Michael J. Totten: Egyptian "Morals"

November 19, 2006

Egyptian "Morals"

Somehow Egypt has startlingly prudish sex laws on the books and at the same time tolerates despicable sexual aggression against women in public.

Egyptian blogger Big Pharoah explains how some of his country's laws work:

If I went out and arranged with an Egyptian girl, the hotel will report us both to the police and we'll get arrested for "indecent acts". In Egypt, the reception has to see the marriage certificate of the Egyptian couple before they can get a double room.
If I hooked up with a foreigner, I will get arrested and she'll walk as freely as she entered the hotel gate.
If I was a holder of a foreign passport and I walked up to the reception desk with 10 Ukrainian prostitutes all wearing G strings, the reception guy will roll out the red carpet for me. Why? Because we're all foreigners and in Egypt foreigners or holders of foreign passports have the freedom to sin while we Egyptians don't.

Meanwhile, Egyptian Sandmonkey reports the following news in the wake of the horrific sexual assault rampages in downtown Cairo:

Yesterday was the second sexual harrassment protest in downtown cairo against what went down in the eid incident. And while the first one passed without incident, the police has cracked down on the second one. On my way there I bumped into Sharkawy, who told me that its nearly impossible to get to the protest: State security cars were everywhere, and police agents were blocking anyone from reaching the protest area, so they had to cancel it. The few activists who were there, however, were harassed, beaten up and arrested.

Posted by Michael J. Totten at November 19, 2006 06:52 PM

Comments

I worry about Sandmonkey and Big Pharoah. They are pretty outspoken. I hope they don't get harassed, or worse, by the Egyptian authorities.

Posted by: semite1973 at November 19, 2006 09:27 PM

While I hope they remain OK, I'm glad to read their reports.

I'm disgusted with the US blank check support for Mubarak -- some 10% of last year's aid should be immediately used in Egypt for Grameen Bank type support of women in business. This US support for peaceful economic change, from below, would be so much better than continued support for Mubarak.

Cops watching rape -- it's a sick sick Islamic culture that is developing, and America will be getting the blame.

Posted by: Tom Grey - Liberty Dad at November 20, 2006 03:15 AM

An Egyptian blogger has just been arrested in connection with publicizing these incidents. Details here.

Posted by: double-plus-ungood at November 20, 2006 09:42 AM

Morals?

Saudis Play Hardball With Blair

Tony Blair has been warned by the Saudis to force British investigators to drop a probe into a multimillion-pound slush fund or face the loss of diplomatic relations. The Saudi royal family has also threatened to stop all interagency intelligence cooperation on al-Qaeda and other counterterrorism efforts (via King Banaian):

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/

====== Jeeze, what Blair has on his plate, eh? And the rest of EU asleep at the switch.

You can easily see how the privilaged Royals of Saudi Arabia wallow in their ill gotten wealth.

You can understand how the scaryist thing to them is democracy. [Power in the hands of the people.]

Logical then that Al-Qaeda are their friends, [anti-democracy].

Logical too, that any intel from the Saudis will be virtually useless. = TG

Posted by: TG at November 20, 2006 10:51 AM

OK, here*s the [ e ]. = TG

Posted by: TG at November 20, 2006 10:53 AM

Tony Blair has been warned by the Saudis to force British investigators to drop a probe into a multimillion-pound slush fund or face the loss of diplomatic relations.

About a year ago, our spoiled Saudi allies were 'warning' us that they would blow up their own oil fields if we threatened them.

If Westerners give into this toddler-style blackmail from these phony 'allies', the sponsors of 9/11, we lose the war - and we'll deserve to lose it.

Posted by: mary at November 20, 2006 06:03 PM

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