Sexual Harassment of Women In Egypt Skyrockets Under Islamist Rule

2 Timothy 3:1-8 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality has released a report that says that since the Muslim Brotherhood has overtaken Egypt harassment of women has skyrocketed.

The UNEGE report says that 99.3% of Egyptian women have experienced some form of sexual harassment or violence.

“Today, neither a foreigner nor an Egyptian can enjoy a sense of safety… because of the noticeable rise in the rate of crime and harassment against women,” Cairo journalist Manal Abdul Aziz Ali told Al Arabiya.

The UN is reporting that about 1 in 10 attacks on women are reported to authorities because the women fear reprisals. Most women simply flee the situation where men are harassing them.

“These attacks aim to exclude women from public life and punish them for participating in political activism and demonstrations,” Egypt’s Operation Anti Sexual Harassment told the AFP news agency.

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