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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dalia*: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Exiled: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by harankash: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by With a name like Smuckers: [qb] LOL Imagine if we did that experiment in Cairo! :D :p [/qb][/QUOTE] :D Hijab and Niqab does NOT stop sexual harassment, or unwanted attention. It intensifies it! :rolleyes: [/qb][/QUOTE]Do you wear hijab/niqab? If not then your claim is meritless and if you do please expound on how it actually 'intensifies' harassment? We are talking about Egypt, right? [/qb][/QUOTE]I don't think hijab or niqab intensifies harassment on a personal basis. But I think, and that has also been observed by many other women who have been to several Muslim countries, that the covering of women often goes along with a particular social perception ... namely, that men are not able to restrain themselves and that it is women's responsibility to keep up morals by making themselves as invisible and unattractive as possible. What happens then is for example what we can observe in Egypt: Men feel they have the right to harass women, much more so the less those women are covered. As a result, many women cover up more in order to avoid harassment, but it's like a vicious circle, it only gets worse. And then you have very popular religious preachers like Amr Khaled telling women they collect sins every time they go uncovered and a man looks at them. Now isn't that absolving the men of all responsibility and assigning it to the women? Don't you think those are exactly the wrong words in a country where almost every single woman experiences harassment, and where things like the eid attacks happen? What kind of message is this giving out? Women are made to feel guilty if they get harassed, they are told it is their fault if a man misbehaves. But does that change anything? Is there no harassment in countries where the majority of women wear hijab or niqab? It seems that often it's the opposite, there's a lot of harassment in Egypt, I've often heard that harassment in Saudi is quite awful as well. So doesn't that tell us the opposite of what many want to make us believe ... that covering women up and making them as invisible as possible in the public sphere can never be a solution to complex social problems or unhealthy male -- female relationships. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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