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Egyptian Women Begin to Fight Back Against Rampant Sexual Assault — And Who Do They Think Is Behind It?

Dec. 5, 2012 6:30pm Erica Ritz

Women Starting to Fight Back Against Sexual Assault in Tahrir | Mohammed Morsi

In this Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 file photo, an Egyptian youth, trailed by his friends, grabs the backside of a woman crossing the street in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo: AP)

The grassroots Egyptian media organization Mosireen has put together a video on how Egyptian women are are starting to fight back against sexual assault– and it contains some noteworthy information on who they think the perpetrators are.

Most Americans were introduced to the horrors of how women can be treated in Egypt– particularly the iconic Tahrir Square– after CBS reporter Lara Logan was viciously attacked while reporting on the so-called “Arab Spring.” A number of foreign reporters have been assaulted since, and not surprisingly, Egyptian women find themselves targeted just as often.

“Why shouldn’t women go out to Tahrir?” an Egyptian girl says as the video opens. “It’s their right! This is their country! The sexual assaults are part of the reason they’re going out to the square in the first place.”

The clip then goes over the background of how women are treated– including a horrifying aerial image of a jostling mob seemingly attempting to surround a girl– before a field doctor from a Tahrir clinic is interviewed.

He says:

“Most of the time they form a long chain moving together, their hands on each other’s backs like a train…They push into the crowds of protesters and they pick particular people – foreigners or Egyptians – they start surrounding them, and then the assault starts…”

The video cuts back to the animated Egyptian girl from the beginning of the video:

“They attacked the girls. They ripped off their clothes and sexually assaulted them. I’m so disgusted, I feel a huge sense of guilt because we weren’t able to get to anyone. I’m trying to help in any way I can.”

A jostling crowd seemingly tries, in a coordinated manner, to surround someone. (Photo via Mosireen)

A second girl then explains how, though sexual assault has always been a problem, it has markedly increased with the recent wave of unrest against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The attacks “took place in a very organized way,” she states evenly, “which makes us suspect that someone is behind these assaults.”

In her opinion, which is seconded by the Egyptian field doctor, it is likely that someone is orchestrating the attacks to make the protesters look like “human trash who assault women.” The obvious implication would be that President Morsi’s regime is behind it, though both stop short of explicitly calling out the man who recently gave himself absolute power.

But over the weekend, the Daily Mail reported on similar allegations that Morsi is “paying gangs to go out and rape women and beat men protesting in Egypt.” At the very least, the current regime is wildly failing at keeping the streets safe.

A young man then appears to explain how he and others have begun rescue groups for girls in need. Their efforts are still in the extremely fundamental stages, but they have to start somewhere:

“The most important step in preventing an attempted assault is to first reach the girl…You have to do it calmly and without making any violent moves until you’ve reached her. Try to stay calm, try not to shout, try as much as possible to calm her down and secure her because she’ll be panicking and afraid of everyone around her.”

Watch the entire video, below (click on the “CC” on the bottom right toolbar to see the subtitles):

(H/T: Gateway Pundit)

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cnchess
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:03pm
Evil succeeds when good people are afraid. Since George W left office, we have been the culture of appeasement where Hilary tries to buy off tyrants by making them rich tyrants.
The Middle East is rushing back the corrupt 5th century and the U.S. government is showing them the way. This Administration does not care about Arab women getting raped, or murdered. Hell, Laura Logan was gang raped by Islamic perverts and the PC crowd converted it to a sexual assault with snide comments about it being faked to make her more famous.
Who is responsible? Liberals are responsible.

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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:29pm
  This is all bull.
  
  I heard our Sewer Rat-in-Chief say just the other day that everythinbg’s good in the Middle East and those Al Qaeda boys are decimated. If Barry Soetoro says it, it must be true since Al Sharpton will back him up.
  
  Forget Hillbilly Hillary and John “I served in Viet Nam” Kerry, I say make Al Sharpton Secretary of State. That should buy us some time around the world as foreign dignitaries, friend and foe alike, try to figure out what the hell it is he’s saying!
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:47pm
  2 things send these muslim bast_rds running 1. Soap and water 2. A super soaker filled with pigs blood. Works better than pepper spray on these pos.
  
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- ltb
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 12:02pm
  I guess since Muslim women get stoned for being raped, that makes them easy targets. Probably not many women are going to report abuse when they know they’re the ones who will be punished.
  
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- ocrick
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 12:20pm
  But we were told by W that invading Iraq would spread freedom to the Mid East!!??
  
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- ltb
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 5:55pm
  OCRick, Really? You’re going to bring up Bush after Obama went around taking credit for the Arab Spring and telling everybody what a good thing it was. I’m embarrassed for you. Seriously, the stupidity and ignorance of you liberals knows no bounds nor shame.
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:43am
  @ocRick. Bush definitely was on girls side. He stood up like a man calling evil evil. You on the other hand, well you twist truth. A child knows rape is evil.
  
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Realman30
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:40pm
Did I miss the pointed commentary from NOW on these assaults?

Then again, the topic isn’t abortion. NOW is content as long as a female can legally abort a baby.

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TheHalfrican
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:39pm
Democrats don’t pull this kind of crap in Oklahoma, maybe these Egyptian women should try open or concealed carry because it sure works here.

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- vehoae
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:36pm
  Perhaps you’re right, Thehalfrican. I’m proud Oklahomans are still permitted to own & carry weapons. Since I live in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area where the current 2012 total of homicides (as of yesterday) was 100, according to KTOK 1000 AM. Oklahoma City is one of 10 U.S. cities ranked in the Top Ten list of major metropolitan areas having the highest number of homicides thus far in 2012.
  
  As for the entire state of Oklahoma, if 2012′s year-end crime statistics run as much or more than those of 2011 (and they are on track to do just that), there will have been at least 202 forcible rapes, 69 acts of forcible sodomy, 33 sexual assaults with an object, 610 incidents of forcible fondling, 67 cases of statutory rape, 8 cases of incest, and more (much more) that you can check out on OKSBI’s website.
  
  Sexual assault is despicable, whether committed against one man/woman/child, or against twenty. I feel awful for women in countries where civil and Sharia laws actually cast a blanket of protection over males who sexually misuse women/children – whether by rape or other sexually-related atrocities.
  
  I will pray and I will carry!
  
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TRILO
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:39pm
The violent overthrow of a government by fundamentalists usually does not work out well. Just as true democracy leads to tyranny.

Soon the women who once lived under a somewhat moderate middle eastern country will find themselves wrapped in a burka.

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- loriann12
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 7:54am
  It’s like is written in the Road to Serfdom…..socialism always leads to fascism when they realize in order to get what they want, they have to FORCE the people to change.
  
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turkey13
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:33pm
By Sharia law all these young girls can be raped . In the picture all are not in Burkas and that little see through face covering won’t hack it. This causes men to lust after them and the only way they can prove rape is to have 4 male escorts that will testify in court. What Morsi is trying to do is get the women to follow the law with a full Burka with only eyes showing and only speak when spoken to by a male. I can’t wait for when it becomes law here and the women libbers start squaking about the tents they have to wear and have to shut up untill spoken to by a male.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:43pm
  Not our problem.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:09pm
  TURKEY: Ladies, buy guns and learn to shoot them !
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:32pm
Ah, there you go. Must be their sense of Social Justice, right Liberals? Your king, lord Messiah Obama must be proud.

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Stelex
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:30pm
I’m sure “NOW” is all over this, Progressives……all over this. Statements to come anytime now. Janine Garofallo ……..all over this…..Hollywierd all over this. Code Pink…..right there. Gloria (Burn your bra’s) is right on top of this. Women’s liberation groups are gathering as we speak, wait for it….wait for it……wait for it…….Ok, maybe not.

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gyro
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:23pm
degrading women is a world wide problem

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- Twobyfour
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 9:20pm
  But replacing it with degrading men is not a bright idea either. That is the gist of the feminism 2.0 after the mid sixties and it is still in progress.
  
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RANGER1965
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:18pm
Egypt is famous for a razor sharp,curved, singled-edged knife with a little notch in it. I can’t recall it’s name but it was designed to plunge upward into the groin or belly of an opponent.

Once firmly seated it’s flat curved design is designed to be easily withdrawn…of course there is that itty bitty notch that tends to grab pretty important stuff as it’s being pull out.

It makes a helluv’ a mess. I think arming all Egyptian women with this instrument would be honoring Egyptian culture, and making these pathetic pansy rapists think twice. These cute little choo-choo trains won’t be going anywhere after the first few cars are turned into screaming bloody nightmares clutching a handful of their own slippery intestines.

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Thornyrose13
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:13pm
If these women don’t win their battle for fair treatment soon, they are doomed. Those in charge who wish to impose their version of Islamic law on Egypt will not settle for rape in a public square. They will arrest any woman who speaks out, have women beaten for appearing without male escorts, and otherwise “Taliban” Egypt as that group has done to Afghanistan. The flame of freedom is flickering dangerously, and another piece of the world is about to go dark.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:47pm
  The Muslim Brotherhood members are a mixture of three different sects of Islam, the most radical of them the Sufirists make the Taliban and Al Queda look saintly.
  
  These attacks by the extremists and the Brotherhood on the women is designed to be a reign of subjugation by intimidation, force and of terror. Soon enough the raping of the women will not be enough for the radicals and extremists, they will begin the systematic murder of all women and girls who refuse to comply fully and absolutely with Sharia.
  
  Those who elected Obama need to take notice, elections do have consequences, and this will be the fate for America under Obama.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:12pm
Elections have consequences, and Egyptians were fooled into supporting the muslim brotherhood takeover of their country, so, they have themselves to blame for being uninformed and easily duped.

But, also, Egyptians should look to obama for illegally using billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help topple Mubarak and position Morsi and the muslim brotherhood in such a way as to purposely deceive them people into believing that this was the “democracy” that they had longed for.

Yes – of course Morsi and the muslim brotherhood are behind these attacks, but, they have the full support and (illegal) financial backing of obama.

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environmentalandawake
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:09pm
So where are Obummer and the UN thugs on this? They don’t seem to mind taking rights away, all the while allowing rights violations to go unchecked. Isn’t it interesting how all the things the UN at UNEP.org claim are harming the environment are the same things they themselves propagate? Here’s an example; they talk about war displacing resources, so to counter they have the US run guns into the affected areas, only for the bad guys with guns already to procure the arms. Same can be said about the food to the starving folk. The UN has no intention of curing the Worlds Woes, only to control the World as a whole!!!!

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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:09pm
Ouch! Sounds effective. Nothing “Mellow” about this Lady!

Don’t forget to pack a handgun as well…..just in case of an equipment failure.

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scott4freedom
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:58pm
It only needs another spark to ignite Egypt! Hopefully the people of Egypt will over throw this ******* and continue to strive for democracy! Hopes and prayers to all involved in the revolution to take back thier country.Ladies bust um in the balls!!!!

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RLTW
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:56pm
I’ve spent more time in the ME since Oct 2001 then I like to even think, and even I could see if the ME ever had a future it exists in there woman.

Sexual repression and homosexuality is rampant in Islamic culture and the cause of many ills.

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:09pm
  ME….Maine? I think women have a great future in Maine, they make the best chowder.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:28pm
  Oh Darmok, arm should be wide open brother, but if you don’t get ME in relation to this article from the Middle East I’m just not sure what to do.
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:30pm
  Darmok, Me thinks you’re a Maineack……..lol…
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:58pm
  I baffles me why the left isn’t screaming about the Real war on women, in the Middle East.
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:53pm
These men are the devils spawn. Pure and simple!

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barber2
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:52pm
A new Troll name has appeared. Just another new name for an old, annoying smart aleck. Think he tried being a phony ad man for a time. Loves to mock and annoy. Must have just been released from a junior high detention. Let’s just ignore .

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- barber2
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:04pm
  Thankfully, the Troll has disappeared…for right now .
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:47pm
  Thanks, Blaze, for evaporating the newest version of the radical Left mosquito ( Annoy/ deserve your blood/ are numerous ) drone on conservative freedom of expression. These radical Lefties are such MIC check bullies.
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 10:00pm
  o dear ;D
  
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:51pm
It is suspicious that all the attacks take place right in the middle of the (Tahrir) square. I believe these people. And our President could say something, make a difference, but he won’t. What a disgusting man we have leading our country today. And where are NOW and PINK when we see women being subjected to this in Egypt (and America)? They sit in silence like our president.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:58pm
  Yes. The hypocrisy of our Democrats who ran the campaign on the false War on Women allegations about the Republicans. IF they really cared about a War on Women they would be screaming about these assaults. The radicals find it much easier to trash their fellow Americans than these Muslim barbarians ! Our Chicago radicals are bent on destroying American capitalism . Been their goal since the 60s. Ask Bill Ayers.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:13pm
  You can always make a huge list about what ANYBODY isn’t confronting at the moment. Why doesn’t Glenn and the Blaze try to stop legal slavery in Nigeria? Why don’t republicans care about child sex traffickers in Cambodia? Why don’t Blaze posters ever talk about ethnic cleansing in Darfur? I guess it’s because they’re all evil?
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 7:26pm
  I bet Barbara Boxer and Nancy Polisie are headed over there right now. When they have the cameras follow them around there will be no problems.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:01pm
  WHat ? You do not think that the world’s woes can be solved by an organization that allows Syria to sit on the Human Rights Committee ? !
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 8:05pm
  SHEEP: No. The issue is HYPOCRISY which is one of the seven pillars of the radical Left Democrat Party !
  
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- Chromo200
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 9:13pm
  EXREPUBLISHEEP Because no one listens .. We have complained about all your list .. The gays told us that we are homophobic, The UN and African requested money from us for Darfur without any accountability and when we write our senators and the WH we get form letters telling us they are looking into it. The Dems don’t care about anything outsid eteh US .. they just want power and destruction of this country.
  
  Not a penny to the RNC and GOP.
  
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paulwbrown
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:47pm
Who is behind the rapes? Government agents, the Imams, believers in Shari are all good candidates.

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ElChupaCabraDeUSA
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:46pm
These are the people we should be standing with…unfortunately the Obama regime is on the wrong side as usual and unfortunately these people are in grave danger for stepping forward…more blood on the hands of Hopey McChangey

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chips1
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:43pm
Sounds alot like the Clinton White House policy.

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Keatonc33
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:36pm
You go girls!

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Calm Voice of Reason
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:36pm
Stopped reading at “Daily Mail”.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:35pm
Sounds like they need to get with the Israelis for some Krav Maga lessons.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:47pm
  That is a good one RJ,they could also kick em in the nuts or a liver kick,you take a liver kick and you get shut off like a light switch.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:51pm
  Oy Gavalt…
  
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DisgustedinUSA
Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:34pm
“Egyptian Women Begin to Fight Back Against Rampant Sexual Assault — And Who Do They Think Is Behind It?”

WHEW!!! For a minute there, I thought the writer was going to say the Republicans. Since we’re being blamed for everything else negative going on in the world.

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:43pm
  Yea I thought Bush for sure.
  
  On a serious note. I’d have no problem deep sixing any of these cowards that do this to women.
  Cutt it off and stick it up thier back side.
  
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- Small World
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:49pm
  Good one !
  
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