A senior Egyptian general admits that "virginity checks" were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities.Just think what would have happened to these women had they been suspected of being Jewish or Israeli.
The allegations arose in an Amnesty International report, published weeks after the March 9 protest. It claimed female demonstrators were beaten, given electric shocks, strip-searched, threatened with prostitution charges and forced to submit to virginity checks.
At that time, Maj. Amr Imam said 17 women had been arrested but denied allegations of torture or "virginity tests."
But now a senior general who asked not to be identified said the virginity tests were conducted and defended the practice.
"The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," the general said. "These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs)."
Actually, we know what would have happened.
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It makes me feel so much better to learn "The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,..." For a minute there I was taking offense, but this makes it all more understandable and acceptable practice. /sarc off
ReplyDeleteAnother statement from the General's interview said: "We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place," ... "None of them were (virgins)."
ReplyDeleteSo, now we understand how Islam views women and rape: If you're a virgin, obviously you weren't raped. If you're not a virgin, you weren't raped, either -- it's not "rape" anymore, it's adultery. You DESERVE the stoning you're going to get under Allah's perfect law.
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