Eid, a festival of sexual harassment?
After a month of abstinence (from sex naturally) during daylight hours in the Holy month of Ramadhan, a mob of sex starved Egyptians decided to celebrate Eid by attacking and sexually harassing women on the streets of Cairo.
The first the incident was made public was during a television show, posted on You Tube by Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas. From what I gathered from reading blogs, women were attacked by mobs, who touched them up, hit them and tore off their clothes in the busy Cairo streets. While others were lucky to take refuge in shops, some were pulled out of taxis, where the orgy continued.
During the month of Ramadhan it is not religiously obligatory to abstain from sex when not fasting ie after breaking the fast which is at sundown. So people do not actually abstain from sex during Ramadhan. Thus please do not make the connection between Ramadhan/eid and the disturbing story of the sexual attack of these women.
I don’t know anything about this particularly report. But I do know that Ramadan does degenerate into something of an intense period of abstinence and excess. Many people, after breaking fast, over indulge themselves with things they abstained from during the day. I must confess that my experiences in this regard are limited to watching grown men and women gorge themselves on all manner of foods, um, rather than one another.
“I must confess that my experiences in this regard are limited to watching grown men and women gorge themselves on all manner of foods, um, rather than one another. ”
My point exactly; people are too busy eating to worry too much about ‘other’ things!