they are immune to indictment or prosecution – let alone conviction and imprisonment – since there are no laws against confronting, molesting, abusing, or raping women and girls; otherwise they would think twice before doing it.

Egypt's most notorious case of harassment occurred last year when two fully-veiled Gulf Arab women were surrounded by dozens of men in a street and molested. By-standers filmed the episode and posted it on a Website. It became an embarrassment to Egypt's government and a spark for the first public debate on sexual harassment in Egypt. A female Egyptian law-maker is at present pushing for a legislation that would impose jail-sentences for some forms of sexual harassment and discrimination. She quoted anecdotes told by the women who had been surveyed, who chose to give up jobs and education because of harassment. She presented the Egyptian news media with the case of a 14-year-old girl who had stopped going to school because of the harassment she suffered on a public bus during the daily trips to school and back. The girl's father came to the women's rights center, seeking help in getting his daughter back to school.

An estimated 80% of Egyptian women now wear the hijab and pressure on the rest to cover up grows every year, as fundamentalism gains influence in Moslem societies worldwide.

A few of the reasons, other than religion, that prompt women to wear the veil: rebellion against a less openly devout older generation; a desire to demonstrate Islamic solidarity; and a desire to show oneself a good girl who would make a good wife.

Daniel:

The picture at the top of the article showed 5 (supposedly) women or girls fully covered from head to foot in hijabs and niqabs. All it needed was the following caption above or below it: Guess who!? Guess What!? Translation: Guess who and what we really are; 5 women, or 5 women and girls, or 3 men and 2 women, or 3 boys and two girls, or 2 men and 2 women with 1 accomplice, or 2 boys and 2 girls with 1 accomplice, or 1 man – a pimp – and his four prostitutes, or 1 Matron and her whores, or......you take it from here. They could even be 5 gays on patrol, on a spree, or on an assignment – for crying out loud!

The hijab and the niqab are camouflage; they’re like walls. Walls do not only keep out, they keep in, too. They keep those outside out, and keep those inside in. The hijab and the niqab only provide women and girls with perfect camouflage – Phantom Costumes – and some men and boys, too. A boy was discovered in a girls-only-school’s dormitory in an Arab country. And that wasn’t an isolated event or incident. The way women and girls are treated and mishandled, and forced to cover themselves up from the hair on their heads to the toes of their feet, I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it – in fact, I am quite positive they used it – to their advantage. Read my posting: 306

Veils to hide from eyes that detect and hands that arrest

Slink about and dart or sneak into alleys and/or houses and pass through doors like phantoms – I see you, you no see me. You no see me, you no know me. You no know me, you no catch me. You no catch me, you no tell on me.

A woman or a girl is a Lollipop – NATURE’S OWN LOLLIPOP – and the wrapping is the clothes she wears to cover or hide her delicate and sensitive parts: her equipment, tools, and accessories; just as a man wears clothes to hide his. A woman, or a girl, wearing the hijab and the niqab is a wrapped LOLLIPOP wrapped in black aluminum foil – or a lollipop wrapped in black aluminium foil – for crying out loud again!

If the story of Adam and Eve were true, then the following is the only sensible and logical version that any educated and enlightened Man-the-Ape could possibly accept and acknowledge: Satan transformed himself into a man, and the snake was Satan’s penis – no woman or girl, let alone Eve – a naïve obtuse moron, since she hadn’t yet eaten the fruit of knowledge – could resist a goodly-sized penis standing at attention in its full height, or length; and after Eve had tasted it, she saw that Adam also had a penis, so she………you take it from here again. And BY GOD AGAIN, TOO!

Not God or Satan – or even God and Satan combined – can stop a woman or a girl, if she is bent on doing something. In fact, it is much easier and safer for women and girls to do whatever they want and to commit whatever sin or so-called social and moral misdemeanors when they are hidden from view; that is, when they know they cannot be known or recognized – in other words: CAMOUFLAGED – so enough of this Horse-shit without The Horse! Read my postings: 120 / add 121 / 327

NOTES:

Foil (n): metal in very thin flexible sheets

Foil (v): to obscure the trail in order to hinder pursuers or throw them off the tracks / thwart / impede / prevent / obstruct / out-wit / out-smart / out-fox / out-maneuver

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