A female leader in the Egyptian Freedom and Justice Party mocked the accusations addressed to her party and to the Muslim group of instigating the harassment of women during the demonstrations opposing President Muhammad Morsi. And while Deputy Aza al-Garf in the disbanded People's Assembly considered that whoever issued such accusation was “mentally-disturbed," the sides calling for the demonstrations requested the protection of the female participants in them, as it is done by the members of the religious movements during their own million-man protests. We will disregard Al-Garf's implicit sparing of the authority's apparatuses from their responsibility in ensuring the citizens' security, especially in times and locations witnessing massive gatherings where friction between people is heightened. This is due to the fact that the former deputy's main concern is to defend her party and group. However, the so-called Abu Islam had stated on his television show that women were responsible for this harassment, as they took to the squares unveiled and naked, and more importantly “90% of them are Christians and widows" who could not find anyone to keep them in check. What is worse, according to the scholar, is that those who were harassed did not represent an archetype of femininity, as though he was expressing sorrow over the fact that the efforts of the harassers were wasted on women who did not deserve this blessing. In another video being circulated on social communication websites, Sheikh Wagdi Ghoneim also expressed sorrow over the lack of femininity among women demanding gender equality, mocking at the same time the gentleness of men advocating such equality. The placement of such positions and dozens like them in the context of a sociopolitical discourse reveals the following: that the Islamists are not practicing harassment on the squares during the demonstrations (as per Al-Garf's statements) although the victims of this harassment are unveiled and naked Christians who are summoning such harassment (as per Abu Islam's statements). Moreover, they are only getting what they want, especially since they are breaking the frameworks of femininity and masculinity that should not be approached (Ghoneim). The problem according to this opinion does not reside in the violation of people's bodies and the law, but in the presence of women during the demonstrations, i.e. their practicing of their right as citizens to express their political opinions likely everybody else. And except for the Freedom and Justice Party deputy's use of some general expressions such as “Islam has honored women and given them their rights," Abu Islam and Ghoneim did not find anything worth having them quote verses or parts of the Hadith, or even worth consolidating their opinions by going back to what they describe as being their jurisprudent and moral reference. Consequently, they settled for insults and attacks against the harassed and those supporting them, some of which were drawn from the dictionaries of the thugs and riff-raff, and based their positions on the lowest traditions of macho and hostile rhetoric. At this level, one should pay attention to a very important point, i.e. that the female activists who were subjected to humiliating aggressions during the commemoration of the second anniversary of the January 25 revolution among other gatherings, firstly accused groups directed and protected by the security bodies which abstained from performing their mission during the demonstrations, before talking about the role played by members of the religious movements in instigating these practices. And the alliance between the security bodies and the sides that are now controlling power in Egypt is the one that led to the reactions of which we have seen a sample. Hence, harassment was consolidated by authorities such as Abu Islam and Wagdi Ghoneim, in an inclination pointing towards the dangerous turn taken by the terrorization of the female activists in Egypt at the hands of the regime's powers. This brings back to mind the rapes practiced by the thugs of the Syrian regime and its former friend in Yugoslavia during the Bosnia war.
